Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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 ones who have been sent by the messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, and peace and blessings be upon him and his family. And then, my brothers and sisters, Sheikh recited the famous ayat of Surat Al-Baqarah after Ayat Al-Qursi. And he recited it starting from, But if you look at the ayat before that, Allah said, After Ayat Al-Qursi, Allah said, And after that, Now this ayah, Allah said, The one who denies, turns his back on, opposes, goes against, The Ta'gut, false deities, The one who denies the Ta'gut, False deities, false gods. And by deities and gods, it not only meant some stone image, It is everything which we consider to have power in our lives. And when you see, if you want to see, and ask yourself this question and say, Well, in my life, what has power? What am I giving power to? Then you will see, You will look at and see, what is it that you obey? Who do you obey? So it's not just a question of saying, power, I know my mother is so important, father is so important, But you don't even call them, you don't even go to see them, forget about obeying them, so there's no power. Power is, It's a function of obedience. So we obey those who we believe to be powerful in our lives, because, We feel that by obeying them, they will do something good for us. So Ta'gut can mean laws which are against the laws of Islam. For example, Allah created an entire system of inheritance. So when you die, Allah created a system whereby your wealth goes so much to your wife, so much to your husband, So much to your children, if your parents are alive, then so on to the parents, and so on and so on. Allah created a whole system. Now some Muslims are not happy with that. So they want to change that. So they will write a will, Which is against the Shari'ah distribution system of the Quran. And if you live in a country like this or in any of the non-Muslim countries, Then that will legally, from the perspective of the country, that will work. It is a legal document. But what you have done there is, you have gone against the law that Allah created in the Quran. And therefore you have committed Kufr, And you have left Islam. By writing such a will. Right? So Allah is saying the opposite. Allah is saying the one who does the opposite. The one who says, I have rejected Kufr. I have rejected Ta'gut. I have rejected all false deities. So I give you an example of false deity being a law. In this case, the law of inheritance. False deity can also be in terms of halal and halal. Allah created, He declared some things to be halal and some things to be haram. Some businesses to be halal, some businesses to be haram and so on. All of which are geared towards us. For us to benefit. Because Allah is the most powerful. Nobody can harm Allah. Nobody can benefit Allah. So if Allah for example, prohibited the use of intoxicants, Use of drugs, That is to help whom? One of the finest ways of destroying your life is, Start drugs. It won't take long, very quickly. You will be toast. Allah created laws of behavior with each other. To be dutiful and to be, to serve your parents. So, Between brothers and sisters. Allah said, If there are difficulties, solve those difficulties. Solve the problems. Don't create problems. Aslihu bayna akhawaiqu. Allah said, solve the problems between the brothers. Don't create problems. And so on. But if you go against those, Then you are befriending the Taawud. You are obeying the Taawud. So first thing I remind myself and you, Let us look in our lives and say, Who are the false gods that we are worshipping? Now you might say, I'm not worshipping, But this is worship. Worship is to obey. Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, One man from Najd, His name was Uday bin Hatim. He was from the, He was from the tribe of Banu Tai. And his father Hatim At-Tai was, A very famous, legendary figure in the, In the Jazirat-ul-Arab. And he was very, very famous for his hospitality. He was a very, very generous man. There are many amazing stories of Hatim At-Tai. So Uday bin Hatim was his son. And at that time, later on he became Muslim, Rada-e-Lanu. But at that time, He was a Christian. So he came to Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, And he was wearing a cross, Around his neck. So Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam recited the ayat from Surah, Surah Tauba, Where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la said, Which means, They have taken their Rabbis and their monks and their priests, As, Arbaab min Doonillah. As gods, Instead of, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. So Uday bin Hatim, He said, Ya Rasool Allah, I beg to differ, We do not worship our priests. Ya, Allah said, They have taken them as gods. It means, They are worshipping

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 his companions. And many, many thanks. And then what? My brothers and sisters, Death is not something unique. It's not something that we are shocked with. Death is a part of life. Allah announced and Allah told us, All souls taste death. And indeed, you will be rewarded on the Day of Resurrection. So whoever is shaken by the Fire and enters Paradise has won. And the life of this world is nothing but the death of all living things. Allah says, Every living thing will die. Every living thing will die. And you will surely get your full reward on the Day of Judgment. And then Allah gave us a criteria. Who Goshhzeh An-Nari Wa takiego ah is such a person whom Allah finally mentions to Him and Who will that班 خَرَ tangled in live that other person? Well, strength, So the first thing we do is we make du'a for your mother, our sister. May Allah grant her Jannatul Firdausul Aala bi Ghairi Hisab. May Allah fill her qawar with Noor. May Allah ease the path onwards for her. And may Allah give her and keep her and deal with her in a way that she could never have imagined in keeping with His Majesty and His Grace and His Generosity. Then Rasulullah said in the famous hadith in Muslim, Abu Hurairah reported that Rasulullah said, when the human being dies, when the son of Adam dies, all his deeds, all her deeds come to an end. A'n Abi Hurairah radiallahu anhu qaal, Qaal Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Izaa maata bani Adam intafa' aamaluhoo illa min salaas, sazaqatu jaariya, au ilmu yantafa' bihi, au waladun salihun yad'u lahu. Rawahu Muslim. When a person dies. All deeds come to an end. So the first thing we understand from the ayat which I recited is the criterion of success. It's not how much money you have, which car you drive, what kind of house, none of that. Will you and I be freed from the hellfire and will we get Jannah? This is the criterion of success. Nobody can know for sure, so we keep on trying to be among those people who, inshallah, will be given Jannah. By staying away from everything which Allah prohibited, by doing what Allah told us to do, and by making a lot of istighfar, because no matter what we do, we will make mistakes, we have to. Allah has left the door of tawbah open, we use it. From the hadith, which I narrated, one part of it just... I'll tell you this now and the rest we'll see, inshallah. Rasulullah said, all deeds end with death. So the first thing we understand from that is what? Do it now. Anything good that you want to do, do it now. Don't wait till tomorrow because we don't know, nobody is guaranteed tomorrow. Do it now. Go to the masjid to pray, don't wait for somebody to bring you to the masjid. When you have money, give charity. Don't wait for a time, when? Because of life and things, you will not be able to give charity. Don't wait to do something good, which requires physical effort. If you have not done hajj, go do hajj. Don't wait until now you are so old, you cannot do and your fard is still not fulfilled. Whatever you do. Whatever good you think of doing, do it immediately, don't postpone it. And then Rasulullah said, all deeds end with death except three. Illa thalath. One, sadaqatul jariya. Two, any knowledge, beneficial knowledge. Two, any knowledge, beneficial knowledge. Three, the knowledge that you have been given, you teach it. And three, children who are salihaeen, who are good children, who are pious children, who make dua for you. Now think about that, these three things also refer to the actions of the individual himself or herself. Sadaqatul jariya, who is going to give it? You. My sadaqatul jariya, who must give? I. Ongoing charity, something which continues after you die. Build a masjid, build a madrasaheb, build a school, build a hospital, build a road, build a bridge, whatever is of benefit. It does not necessarily have to be a masjid. Alhamdulillah, this is very good, but it's not restricted to masajid and madaris. Any action of good for Allah. Any action of good for the world. Sadaqatul jariya. Teaching knowledge, you can teach or you can help somebody else to teach. All of that comes as part of teaching. Beneficial knowledge, again beneficial knowledge, obviously religious knowledge is very important. That should be, that is the first part, but that is not restricted to only religious knowledge. It's not only a question of teaching Quran and Hadith. Teaching anything of benefit. And the third one is children who are pious. Whose children are pious? Children of people who are pious are pious. Who will go to the masjid? Your children. When will your children go to t

Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “When the human being dies, his deeds end except for three: ongoing charity, beneficial knowledge, or a righteous child who prays for him.”Source: Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1631 Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Muslim عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ إِذَا مَاتَ الْإِنْسَانُ انْقَطَعَ عَنْهُ عَمَلُهُ إِلَّا مِنْ ثَلَاثَةٍ إِلَّا مِنْ صَدَقَةٍ جَارِيَةٍ أَوْ عِلْمٍ يُنْتَفَعُ بِهِ أَوْ وَلَدٍ صَالِحٍ يَدْعُو لَهُ In Riyaad us Saliheen Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "When a man dies, his deeds come to an end except for three things: Sadaqah Jariyah (ceaseless charity); a knowledge which is beneficial, or a virtuous descendant who prays for him (for the deceased)." [Muslim]. عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قال‏:‏ قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏:‏ ‏ "‏إذا مات ابن آدم انقطع عمله إلا من ثلاث‏:‏ صدقة جارية ،أو علم ينتفع به، أو ولد صالح يدعو له‏"‏ ‏(‏‏(‏رواه مسلم‏)‏‏)‏‏.‏ How to Benefit the Deceased in the AfterlifeThe Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “When a person dies, all his deeds come to an end except three:Sadaqah jaariyah (ongoing charity, e.g. endowment)Beneficial knowledge (which he has left behind and others benefit from it)A righteous child who will pray for him.”(Reported by al-Tirmidhi, no 1376; he said this is a saheeh hasan hadeeth) Supplication - DuaBased on this, the most important thing that the living can do for the dead is supplicate for them. Ask for forgiveness and mercy for them, and for paradise and salvation from the hell fire. Prayers for forgiveness offered by both sons and daughters of the deceased bring great benefits, as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “A man’s status will be raised in Paradise and he will ask, ‘How did I get here?’ He will be told, ‘By your son’s du’aa’s (prayers) for forgiveness for you.” (Reported by Ibn Maajah, no 3660; see also Saheeh al-Jaami’, 1617) CharityAnother thing that may reach the deceased is sadaqah (charity) given on his/her behalf, because ‘Aa’ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) reported that a man said to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him): “My mother has passed away, and if she could have spoken, she would have given something in charity. Will she receive a reward if I give something on her behalf?” He said, “Yes.” (Reported by al-Bukhaari, Fath, 1388) Hajj, Umrah, or FastingOther deeds that may also benefit the deceased are Hajj and ‘Umrah on their behalf, provided the living person has first performed Hajj and ‘Umrah on his or her own behalf already. Adullaah ibn Buraydah reported that his father (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: “While I was sitting with the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), a woman came to him and said: ‘I gave my mother a slave-woman in charity, and now my mother has died.’ He said: ‘You have got your reward, and your right of inheritance has brought your gift back to you.’ She said, ‘O Messenger of Allaah, she still had one month to fast – can I fast it on her behalf?’ He said, ‘Fast it on her behalf.’ She said, ‘She never went to Hajj – can I perform Hajj on her behalf?’ He said, ‘Perform Hajj on her behalf.’” (Reported by Muslim, may Allaah have mercy on him, in his Saheeh, no. 1149)This shows that it is also permissible to fast on behalf of the deceased. Fulfill Vows of the DeceasedIbn ‘Abbaas (may Allah be pleased with him and his father) reported that a woman came to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and said: “My mother made a vow to perform Hajj but she died before she could do it. Can I perform Hajj on her behalf?” He said, “Yes, perform Hajj on her behalf. Don’t you think that if your mother owed a debt you would pay it off?” She said, “Yes.” He said, “Then pay off what is owed to Allah, for Allah is more deserving of having vows fulfilled.” (al-Bukhaari, al-Fath, 7315) Share in a Sacrificial AnimalAnother thing that may benefit the deceased is if his relative devotes a share to him of a sacrifice he offers. When the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) offered a sacrifice, he said: “In the name of Allaah, O Allaah, on behalf of Muhammad and the family of Muhammad” (reported by Muslim, no. 1967) – and the family of Muhammad included both the living and the dead. قال الأصمعي،سمعت أعرابياً يتضرّع إلىٰ الله،بكلمات فقأت عيون البلاغة،و أيتمت جواهر الحكمة،سمعته يقول:كفىٰ بي عزاً أنْ أكون لك عبداً،و كفىٰ بي فخراً أنْ تكون لي ربّاً،*أنت كما أحب فاجعلني كما تُحب. .Al-Asma'i said, I heard a Bedouin Arab praying to AllahﷻWith words that opened the eyes of eloquence,And orphaned the jewels of wisdom,I heard him say:It is enough for me to be your slave,And it is enough for me to be proud that you are my Rabb,You are as I love, so make me as you like. Auto-generated transcript: In t

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, may Allah bless my dear friend and brother, Omar Abdullah, for asking me beautiful questions. He and a couple of others who I truly appreciate because of the very good questions they ask. And the result of those good questions is that they get me to think and hopefully, you know, create content for myself primarily and then for whoever else is listening, which is potentially beneficial for us all, inshallah. So yesterday we were in Boston and we were walking. We were actually at the ISBCC. Big mosque, Islamic center in Boston, which is a beautiful place. Very, very well run. And from there, we had to go and visit a dear friend who's in the children's hospital. He's had this fifth open heart surgery. So I'm also asking you all to, because this goes globally, so I'm asking you all to make a lot of dua. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. sitting there and I asked him so how are you feeling and so on he doesn't shake I recited in the Sunday school graduation ceremony I recited surah they are seen 20 ayat and I have memorized some more so can I recite I think I get I know a 30 I think so can I decide them for you I said so I mean I'm honored yeah and imagine this is this young man he is I think he's about 13 or something as starting of 14 and he is going to open-heart surgery he's obviously has major major health issues and we ask Allah to give him complete cure inshallah and he's not wasting his time sitting there in the in the ICU in the room you know he's not going to be able to do anything he's not going to be able to do anything he's not going to be able to do anything he's not going to be able to do anything he's not going to be in nature any kind of serious injury in his out of bed so then all of that you know so he immediately that's awesome two Sohail Advampal I have66000 something did you memorize the Quran yes half it there I tell you this is a it's it's not just a compliment remember it's MashaAllah may Allah bless them So we were at this masjid And we had to go to the children's hospital And we Umar and I we said Well how do we go Do we take Do we take the Umar Neither of us had a car So He said do we take the metro or what I said let's see how far it is And they said It was about a mile So I said Let's just walk And we walked Lovely day A bit hot and humid But you know Nothing to worry about We passed the Very impressive Frontage of Harvard Medical School as well On the And then we went and met the gentleman Now on the way Umar asked me this question And he said In a marriage How do you deal with conflict I guess this applies to everything It's not just a question of marriage And I said How do you deal with conflict So I told him I said the Way to deal with Conflict is Very simple First and foremost Um Define Both of you sit down Both spouses Sit down And define The conflict So what is the conflict about And I'm a great believer In writing things down So if you Um Write things down It clarifies The matter So I just sit down And define the conflict So now Think about this When you are Defining the conflict And the purpose of that Definition is not Is not to have Say how do I see it How do you You know What is the conflict Come to one definition So whichever Obviously there are two different ways of seeing it Because there are two people involved But Those two people Make sure that you come to Make one definition What is the conflict Now this If you think about this This exercise Itself Is an exercise of Coming together Or collaborating To do something So the focus shifts from What am I saying What is he saying Or what is she saying You know Who is right Who is wrong Who is You know More powerful Less powerful All the usual Political things Political stuff That happens Especially In marital conflicts But You come to this The actual fact Which is What is the conflict about? What is the definition? I said Now once you write The definition down And you say This is the conflict Then you write A second one Which is to say What is the outcome We are looking for And don't just say The opposite of this No You say What outcome Do we want from this? So here is the conflict And what is the outcome That we want What is the solution That we want So ideal solution Again You are not convincing anybody You are not looking You are not looking You are not looking You are not looking You are not saying I am right You are wrong You are not convincing You are just saying Here is an objective exercise And be very clear Be as objective as you can So what is the Solution that I am looking for? So what is the conflict? And definition of the conflict And definition of the solution We say This is the solu

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, and on many, many others. My brothers and sisters, one of the most important hadiths, teachings of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, is the hadith which you hear in almost every Jum'ah khutbah, which is, إِنَّ أَزْدَقَ الْحَدِيثِ كِتَابُ اللَّهِ وَقَيْرُ الْحَدِيثِ هَذِي مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَعَلَىٰ لِهِ وَسَيُّ سَلَّمُ وَشَرُّ الْأُمُورِ مُهْدَثَاتُهَا وَكُلَّ مُهْدَثَةٍ بِدَاعَ وَكُلَّ بِدَاعَةٍ وَلَالَ وَكُلَّ ضَلَاظَةٍ فِي النَّارِ The Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, is reported to have said that the most truthful speech is the speech of Allah, which is the Kitab of Allah, the Holy Qur'an. And the best guidance is the guidance of his Messenger Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. And then he said all corruption and all evil comes from innovations, comes from new things which are introduced into the religion. And he said, كُلَّ مُهْدَثَةٍ بِدَاعَ He said all of these things which are introduced, all of these are bida'at, all of these are innovations. كُلَّ بِدَاعَةٍ ضَلَاظَةٍ فِي النَّارِ All innovation is misguidance. وَكُلَّ ضَلَاظَةٍ فِي النَّارِ And all misguidance is in the hellfire. The reason I'm saying this is because we have to first of all remind ourselves from time to time. It is very important. Allah said the reminder is beneficial for the believers. So we need to remind ourselves. innovations especially in our deen, they come from the knowledge of Allah. For deen, they come in one or two places. One is in weddings, in nikah. We have a simple beautiful system, but people don't like simple beautiful systems. They want to create their own embellishments on those systems. The other place is connected with death. Connected with death. Now our system in Islam is that when a person dies, this person is, the body is bathed. And I won't go into all the details as well. You know what they are and we will do a seminar on that, InshaAllah. So body is bathed. It is wrapped in a shroud in the kafay. Then we pray Salatul Janaza on it, which is the dua of forgiveness. We seek forgiveness for the person who passed away. And then we take him to the cemetery and we place them in the grave. We put some kind of, you know, a piece of wood or something like this to prevent the soil from falling directly on the face. But then we, without a box, without a coffin, without anything, just the cloth, we bury that person. Nowadays they are calling it a green burial. Go look it up. Go look it up, green burial in Google. You will see what they are saying. So somebody sent me this thing. See what a beautiful thing. The body, the body goes back to the earth. I said we have been doing this for the last 1400 years. So don't tell me about it. This is the Islamic method. So when you go there to the graveyard, you do that. You cover up the grave and you go home. But what we do is on the, on the body itself, before Salatul Janaza itself, people put flowers. They put sheets of flowers. Right? And then when they carry the body to the grave, they are chanting something or the other. SubhanAllahi walhamdulillahi wala ila ila ila Allah wa Allah wa al-Ghwar. SubhanAllahi walhamdulillahi wala ila ila ila ila ila as this kind of song. And then when they put the body in the grave, then they will recite Quran. They will recite ayat from Suratul Baqarah. They will recite ayat from Suratul Hashar and so on and so forth. And they will recite Quran and they will stand on this side and recite Quran and on the other side and recite Quran. And it doesn't end with that. Then what do they do? Then on, and I'm talking to you about the customs of our place, which is the subcontinent. I think these are there more or less in some variations in many places. On the third day, the person dies on day, on this day, one day in between, third day. Third day, we have a custom which is called Ziyarat. In the Ziyarat custom, we have people all gathered together in the masjid. And they all read one, one Juz of the Quran. They give them little siparas. They all read, they sit in a circle. They all read one Juz of Quran. And then the Imam has to make collective dua for the person who passed away. We already made dua for the person who passed away with Salah ad-Dujana Zayah. What was that then? Then we got to make one more. And everybody sits together in this Ziyarat. Now in the Arabic word, in the Arabic language, Ziyarat, Ziyarat is an Arabic word which is also used in Urdu. Ziyarat means to meet somebody. So I sometimes tell people that I said, you know, it&#0

Auto-generated transcript:Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. I remind myself that this is also a, or even first I remind it to myself, which is first of all, anyone who wants to be an Imam, and by Imam I mean Imam for one salah, for tarawi, Imam of the masjid, somebody wants to become a khatib, wants to give khutbah, and so forth. So I'm including all of that in this word, Imam. So anyone who wants to be an Imam must beware of what Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wants. And said, if anyone wants to be an Imam, don't give him Imam. If someone wants to be an Imam, do not make him the Imam. Now this advice itself is so completely contrary to our current understanding of leadership. Because our current understanding of leadership is that a person should want to be a leader, a person should then start making efforts. First to become a leader, a person should, you know, canvas for votes, a person should make speeches, he must, he or she must become popular with people, and they must try and somehow force people nicely or otherwise to vote for them and so on. Now again, please understand this, I'm not talking here about developing leadership qualities. This is very important. This is absolutely critically important. Everyone must do that. Learn how to, you know, develop leadership qualities. But wanting to actually become a leader, that's a different thing altogether. You might say, if I develop leadership qualities, then you are saying, don't become a leader or don't want, don't have this desire to become a leader. Then what is the point of having leadership qualities? You know, you might have this question. My submission is that. Developing leadership qualities and wanting to lead people are, I won't say they are contradictory things, but they are definitely not the same thing. They are definitely not something which is, you know, necessarily a progression. Leadership qualities means the simplest and the most important leadership quality is to take responsibility for your own life. So who is a leader? A leader is not somebody who has 5,000 followers or 50,000 followers. A leader is not a head of state. A leader is not a CEO of a company. A leader, in all of these positions, for example, CEOs of companies, heads of state, you have people with very poor leadership qualities. They get there one way or the other. One of the most common and easiest ways in which people become CEOs of companies is because their father was the CEO of the company. Their father is the owner of the company. In family businesses or in businesses where there's a, you know, somebody has a major shareholding, they're usually sons, but sometimes daughters. They automatically become members of the board. They automatically become, you know, CEOs of the company. And with disastrous results, with absolutely disastrous results because they are lousy leaders. They do not have the leadership quality in them. They've never developed those qualities. They are highly entitled. They are people who you just expect people to obey them just because they have the same surname as the owner and so forth. So that position has nothing to do with leadership qualities. I have known ordinary workers who are the most tremendous leaders in terms of their leadership qualities that I've ever encountered in my life. My plantation career in Guyana in South America and in the mining industry, which I worked in. I've seen people, people who have, in many cases, they have literally zero formal education. I mean, forget about getting MBAs or whatnot. MBA is the biggest con job in the world. They have no formal education. I mean, some of them never even went to school. But amazing leadership qualities, meaning people who have confidence, people who take responsibility for themselves and for those around them, people who are willing to invest in themselves. Invest themselves into the lives of other people, help them, people who are very kind and considerate and compassionate. All of these are signs of leadership. All of these are eminently important. They are very important. They must be developed. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about this desire to be the boss, the desire to be the one that everybody, you know, follows. Right. So this is the desire for followership. That's what I mean by this imam. So I say that if somebody has this desire that people should follow me, that I should have authority over people, that I should be able to order people around and so on. If that is the kind of person it is, then they are the kind of people who will say, I want to become imam. I want to become the CEO. And Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, for that reason alone, don't give him imamate. Do not make him an imam because he wants to be. So we are not even going beyond this to say, is he qualified, not qualified? How much Qura

https://youtu.be/ffhy1tIhsZ0 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 Prophet Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him many glories. And after him, my dear brother Umar, may Allah bless you. Umar is one of those who asks good questions and I, that is one of the reasons I love him. I love him for many other reasons. May Allah bless him, he is doing medicine now. And we hope Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala puts shifa in his hand, inshaAllah. And that he is able to help people all around the world. And Umar asked me two questions, as I said, he asked both questions. The first question he asked me was, in terms of marriage, how do you deal with marital conflict? You have a problem with your wife. I have a problem with my husband. What do you do? How do you deal with marital conflict? And the second question he asked was, what is the role of parents in a marital conflict? If there is a conflict, do the parents have a role? Should they have a role? And so on. What is the role of parents? Now, my answer is this, very simple. First and foremost, choose your conflicts. And the criterion of choice is, ask yourself, which is more important, the marriage or the conflict? And do it likewise. The problem happens because people pick the wrong fights. And they get themselves into a situation where even if you win the fight, you ask yourself, what did I really get? And you got nothing. You got nothing. In the process, you could have... You really put yourself in a situation where you would have destroyed or you had a good chance of destroying a perfectly good relationship. Now, that is a very stupid thing to do. That's a very stupid way of leading your life. So pick the conflict. And the second thing, as I already mentioned, is ask yourself, what is more important, the conflict, meaning winning the conflict, winning the argument or retaining the relationship? Sometimes it is a... You have to make the choice. And walking away from an argument is the best thing that you can do. Rasulullah mentioned in my hadith, he said that, I will guarantee a place in Jannah for the person who walks away from the argument, meaning he gives in even when he is right. So the question is, how much more important, because this hadith relates to a general situation, people situation, you and me situation, not necessarily a marriage situation. So if that is being said about this general situation, how much more important it is with regard to marriage? So ask yourself, is it worth arguing? And if it's not worth arguing, then don't argue. Leave it. Let your wife or your husband do whatever they want to do. Nothing is going to happen if they win the argument, if they do what they are doing, and you walk away from there. And I walk away, I don't mean make actually, you know, sort of stage a walkout. I mean just, just give in and say, okay, alhamdulillah, good for you. Do that. No problem. Leave it. Don't make a fuss. Don't sulk. You know, don't play these games. Because these games are, all of them without exception are destructive. Destructive to the relationship. So it's a very stupid thing to play games like that. So walk away and you will have a long and happy marriage. My principle with regard to my marriage is that as long as my wife does not want to do something which is against Islam, against the Sharia, I never say no. And alhamdulillah, I have a wife who will never do that. Her taqwa is better than mine, alhamdulillah. So she will never ask to do or want to do something which is against the Quran and Sunnah, against the Sharia. She is very particular about those things. So I have nothing to worry about. So I just say, yes, whatever you want to do, just do it. The bank book is in her hand. She is a co-signatory of the bank. I almost never go. She does the banking. My principle is very simple. If you want to spend all the money, please go ahead, be my guest. And then we will fast until the next paycheck. Right? So no problem with that. And obviously, we never had a problem, alhamdulillah. We have been married now 40 years. So something is going right, alhamdulillah. So this is the first issue of choose your battles. Choose your conflict. Choose your fights. And don't get into a fight where it has nothing to do with, it has nothing to do with, you know, that you're not going to, you're going to end up damaging your relationship. That is the very stupid thing. Second very important thing, question you asked was, what is the role of the parents? Again, very simple answer. And this is really addressed to the parents. Ask yourself, when you agreed to your daughter, your daughter marrying this man, and when you agreed to your son marrying this woman, did you think they were capable of being married? Did you think they were mature enough? D

https://youtu.be/zTx5mgShXAE Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, I'm walking on Watch Hog Road in Summers, Connecticut. And one of my favorite walks, as a matter of fact, when we arrived here in September 2019, I think it was, if I'm not mistaken, the 23rd or 24th of September. Straight off the plane, I started this walk. I came here, I walked, and I'm not describing for you the route because most of you don't know the route. But for those of you who know that, I went down Watch Hog Road to the end, took a left all the way to Pease Road, up Pease Road. All the way to Hall Hill Road at the cemetery and then back to Hall Hill Road to my brother-in-law's place. And the whole thing was about eight miles. Didn't realize that, how far it was going to be. And I remember there was a guy who was mowing the sidewalk near his house on the way. And I asked him, how do I get back to where I need to be? He said, oh, wow, you are very far away from there. So I said, anyway, I still need to go. So I did. Now, this is a little brook that I have passed over many, many times on these walks. They seem to have done a great job with repairing it and repairing this little bridge here and so on. You can see the brook. Literally, this is the beauty of this place, that the water is literally good enough to drink. Stop by deep. This is maybe about three feet deep or so, at least at this point. Has some fish. Lots of this aquatic greenery and very beautiful scenery. I've been on this walk many, many times. I see many things here. I will show you here some signs of wealth as we go forward. There's a guy who owns most of the upper land here, and he's recently bought himself a plane. And he's built himself an airport, a whole landing strip with a hangar and everything. So anyone who's feeling very rich because you have a nice car, well, there are people who are, for them, a nice car is not something they even think about. The reason I'm saying that is because this is one of the biggest, most confusing, most confounding, most problematic parts of our life. And that is the question of sustenance. The question of rizq. Most of us, if not all of us, at some point in time, we are subject to anxiety about our rizq, about our... about our sustenance. Will I get it? Will I not get it? What happens? And then we have to deal with all that is happening on the global scale. Although having said that, people like to talk about how global markets are going up and down and what... For example, right now, the war in the Middle East, or the impending war, the war that just stopped and we are not sure is it a ceasefire or a complete cessation. It's a complete cessation. It's a cessation of hostilities. Is it a peace? Be that as it may, how will it affect what will happen if the Suez Canal is blocked and so on and so on? A lot of anxiety over this. We spend a lot of anxious hours over this. We spend a lot of time in, frankly, useless conversation because the people who are talking all this will not be affected one way or the other. Because even if the stock market crashes, the only people who are affected are the people who have... stocks. If you don't have any stocks, if you are a mom and pop shop, you're selling something, then somebody is buying those things from you. You are a farmer, you are a carpenter, you are a mason, you are a plumber, you are somebody with a trade. This is the beauty that people don't seem to understand. If you have a trade, if you have something that is saleable in terms of your efforts, then you are a farmer. You are a farmer. You are a mason. You are a plumber. You are a farmer. You are a shepherd in terms of your knowledge. No market crash can ever touch you. But people don't want to learn that. They think it's infradict. How can I be a plumber? So don't be a plumber. Stop. That's nicer for you. Right? Always be somebody else's slave. It's up to you. I mean, you can free yourself by learning a trade or you can be a slave all your life. Anyway, that's a side note. Here's this hangar. This is where the plane, this man's plane is. You can see the heavy equipment that is around here. He's a tobacco farmer. So what I'll show you is the tobacco barns where they dry leaf tobacco. The kind of tobacco they grow is not what goes into cigarettes. This makes cigar wrappers. So this is the tobacco that is used. This is the bulk of the cigar. There's some other tobacco inside. Except that most people are not for cigar nowadays. So those are the hangars. Those are the tobacco drying sheds. They have slats on the sides. So the slats open and air flows through. Very much like what we used to have to dry rubber, sheet rubber in India. What you see here are the tobacco plants, the broad leaf. And what I'm coming up here with is the cornfield. Mace. Mace, corn. Makai. That is what yo

https://youtu.be/IDIR-TMhmAY Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, one of the tendencies that seems to be predominant today is the tendency to correct others. People seem to walk around with this thing as if it's their duty and Allah has sent them to correct others. And no one to convincing will seems to work. We try to tell them, Allah sent us to correct ourselves, to improve ourselves, to make our own better, to learn and practice this deen ourselves. But we do not correct others. In this video, I have already said that let not your correction, meaning the way you correct people, let not your correction, let not the way you correct people be worse than the mistake. It is so surprising. It is so surprising to see how this is happening. This is so common, so common, where you find people over and over again. The way they correct somebody is so awful that people forget about what was said, and they get stuck on how it was said. But this is the tendency, one single word, one single letter. I've seen this happening so many times, where the Imam, for example, is reciting Quran and doing a beautiful job, and thanks to his recitation, you are in khudu, you are able to concentrate, you are able to focus in your salah, and the quality of your salah, alhamdulillah, is better than it would otherwise have been. Okay? And then when the salah is finished, somebody will say to the Imam that that particular ayah in that particular ayah, that particular word that you pronounced was wrong in this way. You know, some issue of tajweed. Now, tajweed is important, there's no doubt about that. But we also know the usool that as long as the mistake is not a major mistake, as long as it's not changing the meaning of the word, and as long as it's not a mistake in Surah al-Fatiha, it's not such a serious mistake. But you focus on that. And the fact of the rest of the recitation is gone from you. Anyone with any grace would have complimented the Khari on the beauty of the recitation, but no. We want to show that I know better, that I am, you know, more knowledgeable than you and so on and so on. May Allah have mercy. And many such examples of how people in their enthusiasm, their correction is worse than the level of the mistake. Let me give you a beautiful example of how correction should be done. Okay? Okay. Okay. So, there was a man in Madinah, an elderly man, who was doing wudu incorrectly. And the two sons of Sayyidina Ali , Hassan and Hussein , they saw this. So they went to the man and Sayyidina Hassan Ibn Ali . He was a very good man. He was a very good man. He was a very good man. He said to the man, he said, uncle, my brother and I are having some disagreement with regard to the way in which wudu should be done. So if you don't mind, we will both do wudu before you. If you can please look at us and see and tell us which one is doing the wudu correctly and which one is making a mistake. And both of them, one by one, they did wudu. And obviously both of them did it correctly. Okay. So, the man realized what was going on. He realized that this was about him, not about them. So he said to them when they finished, he said, you have both performed the wudu wallahi by Allah. Both of you performed the wudu beautifully and correctly. And it was I who was mistaken. And he said, I thank you for your wisdom and your gentleness in teaching me. It is myicing and my salutations to your like without the teachings and rumors and news of one from among themselves going against you. It is in the middle and very deep with all of the μ unanimously. So in Day終 están estas or notargent discuss about what will takes place. It was simple and simple and a long marriage. You tell your wife that you wanted something to give. Now you are like that father, like the moo of the mother who has learnt and your little brother who doesn't know the mother. Your mom doesn't know what he needs. You don't want his belly there. That's your mother's husband to make these conditions difficult for you. lafee, dalalim, mubeen. Before that, they were in ignorance. They did not know anything. So, remember, always, when you get this urge to correct somebody, how you were or how you used to be, before you got whatever this knowledge is. Because, like they say, every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. And think about how you would have felt if somebody had corrected you harshly or in public. Even though what you say may be correct. I'm not disputing that. I'm not disputing that, you know, what somebody tells you is wrong. Even if it's correct. So, before you launch off into this, this thing of, you know, wanting to correct somebody, first of all, ask yourself one question, which is, is this really worth correcting? Is it something that really should be corrected? And if it is worth correcting, then what is the best way to do that? And do it in that best way. And if the ans

Auto-generated transcript:The purpose of Deen is to excel in it. Allah SWT said, Allah did not say to differentiate between who is doing evil and who is doing good. No. The question of evil does not arise. It says, in the good, who does the best? So it's very important for us, especially when we are out in the path of Allah SWT, to ensure that we do, whatever we do, to the absolute best of our ability. And obviously it goes without saying that if you want to do something to the best of your ability, then you have to know how to do it. It doesn't come by birth. It doesn't come by enthusiasm alone. Enthusiasm must never be confused for expertise. They're two different things. In battle, for example, you have an experienced warrior, soldier, you have a soldier, you have a soldier, you have a soldier, you've got an enthusiastic one. The enthusiastic one only dies faster. That's all. Right? Nothing else. He'll never win. There's no way that an enthusiastic soldier who does not have the experience is going to beat a true warrior. Enthusiasm means that he will only die faster. So also in Deen. It's very important for us to ensure that we learn. To give you a chance to learn. So we're going to give you one live example which happened just now. It is not a criticism of you. When you decide, when you narrate a hadith after the Salah, what is the correct way of doing that? You're holding a book in your hand. The first thing it starts from is to say, what are you holding in your hand? So stand up there and say, As-Salaam-Alaikum wa Rahmatullah. Because this is our way. We first greet people. As-Salaam. Qabar al-Khalaam. Say As-Salaam-Alaikum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh. This is a hadith from Muntaqab-e-Hadith. And if it's a book which generally people may not know who is the author, say the name of the author. Yusuf Qandawi Rahmatullah Ali. If you're using Ayatul Salihin, you need not say it because we know who the author is. But if you're using a book which most people may not know, say the author. And then you say, Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. Then you say, Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu wa Salamu Ala Sharifil Anbiya wal Mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasool Allahi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Or some version of that. And then you come to the hadith. This is our way. This is not simply open the book, start the hadith. No. Salam. Then what are you saying? And start with Bismillah. We start with Bismillah. And then we say, Salatuna Salam wa Rasoola Salam. Then you come to the hadith. Now, these are simple things. But this is what I advise you and myself is that when you go out in Jamaat, my submission is create a course of what every person in the Jamaat should learn, depending on the duration of the Jamaat. If it's the sale of the Jamaat, then something which is fit for three days. If it's a chilla Jamaat, then something for 40 days. If it's a four months, then so on so on. Create a course. Go with the course. Now, the course is not for people to become Muftis. No. You will be surprised. I'll tell you two incidents, real life incidents. We had a group of teenagers who went to with one of our Imams to for Umrah. There they are sitting in a mudhakara and another Alim was with them. He said, who was the wife of Sayyidina Ali bin Abi Talib? They did not know. Can you believe it? Teenagers. All of them, all of them, beards. They were going for Umrah so they obviously concerned God to them. They come from families which come regularly to the Masjid. Who is the wife of Sayyidina Ali bin Abi Talib and they don't know. Another one. One of them. he asked the Imam from where he went, he said, Sheikh, you say Rasool Allah, Rasool Allah, what does that mean? Who asked? The kid. This is a teenager, he's not a kid. Really interesting, seriously. Where is the kid? He's past his bulukh, his baliq. He does not know what Rasool Allah means. The reason I'm saying this to you is not to tell you that the people here are particularly ignorant. This is the state of people today. You will be amazed the level of ignorance, of the depth of ignorance. They can't be level. People come here for Salatul Janaza. I can, I can guarantee you there are not five percent of that majma there who know the dua of Maqbara to do for the personal pastor. On the other hand, they will say, is this going to be done in the Shafi'i way or the Hanafi way? My point is, what difference does it make? You don't know the dua of Maqbara anyway. So Shafi'i way, Hanafi way, Maliki way, Ambali way, this way, that way, who cares? So the focus is very different. The focus is on looking for differences. Is it Shafi'i, is it Hanafi, is this? And they don't, I have done a khatira here. I asked them, okay, what are you? I am Hanafi. Very good. What was the name of your Imam? He says, Hanafi. He says I'm Hanafi, he does not ev

https://youtu.be/YfXXUY_NyaI Auto-generated transcript:In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to God, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace and blessings upon him and his family. And after all this, in response to a question I was asked by one of my very dear friends who is doing his 6-year Alimut course in Madrasa. And his question was, he said, I have difficulty remembering technical terms, shuraiz, tala'ats, and I have difficulty remembering masail, and being able to quote them, babatim, quote them extempore, and so on. And I feel bad because after studying all these years, I still can't get myself, I can't remember these things. Now it's of course absolutely understandable, especially with the shuraiz, tala'at, because the words, the names are in Arabic. Arabic is not his. Another point, he has not learnt Arabic itself. So just a matter of, you know, memorizing that or mugging it up, something. So my advice to him and myself and anyone else interested. First and foremost, look at the Quran. Look at and examine your niyyah. Why are you studying this course? Why have you taken the time and the trouble? May Allah bless you and put barakah in this and make it easy for you. Why have you taken the time and the trouble to enroll in a full-time course in Islam, an Alimut course? Why? First ask that question. And if the answer is that I want to become an Alim, I want to be somebody who will be addressed as Maulana. Then make istighfa or make tawbah. And do not go to the next class until your heart is free from this aib, from this very big sickness. Continuously make tawbah, right? It means if you go to the next class, continuously make tawbah. Because this is the worst reason to study Islam. And I'm not saying this by myself. This is the hadith from Rasulullah , where I think if I'm not mistaken, it is Abdullah ibn Mas'ud who quoted this. And he said that the Prophet said, do not study Islam for three reasons. Do not study for three reasons. One is to argue with the fukaha, is to argue with the scholars, is to argue with the jurists. And the second one, reason why you should not learn Islam, is to look good before the sufahaar, to look good before the fools, which includes all of us. People who have little or no knowledge, who try to pretend to be knowledgeable, and general, janta, awamunnas. And the third one he says, to attract people towards you, to attract the eyes of people towards you. Meaning to become popular for Facebook likes and thumbs up and whatever it is. So here is the Nabi telling us specifically why not to study Islam. So you say that I'm studying Islam so I can, you know, in my heart you may not say that, but that I may be called alim, I may be addressed as Maulana Fulan bin Fulan, then that's the worst reason to study Islam. So I said, if you continue to do that, may Allah protect us, you know, we might be answered by Allah swt. So why should you study then? First and foremost, we should study deen, because it is our dire need. It is something which is even more important than food and water. Something which is more important than food and water. You might say, well, you know, what's more important than food and water? I said deen, because, if I do not get food and water for a certain period of time, I will die. That's it. But if I don't know my deen, and I live a long life, because I did not know anything and I didn't make any effort to learn anything, and my long life was spent in disobedience of Allah swt, in rebellion against Allah swt, in all kinds of stuff, and I die, even though I had plenty to eat and drink, even though I lived in luxury, the chances are that I might end up in Jahannam. If Allah does not forgive me. So, therefore, knowing deen is the number one important thing in life for a Muslim. Far more important than food and water, so obviously far more important than whatever professional qualification that you are getting, far more important than becoming a doctor, engineer, blah blah blah, what not. So, why are you rolling? Why am I rolling? Because, this is the most important thing. So, I am going to give this my best time of the day, my maximum effort, I am going to spend money if I need to spend money, and then I will learn this deen, because, number one, this is the most critically important thing for me to learn. So, that's one. Secondly, as far as quoting Vabhati Maan swan is concerned, who said that quoting quoting extreme poor is required? It's not required. There is absolutely no problem if you are asked a question and you refer to a book and you look it up and you answer the question. Now, I know that part of this problem is because of also, may Allah protect us, the way we teach. Because we have taken into our deen-e-mada, that is, the system o

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. All praise belongs 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. May peace and blessings be upon him. Our brothers and sisters, we are in the sacred month of Muharram, one of the four sacred months. That's also the beginning of the new year. We ask Allah to make this a year in which we can gain His Rida. You will notice that I am not saying this will be a year full of peace and harmony and this and that, because all of those are the effects of the Rida of Allah . There is no sense in asking for peace and harmony and prosperity and health and so on, when our life is going in the opposite direction, trying to attract the anger of Allah. You cannot have any of that stuff if Allah is angry. The only way to have peace and harmony and health and wealth and so on and so forth is if Allah is pleased with us. So I don't ask for any of the effects. They will happen. They have to happen. There is no way that somebody who Allah is pleased with will suffer in the sense of this dunya. It may look like suffering even, but that won't be suffering from the sense of this dunya. So we ask Allah to enable us to live lives which please Him . The ayat of Surah Tawbah which I recited before you, the meaning of which is Allah said, Verily the number of months with Allah is twelve. Twelve months in a year. So was it ordained by Allah on the day when He created the heavens and the earth. Four of them are sacred. That is the right religion. Abu Bakr narrated that Rasul said, The year is twelve months of which four are sacred. Three are consecutive, meaning one following the other, which are Dhul Qaidah, Dhul Hijjah and Muharram. And then Rajab, which comes between Juma'at and Shaaban. And this is in Bukhari. Allah said the about this ayat, which is the ayat from Surah Tawbah E Expertly Allah said Allah has chosen I'm sure He said Allah has chosen a special thing, a special people, special creations. He has chosen I'm sure the first creation. From among the angels. He chose kinship entourage of Allah and among all mankind, He chose intercessors of Allah. From speech, he chose the remembrance of himself, which is dhikr. From among the spaces on the earth, he chose the masajid, the mosques. From among the months, he chose Ramadan and the sacred months. So venerate that which has been chosen by Allah, because people of understanding and wisdom respect that which has been chosen by him, Jalla Jalaluhu, and this is from Tafseer ibn Kathir. Abu Hurairah, radiallahu anhu, in a hadith reported in Muslim Sharif, said that Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said the best fast after Ramadan is in the month of Muharram. So Muharram is a month in which Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam encouraged us to fast during this month, as much as you can, as many days as you can, with special significance given to the 10th, which is called the Yawm al-Ashara, the second. Ashura, which is the 10th of Muharram, which is tomorrow. And Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the recommendation is to fast not only that one day by itself, but to fast either the 9th and 10th, which is today and tomorrow, or to fast 10th and 11th, which is Saturday and Sunday. So whatever you like, inshallah. Infiqus Sunnah, Sheikh Sayyid Sadiq says, Abu Hurairah, radiallahu anhu, reported, I asked Rasulullah, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, which salah, which prayer is the best after the fardh prayers? Please note, he's asking after the fardh prayer. There's no question about the fardh prayer being the best of all prayers. Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was asked, which is the best deed? He said to pray the fardh salah at its time. At its time, on time, not delayed and so on and so forth, as soon as the time comes. So fardh salah. So after the fardh salah, which is the best? And Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, the prayer during the middle of the night, which is tahajjud. And then he says, Abu Hurairah, radiallahu anhu, I asked, which fasting is the best after that of Ramadan? Because again, Ramadan is the best. That is the rukun of deen. It's a pillar of Islam. It's something which Allah has ordained for us. And Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, the month of Allah, that you call Muharram. And this is in Musnad Imam Ahmed, in Muslim and in Abi Dawud. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, fasting on the day of Ashura has great merit. I hope that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will accept it as expiation, forgiveness for sins in the previous year. And this is in Sahih Muslim. Abdullah bin Abbas radiallahu anhu narrated, when Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam fasted on the day of Ashura and told the people to fast, they said, Ya Rasulullah, this is a day that is ven

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillah, walhamdulillah, wassalatu wassalamu ala rasulillah, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught us that any gathering in which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not mentioned and in which salutations, salat and salam are not sent on Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will be a means of regret on the Day of Judgment. So we remind ourselves of the ultimate reality. We are here as a family. That it is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who has blessed us to be part of this family. Either genetically or through the institution of marriage. And it is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who aligns hearts together or makes them divert from each other. As Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that the hearts are built. Between the fingers, if you will, the fingers of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And Allah is above all comparisons. So don't imagine it to be fingers. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes people's hearts come together. Aligned in harmony, in resonance. And vice versa. Anyone who seeks guidance from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah. Who is sincere in their seeking of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guides either directly or through the companions and the family that Allah surrounds that person with. Because as human beings we are social creatures. We need companionship. We need support. We need encouragement. There will be moments of weakness. Somebody calls us and pulls us along. To share our joys. To be together in moments of happiness and joy. And also for support in moments that are not as pleasant for us. For our nafs. So we thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. For gathering us. In this blessed gathering of the family. And this is a good opportunity to remember those who have preceded us. Our parents. Who are not with us. Mummy and Baba. My parents. My parents. Yawar's parents. MyThis year has been the best anniversary of chance of yourDDiG's greatness. Today is you live with patience. sorrow, safe and healthy. And grace. and inshallah leaving behind a legacy of deen, of righteousness, of virtue, of good character with their children, with their grandchildren, investing in them not just to give them an economically sound future but one which is moral, which is one of beautiful character one of haya, of modesty, one of concern for humanity one of wanting good for everyone so we thank Allah SWT for gathering us with this concern and in this family may Allah SWT illuminate the graves of all of those who have preceded us and may Allah SWT make their qubur avenues and passages of Jannah because we are to follow them soon and one day these little babies who are sitting here will sit and be talking just like we are talking today and some of them will be sitting here and they will be saying, and some of them will be saying, and some of them will be saying, and some of them will be saying, and some of them may remember us and some of them will not remember us but even if they make dua that those who preceded us inshallah will feel the cool breeze in our graves so what is our responsibility, those who have been given this and who are mature enough is to raise a generation that knows their deen that is righteous, that has concern for all of humanity and for the preservation of this deen because Allah SWT created us to be His ibad, to worship Him as He wants us to be to interact with each other as He wants us to be to transact with each other as He wants us to be and to care for each other as He wants us to be and Allah SWT made us fortunately from this Ummah of Rasulullah SAW the Khairul Ummah which is a very special Ummah and a great honour that we should be proud of that we are Muslims not just Muslims but people from the Ummah of Rasulullah SAW which on the Day of Judgment will compose 80 of the 100 rows of people going to Jannah Musa will see his Ummah from the whole horizon that is going to Paradise and he will say was there anyone else more than my Ummah who will go to Paradise then he will be shown another Ummah that is much bigger and he said this is much greater than your Ummah which is headed for Paradise and he said he will be asked whose Ummah is that he said this is the Ummah of Ahmad and in one narration he said I want to be from the Ummah of Ahmad and he was told no you are a Nabi and a Rasul and you were destined to come much before his Ummah to imagine Ulul Azm of the great honoured Prophets wanted to be part of this Ummah and we have been given this distinction without admonition without asking for it so let us fulfill the responsibility of the great honour and position that we have been given and live the rest of our lives in a way that is in full compliance with our Deen Allah tells us O you who believe submit to Allah completely and come to us as a community that & you alone will be deserving this is from Allah this is not Deen It is Full sub

https://youtu.be/bzav-icohZk Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, there was a very famous anthropologist and American anthropologist archaeologist called Margaret Mead. So, somebody asked her once, they said, when was the beginning of civilization? And she said a wonderful thing. She said, they found a, in one of the archaeological digs, she said they found a skeleton of a person whose femur had broken and joined and healed. So, the femur is the big bone of the leg. She said that is the beginning of civilization. So, they said what has the joining of a femur got to do with the beginning of civilization? So, they said, what has the joining of a femur got to do with the beginning of civilization? So, she said that in the wild, if an animal breaks a femur, that is a death sentence. Because once the big bone of the leg is broken, the animal can't run. And if the animal can't run, that animal is dead. It can't find food, and so either it'll die of starvation, or something will get it. The healing and joining of the femur means that somebody took the leg and went back to the front yard, and it will come back to its former state. So, it's a death sentence. So, the two animals, they were actually in the wild, but they were in a care of that animal and they fed it and they took care of it until it was able to walk again. So in this case it was a human being who obviously suffered some kind of accident and broke his or her femur but there was somebody there who took the time and trouble to take care of them and made sure that you know they were and the femur doesn't join fast it's a big bone so it takes time so they took care of them fed them whatnot until their leg was healed and she said this is the beginning of civilization. So my understanding from this and I submit to you is that civilization is not like what we seem to believe today which they all the fancy sexy technology we have it you have this AI which can do this and this robot which can do that effectively the robot is doing what another human being can do with his eyes shut in a less efficient manner and we are very impressed that this robot did all this just because it's a machine and so forth so I won't go into discussing that but my point is that that's not civilization. Civilization is how we treat each other how we talk to each other how we take care of each other in times of need how we go out of our way to provide for each other in my research for my book the business of family business I spoke to and I have read about many entrepreneurs startup stories and one of the startup stories this man says that she's been with our company for you know god knows from the beginning inception almost number 30th or something else so as to what keeps you there and he's not even the highest paid or anything like that he said what keeps you there is the fact that one day I was away on a sales trip and my child fell seriously ill and he says that my boss, who is the founder of the company, without being asked, he came home, took my wife and my son to the hospital, and then when the child was whatever they had to do, they did it. And the child had been admitted into the hospital and was going to be there overnight and happened to stay there for a day or two. He says, my boss, the founder of the business, he said to my wife, you go home and take care of whatever you need to do at home and I'll stay here. And he stayed awake with the child the whole night, looking after my child. And I was away, selling whatever product I was selling for that company. He said, now, that is debt. As far as I'm concerned, that is debt. And nothing will take me away from that organization. So my submission to you when I ask myself the same question is, what are the legacies that we are creating? Now, the thing is to understand this, that this doesn't happen overnight. That man, whoever it was, didn't do it because he suddenly had a brainwave on that day. He didn't do it to get brownie points. He didn't do it to say, you know, I'm not going to do this. I'm going to let my salesman work wherever he's working. I don't want to disturb the sales. I can make some money. Let me go and spend them on like, no. This is the result of the way he was raised. The way he was brought up. Think about this. Today, when you look at the so-called global leaders we have, and I guess that is one of the convenient things because the way we are today, we can literally look at any of them. Randomly. And you come to the same conclusion. So if you look at them, each one is more evil than the other. Each one is causing more destruction, more harm, more misery, more heartache to innocent people than the other. But think about that. That that same person today, there was a time when he was a toddler. There was a time when he was younger than that. There was a time when he was in a nursery with

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, Allah SWT addressed us, addressed the believers. And he said, which means, he actually said, Allah SWT said, O you who believe. So first thing to think about and reflect on is Allah is addressing the believers. So Allah is not saying you don't believe. Allah is not addressing the Mushrikeen and the Kuffar and this one and that one. People don't believe. No, Allah is saying, O you who believe. Number one. Number two, any ayat which begins with, We know that this is a hukum of Allah. Whatever comes after that is the command. Therefore, it must be obeyed. So what is the command? Allah says, Enter into Islam completely. Now think about that. This is the believers. And remember, the ayat did not come for you and me. When the ayat came, who are the believers there? It's Abu Bakr and Omar and Osman and Ali and Talha and Zubair. All the Sahaba of Rasulullah SAW. These are the best of the best. The first generation, the best generation, the people who learned Islam at the feet of the Prophet. Allah is addressing them and saying, Enter into Islam fully and completely. Right? So therefore, the first thing we understand is that simply saying, My name is Abdul Rahman or saying that, I say to Allah, There is no God but Allah. I say to Muhammad Rasulullah. Or saying that my father and grandfather and great grandfather, What not, I'm a born Muslim. None of this matters. Islam is about me. Islam is about you individually as a person. It doesn't matter who your father, grandfather was. Because if you look at the Sahaba, The first generation, Every single one, One of them was a convert. Every one of them was a revert. It's only Abdul Abid Zubair and the others. Radha Allah anhu. Radha Allah anhum. And then, of course, The grandchildren of Rasulullah SAW. These were the people who were born into Islam. Because both Sayyidah Fatima and Sayyidah Ali were Muslim. And Abdul Abid Zubair, His father Zubair bin Awam and his mother Asma bin Abi Bakr. They were Muslim. But other than that, The first generation, The first generation who came, There was nobody. I mean, every single one of them was a revert. So it doesn't matter whether my ancestors and my extended family, Whether they are Muslim, non-Muslim. What matters is me. So I need to look at myself. You need to look at yourself and say, Have I entered completely into Islam as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wishes me to do? As Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded me to do? Right? So that's the first question to ask yourself. Then Allah continued in the ayah. Allah said, See the beauty of the, The Bayan of the Quran. Allah said, Allah did not say don't follow shaytan. Allah did not say don't go, Don't go with shaytan. Allah said don't follow the footsteps of shaytan. Khutuwat. Now, What is the meaning of saying don't follow footsteps? When you're talking about footsteps, What are you looking at there? Small to the big. Eh? Small to the big. Small to the big. Okay. What else? The path. Paths, actions. No, just physically. If I say, Hudaifah is there, right? So supposing I tell you don't follow Hudaifah's, Don't follow Hudaifah. That's one thing. Don't go with Hudaifah is one thing. Don't follow his footsteps means, Where is Hudaifah? Is he there? The same direction. He's going. Is he physically there? No, he's not. Exactly. The first thing, First thing to understand is the only time you're going to say, Don't follow the footsteps of so and so, Is when the person himself is not there. If the person is there, You won't say don't follow. You'll say don't follow him. You won't say, You won't talk about footsteps. Here's the guy in front of you. Follow him. Don't follow him. Whatever. Right? But the moment you're saying don't follow footsteps means, That the person is not there. Now, What does it mean? Therefore, If I follow the footsteps of Shaitaan, Whose responsibility is it? Yours. Shaitaan is not even there. I can't say he took me. He did. He is not there. How is he? Right? His footsteps. I chose and I decided that I wanted to follow the footsteps of Shaitaan. And I chose to do that when Allah told me don't do it. Just imagine how serious is this matter. La tatabbu qutwa di Shaitaan. Then Allah confirms and He says, Truly, Shaitaan is your worst enemy. Adaw mubeen. He is an open enemy. Not hidden. He is not coming out of nowhere. We know who Shaitaan is. We know what he represents. We know what he represents. Right? Now, today, May Allah have mercy on all of us. If you look at the problem, The general problem of the Muslims. Right? It is not that we, May Allah have mercy, It is not that we have become atheist, Or we deny Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, Or we deliberately go and do something which we know to be, No. We also come and do something which we

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 Messengers and Prophets, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and his companions. From Abado. One of my very good and dear friends asked me a question on behalf of his friend. He said, my friend, he's asking, he says, I believe in God. But why do I need religion? I believe in God. So I believe in Allah. But why do I need Islam? For what? Why do I need Islam? I believe in Allah. Why do I need religion? So let me take it a step further to answer him. Because this is a question that might be in the minds of many people. It's not only him. Let me take it a step further. And the step further I want to take it is You say, I believe in God. I believe in Allah. Why do I need religion? So I will say to you that you believe in Allah. You don't even need to believe in Allah. First, take that, take from there. You do not need to believe in Allah to be a Muslim. in Allah. So don't believe in Allah. There are lots of atheists in the world. They're not getting cancer. They're not getting COVID. They're not getting paralyzed. They're not dying. They're living happily, right? Lots of atheists. So why do you need to believe in God? Second point, you might say, well, I am an honest, decent, ethical, moral human being. I will not lie. I will not cheat. I will not fornicate. I will not run away with somebody else's wife. I will not murder. I will not use foul language because I will not use drugs. I will not drink alcohol, right? Because to do all of these things, I don't need to have some threat of Jahannam or some, you know, enticement or reward of Jannah to do that. This is a decent way of doing things. I don't need to have some threat of Jahannam or some, you know, of living in this life. And between you and me, I know, I know many people, including atheists in this country and other countries who are among the most beautiful people that I know. Absolute integrity. I will trust them with my life without a second thought. But they're not Muslim. They're not anything. They don't believe in God, nothing. So why do you need to believe in God? Why do you need to believe in God? Why do you need to believe in God? Why do you need to believe in God? Why do you need to believe in God? Why do you need to believe in God? Why should you believe in God? think about this because these are things, that is the reason why, I'll come to the answer to this, but that is the reason why, we have this very loose attitude towards religion. But because we really don't understand the significance, the importance of it. So let me tell you why? Isn't this crashed into knowledge? Okay. Isn't this iron "...zythNoR..." Isn't this iron... Isa saying, Kanchan? Isn't this iron... Isa saying, Kanchan? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us why. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, أَمَّا يَتَسَاءَلُونَ عَنِ النَّبَيِّ الْعَظِيمِ أَلَّذِي هُمْ فِيهِ مُخْتَلِفُونَ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ In Surah An-Naba, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, What is all this argument? What is this big fighting? Somebody says there is a day of judgment. Somebody says there is no day of judgment. Somebody says you will be resurrected after you die. Somebody says no resurrection. I become mud and dust and what not. What is all this argument? What is this argument about the Nabail Azeem, about the great news, the great day, the great, you know, Nabal? What is this argument? Allah said, You will find out. Definitely you will find out. ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ And then, see the beauty of the Bayan of the Quran. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is now telling you why you should believe in God, in Allah, and why you need religion. And it's not for these reasons. It's not because to be a nice human being, to be honest, to have a good marriage, to be successful. No, no, no, no, no. For this you don't need God. You don't need religion. For this you need a brain. You need to stop being stupid. Right? You need to stop being stupid. Simple as that. Get some intelligence. Get some, make your brain work for a change. You don't need God and religion for this. Allah is saying now, Allah is showing us. So what does Allah do? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala draws our attention to the world that we live in. To the world that we live in. To the world that we can see around us. I walk in Ashley Reservoir. I see the beautiful water. I see the trees. I see that yesterday I see, I saw deer walking on water. Now there is actually a video of that deer walking on water. If you don't believe that, I'll show it to you. What people don't know is there is a path there, which got covered with water. I know bec

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 hearts of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family. And peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family. Fahima Badu, my brothers and sisters. One of the things that is very commonly known and reported about the way the Sahaba, Ridwanullahi alaihi wa ajma'in, used to sit in the presence of Rasulullah . Two things that were the hallmarks of their manners, or three things rather. One was that they would sit as close to the Prophet as they could. So right up in front of the Mimbar, as close to the Prophet . To the extent that in the famous Hadith Jibreel, after mentioning the appearance of Jibreel , the first thing he says is that he came and he sat with his knees touching the knees of Rasulullah . Now just think about that. Not only does that show how close he would have been to the Prophet , but it also shows that the only, if you think about it, the only way you can sit facing somebody with your knees touching his knees, is when you are sitting in a position of Tashahud. Right? You are in that position when we sit in Tashahud, kneeling down. So this is the respect. And Jibreel is the Prince of the Malaika. He is the head of the Malaika. He is himself a Rasul of Allah . That is the reverence for Rasulullah and obviously for what he represents. Because this is not only love for the individual, it's love and respect for what he represents as the Rasul of Allah . He is the Messenger of Allah . So in our context today, it is the reverence that we need to have and show with respect to what he said, with his Hadith, with respect to what he brought, which is the Kalam of Allah himself . So the first thing that is mentioned about the way the Sahaba used to sit was that they sat very close to the members. They didn't sit on the edges of the circle. They didn't sit on the edges of the Masjid. They definitely didn't sit with their back to the Masjid. They didn't sit on the edges of the Masjid. They definitely didn't sit with their back to the Masjid. backs to the wall of the masjid and their legs extended out you know towards the khibla and towards the position of rasulallah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam they definitely didn't do that so people who do that which is the norm seems to be in this country should find the dalil for this what is your dalil for sitting in the masjid when there's no uzar right it's not as if you're an old man and your back won't keep you up so you need some support for your back in that case you sit in a chair but you sit with your back to the wall with your feet extended in the direction of the khibla and we have the shelves which are full of mushafs the quran right in the same place so your feet are extended towards the quran your feet are extended towards the khibla your feet are extended in the face of the teacher the face of the khatib the face of the alim the face of the imam the face of the imam i mean how evil and how disgusting and how ill-mannered is that but we find this is common we find children sitting like that so-called children because these are children with beards so these are you know young adults uh they are not even some are teenagers some are beyond being teenagers and tragedies we also see their parents sitting like that and my question is especially the parents the children some of these youngsters were born here but especially the parents not a single one of them was born in this country so you were born in a country where if you did that somebody would literally beat you probably so you desire you were raised to show respect to the kitab Allah to show respect to the imam to show respect to the masjid so what happened to that how come you don't practice it anymore and you have not taught your children to practice that anymore how terrible terrible terrible is that so that is the first thing sitting in a respectful position sitting close close to the member, close to the speaker, close to the teacher. Second one is which is reported about the Sahaba was they sat absolutely still. They didn't fidget. They didn't fiddle. They didn't move around. They didn't do the equivalent of what we see the whole time, which is pulling out your phone and, you know, with your face in the phone. Obviously, they didn't have phones. But the point is that they didn't do any of that. They sat absolutely still. And the narrator of the Hadith, he says that they sat so still that birds could perch on their heads and the bird wouldn't fly away because the perch moved. So they sat so completely still. And the third thing which is mentioned about them is their attitude of complete and total respect. They spoke almost. They spoke in whispers. They definite

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wassalamu ala ash-shaytani anbiya wal-munsaleen. Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi salam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. From now on, my brothers and sisters. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in Surah Al-Hujurat. A'udhu billahi min ash-shaytan al-rajim. In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Ya ayyuha alladhina amanu la tuqaddimu bayna yadehi allahi wa rasulihi wa attaqullah. Inna allaha sami'un alim. Ya ayyuha alladhina amanu la tarfa'u aswatakum fawqa sawti al-nabi'i. Wa la tajharu lahu bilqawli kajjahri ba'dikum li ba'd. Anta habata amalukum wa antum la tash'urun. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said which means, O believers. Do not proceed. Do not go ahead in any matter. Ahead of the decree of Allah and his messenger. Do not proceed in any matter before a decree from Allah and his messenger. Which means, wait for what Allah said and his messengers have said. And then do it. Don't precede that. Don't try to preempt that. And fear Allah. Surely Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing. And then Allah says again. Allah repeats this word of command. O believers. Do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Nor speak loudly to him as you do to one another. Or your deeds will become null and void while you are unaware. You will not even know but your deeds will be wiped out. Now, what is being taught here? If you see this beautiful. The Hadith of the Holy Quran. Is the issue of Adab. The issue of respect. An attitude of deep and great respect. For Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and his Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So, my question to myself is, why is this so important? Why is it so important that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, not only is He commanding the believers, which means inshallah us, to lower our voices and not speak loudly to the Rasul, like we do amongst ourselves? What's so important and why is that? And the answer to that is, that for everything, to benefit from everything, there is a system, there is a method, there is a way. If you want to benefit from that system, you have to follow that way. Otherwise, you will not be able to benefit. The way of benefiting from Islam is through adab, through respect, deep and abiding respect in the word of Allah and in the teachings of Muhammad Rasulullah. And if you don't do that, then we cannot benefit from Islam, we cannot benefit from the kitab of Allah, we cannot benefit from Islam. We cannot benefit from the teachings of Rasulullah . Now think about this, that Allah is saying, if you raise your voice above the voice of the Nabi , Allah will wipe out your deeds. What does that mean? If somebody lands on the Day of Judgment, and may Allah protect us from being that person, and you land up there on Jai'f Judgment, you spent your whole life doing all kinds of good stuff, you went for Hajj many, many times, you gave a lot of sadaqah, you prayed, you did all kinds of good things. But when you reach before Allah , nothing is there, and your book of deeds is blank, because you did not show the respect for Rasulullah , which was his due. Now, what happens to somebody who has no deeds? He goes to Jahannam. The Prophet said, I am the one who has no deeds. I am the one who has no deeds. I am the one who has no deeds. I am the one who has no deeds. Now, when this ayat was revealed, Sayyidina Omar , he was a man with a very deep commanding and powerful voice. He started, when he would then, after this ayah was revealed, whenever he would speak to the Prophet , he would mumble. He would speak in a very low voice, and he would mumble. So, Nabi asked him, what's wrong with you? Why are you speaking like this? And he discovered that he had put pebbles into his mouth. And he said, Ya Rasulullah, Allah revealed this ayah that if my voice goes above your voice, then I will go to Jahannam. So, I am trying to keep my voice down. Another beautiful narration with regard to this ayah is Thabit bin Khays , who was a chieftain of the Khazraj. And he was a true believer. He was one of the great Sahaba of Rasulullah . After this ayah was revealed, Thabit bin Khays stopped coming to the Masjid of the Nabi . Right? He stopped coming to the Masjid of Rasulullah . Now, so obviously he was somebody who Nabi loved very much. He was a prominent person. So, you know, when he was not there, people missed him. So, Rasulullah asked somebody, what happened to him? Where is he? They said, Ya Rasulullah, somebody went and checked with him. So, they said, Ya Rasulullah, he is in his house. And he is constant. He is constantly crying. The whole time he is only weeping. So, because he says that I speak, my voice is loud. And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala prescribed punishment for somebody who has a loud voice and whose voice goes above yo

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honor of the prophets and messengers, and praise be to the Messenger of Allah, may peace and blessings be upon him and his family, and upon his family and his companions, and on many many things. From Abadu, my brothers and sisters, a very important matter that I want to speak to you about. And that is, somebody asked me this very wonderful question. The question they asked me was, they said that somebody has given a fatwa to say that if you do not own your own house, if you do not own a house, then to buy your first house, it is permissible to use an interest bearing mortgage. Right? The fatwa is, if you don't own a house, it is permissible to, get a house using an interest bearing mortgage. So I thought, let me clarify this once and for all. And for that, the excuse or the logic they have given, they used two terms which are Shari'i terms. One, they said that this is, to own a house is Darurah. To own a house is Darur. Darurah is the Shari'a. Darurah is something which, if you don't have this, if you don't have that, you will perish. Right? If you don't have that, you will perish. So in that case, the Haram becomes Halat. For example, if I don't get dinner today, can I use that to eat something Haram? No. Because if I don't eat one meal, nothing will happen to me. I won't die. But if I am not able to get any food, for say three days, four days, nothing. Not one scrap. So at the end of three days or four days, that's a different level of Darurah, different level of desperation. That's understanding about the word Darurah. The second word or term they used was that, since you are living in Darul Harb, Darul Harb. So I thought, let me explain this to you. And of course, this is recorded, so you can go and listen to it again and again if you like. First and foremost principle to understand is this, that all goodness, all khair, all barakah, all blessing is only and only in the obedience of Allah . Not in disobedience of Allah. So first get this thing settled. Once and for all, settle this in your mind. Don't live in confusion that there is no goodness, goodness in the disobedience of Allah. For example, somebody asked Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam, they said, Ya Rasulullah, if there is some medicine in which there is some alcohol, there is something which is haram, which is not, you know, the whole thing is not alcohol, but Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, there is no goodness in what Allah has prohibited. Period. So there is no goodness in what Allah has prohibited. There is no, no evil in what Allah has permitted. So all goodness comes from obeying Allah and all evil comes from disobeying Allah. That is the first thing which I want you to understand and fit in your mind. Then let me explain the second term which is, this term which is used in the, by the scholars called Darul Harb. Now Darul Harb and so on is not part of any, is not part of the, is not in the Quran and Sunnah, but this is terminology that was later on, created by the scholars. Alhamdulillah, it's good terminology, nothing wrong with that, but you must understand what it means. There are three classifications of states, of countries, three classifications. One is Darul Islam. Darul Islam is a country which is ruled by Muslims according to the Sharia of Islam. Right? Completely everything. The civil law, the criminal law, the law, concerning family law, right? Every single thing in this country is run completely and totally 100% according to the Sharia of Islam. There is no disobedience of Allah which is permitted in that country and that country is ruled by Muslims. This is called Darul Islam. Now I won't comment on, in today's world which country is like this. I'll leave that to, I'll leave you to discover that. Number two is a country in which the country may be ruled by Muslims or non-Muslims, doesn't matter. But in that country, they may have laws which are, some laws may resemble Islamic laws, some laws may actually be Islamic laws, right? According to the Sharia. For example, the criminal law may be according to the Islamic Sharia, but in terms of finance, this country has commercial banks, this country, the government itself borrows money from commercial banks and is paying interest, and it allows commercial banking in the country. Maybe it's got a distillery somewhere, maybe it's got a casino somewhere, maybe it allows this and allows that, maybe it allows the public consumption of alcohol, and so on and so forth. So this country is a mixture of laws, right? But as far as Muslims are concerned, in that country, there are no restrictions on Muslims to follow their own personal law in their lives. So if a Muslim wants to get, wants to pray, alhamdulil

https://youtu.be/8g4Wt9POJOM 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 of Allah be upon the noble Prophet and the Messengers. The Messenger of Allah, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and his family and his companions. May peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and his family and his companions. My brothers and sisters, once again, the Ashley of the Wire. It's a flux of geese. And doing what geese do, which is, if you can see, they have appended themselves to get up the grass and stuff and the weeds at the bottom. And everything, everyone in the universe is engaged in Ahmad, in action. And nobody is sitting still. As they say, in the morning when the sun rises, whether you are a lion or if you are a gazelle, you start running. Because if you don't run, you die. You get eaten or you starve. And that's the secret of success, is start running. Action. I remind myself anew that we talk about the dawah. Of Rasulullah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. But reflect on, think about this. 40 years, for 40 years before he preached a single ayah. Rasulullah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was born in Makkah. He lived in Makkah. He was a toddler and a teenager in Makkah. He was a young man in Makkah. He was in his 30s in Makkah. It's only when he, was 40 that he received the first Wahi. Now during all these years, he lived in a society which was, if anything, more promiscuous, more permissive, more vice-filled, than absolutely anything that we know even today. Because in Makkah of that time, prostitution was not only legal, but it was so common, that we know the hadith of Sayyidina Ayesha Siddique Harad-e-Ranhai. She said that if a prostitute became pregnant, then she would just come out, and she would just point to a man, and say, he is the father of the baby. And the man accepted. No one even contested that. And say, I'm not the father. Now obviously this was before, DNA checks and what not so. You know. No one castigated or criticized the prostitute. You can say, well, how could he do that? Which was accepted or normal. And the reason, the man, whoever it was, was pointed at and accepted, was because, he couldn't be absolutely certain, but it would have been some, this lady was somebody he would have visited. So he said, okay, so maybe it happened. So the point is that, permissiveness and promiscuity was at that level. Alcohol flowed through the society like water. Almost everybody, illa mashallah, there were some of the Sahaba who were not, but otherwise almost everybody was what today you would call an alcoholic. At some stage of alcoholism. To the extent that we have the, the saying and the call of Sayyidina Omar Ibn al-Khattab where he said that if Islam had not come to me, if I had not come to Islam, he said I would have died either because of the effect of alcohol or I would have died in a, what we would call today a bar fight. Heard of, you know, got into a fight because of with other people who were drinking and I would have died. He said Islam is what saved me. So this is how common these things were and this is how, you know, evil society was. In that society, Rasool Allah long before he declared prophethood, got the title, As-Sadiq ul-Ameen. The truthful and the trustworthy. He did business, and he was, he became known as a good businessman. But there were many other good businessmen. So he was, he didn't stand out as the best businessman in Makkah, the businessman who made the most profit, the businessman who accumulated the most capital, the businessman who had the biggest caravans. No. He got identified as the most honest businessman in the world. The businessman with the highest integrity. And that's how he also got the proposal from Saeeda Khadija for marriage because she was impressed with his, not only with his, not just with his business acumen, maybe not with that at all, because she was a very fine businesswoman in her own right. But with his integrity and his sadaqat, his, his title of Sadiq ul-Ameer, it should be noted and remembered that he got it before he announced his prophethood, he got it before he announced Islam, and this remained with him lifelong. To the extent that even when people went against him because of Islam and they planned to kill him and so on, even at that time they had given into his safekeeping, their valuables. And when he left Makkah to go to Madinah, he left with those things and he said return these to their owners because I can no longer take care of them. The point I want to make for myself and you is that to impress Islam upon people, to open the hearts of people to Islam, to open the hearts of people to Islam, you don't always need even the Qarnam of Allah. Many times a simple receipt, a simple business transaction receipt is enough. Naila, forgive us, this is where we fall

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 Prophet Muhammad and upon his companions. My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders. The topic of my khutbah today is marriage in Islam. And there are two reasons for that. One is that this month and next month we seem to have a spate of those who are who seem to be absolutely determined to commit matrimony. So I thought maybe it's a good idea to give them some idea of what it means. And secondly, this khutbah is, and the one in Baitul Salam, is part of a global khutbah for this Jummah on the subject of Islam, which was started by the Jum'ah Talma South Africa. And for the same reason, which is the amount of absolute proliferation of marriages going bad. And marriages breaking up. So this is a very important part. It's not simply essential for the young people that every time they see a sheikh, they say, sheikh, please make dua, I should get married. And then one month later, they say, sheikh, please make dua, I should get married. And then one month later, they say, sheikh, please make dua, I should get married. And then one month later, whatever. Marriage is perhaps the most important relationship that you are likely to enter into in your life, but also the most complicated. So the first thing to get out of your mind is that marriage is simple. It's not simple. It's very complicated. And you can make your marriage and your home a heaven on earth, or a living hell. That choice is in your hands alone. By you, I mean the husband and the wife. Nobody else. It is your choice alone. And it is a choice. So choose wisely because you will have to live with it. Not anybody else. Allah said in His Kitab al-Qur'an al-Kareem, Wa min ayatihi an khalaqa lakum min anfusih, wa min ayatihi an khalaqa lakum min anfusih, And from His verses, Allah said, Allah said in His Kitab al-Qur'an al-Kareem, Wa min ayatihi an khalaqa lakum min anfusih, kum azwajah, li taskunu ilayha, wa ja'ala baynakum mawaddatun wa rahmah, inna fee thalika la ayatin li qawmin yatafakkaroon. In Surah Ar-Rum, Allah said, among His signs, and Allah called this one of His signs, Jalla Shah Anhu, and among His signs is this that He creates for you mates out of your own kind. So that, and Allah is now, mentioning three reasons for this. So that you find contentment, sukoon with them. And then He said, and therefore He puts in that relationship, mawadda wa rahmah, love and mercy between you. Inna fee thalika la ayatin li qawmin yatafakkaroon. And behold in this, there are signs and messages for people, And behold in this, there are signs and messages for people, who receive the blessings of Allah, who reflect and think, people who have intelligence. As I'm sure most of you know, if you don't know, you should be aware that in Islam, marriage is a legal contract. The khutba for the marriage and all of that is icing on the cake. The marriage is valid even if there is no khutba. It's a legal contract between two people in the presence of two witnesses after the payment of mahram. It's a legal contract between two people in the presence of two witnesses after the payment of mahram. The witnesses, the best of the witnesses is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Himself. And the ones making that contract will be accountable to Him. It is therefore essential to understand what they are contracting to do. The ayat of the Quran, which I recited before you, speaks about the institution of marriage and mentions specifically three features that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed it with. Allah used three words in this ayah. The first word that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala used is sukoon. And Allah says, وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ أَنْقَلَقَ لَكُمْ مِنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا لِتَسْكُونُوا إِلَيْهَا And among His signs is this that He creates for you mates out of your own kind, so that you may find sukoon with them. Sukoon is a word which we also use in Urdu. So those of you who know Urdu, you know what it means. In Arabic, in the diacritical marks, the symbols on the letters, which are added to the letters to modify their pronunciation and meaning, they indicate how the letter is to be pronounced. Fatha, dhamma, kathra and sukoon, these are called haraka. The word haraka means the word that is used in the Quran. It is the word that is used in the Quran. Haraka in Urdu, harkat means movement. So fatha, dhamma, kathra shows whether the letter is to be pronounced as A, E or O. Sukoon is the opposite of haraka. Sukoon is the absence of movement. So when there is a sukoon on a letter, that letter is going over. That letter is in the same place. Sukoon is the opposite of haraka. Sukoon is the absence of movement. Sukoon is the absence of movement. Sukoon is the absence of movement. Sukoon Jeffery is you. Sukoon is the absence of movement. Sukoo

https://youtu.be/XL0am60Sq9Q 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 most honorable and most righteous, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon him, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon everyone, and upon everyone. My brothers and sisters, the thought I want to share with you is that idolatry or worshiping of idols is something that changes from time to time in the way of the shape of the idols. Now, I don't mean the idols from being marble statues of Jupiter and Zeus became the stone statues of the Hindus worship and so forth. I'm not talking about that. I'm saying that idol worship is not restricted to icons. It's not restricted to stone. It's not restricted to pictures. It's not restricted to symbols like the cross and others. Idol worship is really something where a person sees benefit or harm in others than Allah and therefore obeys that thing where he sees the benefit and harm instead of obeying Allah . And my dhalil for this is from the Quran where Allah said to the Prophet Have you not seen those who have taken as their ila? Now, Allah did not use any other word. He did not use some other word, you know, more important. Ila is an object of worship. It's a deity. Say, La ilaha illa Allah. There is no deity. There is no one worthy of worship except Allah. Right? We are not saying La Khaliqu illa Allah or La Maliqu. No, we say La ilaha. The one who is worthy of worship. Only and only Allah. Allah used that word with respect to desires. Now, usually we tend to translate desires as, you know, just the haram stuff. Somebody wants to drink alcohol or smoke or vape or whatnot and fornication and this and that. All of those things, yes. But it's not restricted to that. So desire is anything. As I said, my understanding, may Allah protect me if I'm wrong. My understanding is that the Hawa is anything which you give precedence to because you like it over Allah . Now, one of the, to me, therefore, the biggest idol that we worship today as so-called monotheism, is the Prophet. So-called modern society. Is technology. Because for us, technology can do no wrong. Our icons are people who are technology barons. Who have technology companies, who are billionaires in the technology field. They are technology manipulators, not necessarily inventors. Because that's another aspect of this. It's a combination of technology combined with wealth. Because how many people, for example, know the names of the inventors? For example, one of the things that everything or everything runs on is the algorithm. Right? Algorithms, they bring stuff to you and they choose and whatnot. How many people know where it started? How many people even know how the name came to be? How does the name algorithm come from? Where does it come from? I'm not going to tell you. You look it up. So the point I'm saying is that we are not even excited by or we are not even look up to the actual inventors. We look at the Elon Musk's of the world and others who are people who manipulate that technology, monetize that technology and make money out of that technology. Right? I'm not against the idea of that. I mean, if somebody is doing that in a legal way, alhamdulillah, if he makes a lot of money, that's fine. Let him do that. I'm just saying that what do you respect? The reason I'm saying this is because the other day somebody said to me talking about robotic surgery for bypass, hard bypass. So this person said to me, the bypass operation is nowadays being done in such and such a place by robotic surgery. So there is a, you know, non-human thing there, AI. Powered, which is actually doing the surgery. And that is saving a lot of lives. So this robotic surgery is saving a lot of lives. So this was the statement made to me. And again, the statement made to me was one of my, was by one of my dearest friends. And I know that he, may Allah have, bless him and have mercy on him, he's one of the nicest human beings going. He's not committing shirk or something. He just said something. Now there is my belief in life is there is no such thing as said something or just said something. Everything has an origin. It comes out of somewhere. It comes out of where you live. So I will say some things which indicate my core beliefs, my attitudes, my ethics, my values. And I will not say other things because they clash with my core beliefs and so on and so forth. The same thing applies to anybody else. So these, you know, these, these are apparently accidental statements or by the way or in passing, they actually indicate some much deeper issues of what you believe in. And a lot of that belief is not conscious belief. You don't just sit there and say, I have consciously, I have considered all the opti

https://youtu.be/vePIGirtOqM 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 Prophet and the Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah. Peace and blessings be upon him and upon him and upon him and upon him and upon him. Peace and blessings be upon him and upon him and upon him. My brothers and sisters, it so happened that I'm out here in Ashli Yawar that we must see. One of our most favorite places for walk, to walk in. And I have one Omer with me. And he mentioned a book that talks about the wealth of Rasulullah . And the author seems to claim that Rasulullah , and like whatever we have heard and read about him , that he was a very wealthy. person. And it's just that he was very generous. And so the wealth didn't stay with him. And he gave it all away. Now, his generosity of course is beyond question. We know that. The question is, was he wealthy or not? And this book, this person has written. So one has to read that. I don't want to comment on that. But the point I want to say here is the importance of our attitudes, which for the most part get formed and colored very unobtrusively, very insidiously, and you know, in a very unremarkable manner. But they guide and become the filters through which we view the world. Wealth is one of them, which is that we come from a, today we come from a world and a culture which absolutely worships wealth in every sense of the term. We worship wealth. We worship the wealthy. The wealthy are our role models, irrespective of how they, forget about being Muslim or not Muslim, even non-Muslims, they are our role models, irrespective of how they earn that wealth, whether they earn the wealth in ethical ways or unethical ways. I'm not using the terminology of halal and haram because somebody might say, well, you know, they're not Muslim. So I'm saying ethical and unethical, which is applicable across the world. We don't ask any of the questions. We just say, well, you know, who are the role models, so and so. I always remember this. I remember the first time I was in India, I was in India, I was in India, I remember this half amusingly, where one day in our masjid here, I was speaking, I was doing a harasa for our youth. So we had a whole house full of young people and obviously almost every single one of them came from practicing families. Most of them from people who, whose parents come to the masjid at least once a day, sometimes more than once a day. These young people, at least the boys, if you guys see them, many of them come at least once a day. So mashallah, good, good kids, good youngsters. And my question to them, I said, name for me three of your role models. This is the, the reason I described all this in such detail was because to give you the background. So this is a meeting, a gathering in the masjid. And I was in the middle of the masjid, and I was sitting there, sitting in the masjid. The question is asked by the Imam, two people who are practicing Muslims. So I said, name for me three role models. Guess who they named? Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett. Three role models. Now, so I said, well, I appreciate your honesty. I mean, I'm not going to fool anybody. So you didn't say, Abu Bakr, and Omar, and Osman, Rabbi Al-Anuma, Raja Al-Anum. You said who your real role models are. But my question is, now you need to do the next step, which is, you question and say, why are these people role models? So take Elon Musk, for example. Take the, take space, space X. All right. Take Tesla, take anything that he is associated with, because he has this aura of being somebody who is into high technology. Ask yourself one question, which is, did he invent any of those things? And the answer is no. So you are in awe of him for what? So you are in awe of him for the fact that here, here is a businessman who takes something which somebody has invented, converted that into a revenue generating model, and became humongous devils. I agree that that's also a skill. And there is a, you don't need to be an inventor to become wealthy. You need to be someone who is smart in a business sense, who can take an invention from somewhere and convert it into a revenue model. So nothing wrong with that. I'm not criticizing that. But the point I'm making is, therefore, when you say that, you respect him for his technology, that's a lie. You respect him for his wealth. If the same Elon Musk was not sitting on that pile of money, what would you say? I take it a step further and say, Elon Musk's personal life, Jeff Bezos personal life, in terms of their fidelity, in terms of their, you know, Elon Musk does not have an issue of fidelity because he has no wives. Fortunately, man has a wife. Fortunately, married anyway. But with Jeff Bezos, we have that. What do you say about somebody who

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, today we are living in a world where there is a constant escalation of violence and war and strife and all kinds of things and Muslims seem to be in the receiving end of everything. So the question that I get asked, you know, wherever I go is what is the solution? What should we do? If I ask you a question, I say if you have a fire which is happening, what is the fastest way of putting out the fire? The fastest way is to cut the oxygen, right? Throw something over it, an asbestos sheet over it or throw a thick blanket over it or something, cut off the oxygen. It will die off. Similarly, if there is the electric wire, high-tension power wire, if it breaks and falls to the ground, there was a time when they did not have automatic circuit. There was a time when they did not have automatic circuit. There was a time when they did not have automatic circuit breakers. So this wire, live wire would be lying on the ground. Anyone touches it, it's gone. Now they have automatic circuit breakers. As soon as the wire breaks and falls on the ground, the electricity, the electric supply cuts off. So the wire is no longer electrified and it's a life-saving device. Now what are we looking at here? We're saying here that if there is a problem, to solve the problem, you have to go to the root. Why is this problem happening? If you don't go to the root of the problem, you try to keep on solving the problem by looking at symptomatically, it will never get solved. Now what is the root? As far as we are concerned, the kitab of Allah is crystal clear with regard to problem solving. So the first question I ask myself and I ask you to ask yourself is, who can solve our problem? Very simple. Whether it's a domestic problem in your house, whether it is a problem with your children, whether it's a problem in your marriage, whether it's a problem in your job, whether it's a problem in the country, whether it's a problem in the world, who can solve the problem? Right? What is the answer? Allah SWT. Is there anyone else other than Allah who can solve the problem? No. Right? So my submission is, first of all, understand this and make this problem a reality. Make this yakin. Get your... Because I say this, but I don't think we believe it. May Allah have mercy on us. I don't think we believe it. Because if we really believed that only Allah can solve my problem, believe me, Allah would have solved our problems. But I say this because we are, you know, all of us are Muslims and so on and so forth. And I call this my Sunday school answer. Right? This is what we learned in the madrasah, maktab. So we have to give the answer. Who solved it? Allah SWT. Okay, very good. Do you really believe that? So first of all, convince yourself. Do you really believe that Allah said, Nobody can do anything. No one has any power, no authority, no irada, no nothing except Allah. Illa billah. So convince yourself that only Allah and only Allah can solve our problems. Whether it is the smallest to the largest, there is no one other than Allah who can solve our problem. So this is one of the fundamental. Principles of our aqeedah. The fundamental principle of tawheed is that tawheed begins with nafi. Tawheed begins with denial. What is the kalima? What is the kalima? Bolo. La ilaha. La ilaha. Begins with denial. There is nobody worthy of worship. Illa Allah. Then there is isbaat. Except Allah. The same thing could have been said, Verily Allah is the only one who is worshipped. You might say, well, what is that? I will not say la ilaha illallah. I will say, Allah is the only one who is the deity. Who is the deity? Who is? Who is worthy of worship? That's not the kalima. The kalima begins with denial. There is nobody. La ilaha. There is nobody worthy of worship. Nobody. Illa Allah. Except Allah. So the same thing we have to convince ourselves. That there is no God. There is no God. There is no God. There is no God. There is no God. There is no God. Just like there is no's remind myself and you we need to work on this we need to think about it and reflect on it and work on it only then will we make rojo illallah only then will we return to allah only then will we turn to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with the class to ask allah for help now help of allah allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us very clearly very simple principle very simple principle very very simple principle no complication in surah talaq allah said the one who was takwa allah will solve his problems allah did not say he will help him to know allah will solve the one who has takwa allah will remove him and extract him and find a way out for him from his difficulties and this is a blanket statement allah did not say allah will find a difficulty out for him for his political problems but if he's stuck in a spiritual problem you know sorry you can't help you no no no a any proble

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 Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Faith in the and Gentleness of Allah, and the cognizance of Allah. to have dinner. And you say, well, your hotel has a bar. That bar doesn't affect you because you are eating dinner in another room. The bar is in another room. The fact that there is a bar doesn't affect you as long as you're not drinking the alcohol. But in a club, because you're not a shareholder of the hotel, the shareholders of the hotel will be affected by the bar. So if you look at a hotel, there are two kinds of people. One are people who are shareholders. Now, they are affected. If that hotel has a bar, then they are answerable to Allah. Now, many people try to find loopholes. They think they are loopholes. They are not loopholes. They are holes taking you into Jahannam. They say, well, no, no, I'm not. My hotel has a bar, but I don't own the bar. I have, I have leased out that space to somebody. And that person has the bar, they own the bar, they run the bar, and so on. And you might even say, well, you know, even the lease amount, the rental I'm taking from them, I give it away in charity. So I do not benefit. But that's a lie. Because if you do not benefit, why do you have the bar at all? You have the bar because you do benefit. And the benefit you have is that you have allowed Shaytan to fool you and you fooled yourself to say that unless there is a bar, nobody will come to my hotel. And so therefore, you are effectively running a bar. You are running a hotel which is based on the bar. Because you have told yourself that unless I have a bar, people will not come to the hotel. So therefore, I need to have a bar to attract customers. So this bar is that magnet. It is that bait on the side. It is that bait on the end of the hook. And you are the fish on that hook. Because you fooled yourself to say that just because the bar is owned by somebody else, it is halal. It's not halal. It is haram. It is haram. Because the hotel, you own the hotel. But if you go to the hotel as a customer, as I told you, two kinds of people as far as hotels are concerned, shareholders and customers, owners and customers. If you're an owner, all of this, as I mentioned before, if you're a customer, you go to the hotel, bar, no bar, you don't care. You go to the hotel. You go to the hotel. You go to the hotel. You go to the hotel. You go to the dining place, restaurant. You have your food. You go home. You go to the hotel, the gym. You go exercise. You go home. Alhamdulillah, no problem. Because this doesn't affect you. But instead of that, if you had... So if you're not an owner, that's a different thing. Now, a club is different. We're talking about spending in the path of Allah SWT. So the spending has to be... In places, as I mentioned, earning halal, haram and spending, it doesn't help you. The spending has to be wealth, which is halal wealth. Number one. Number two, spending has to be in places which are permissible, which Allah SWT has allowed us to spend it. So the... Very important to keep that in mind. So we earn halal and we spend halal. Now again, I don't want to make a long list of halal places where we can spend. Whatever is halal is halal. I mean, I'm sure we know this. You don't need a list from me to tell you what is halal. May Allah SWT grant us the ability to differentiate between right and wrong. The key th

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, we come to the last question on the Day of Judgment. May Allah protect us from ourselves. In some ways, this is the most difficult one, especially in today's world. And this question is in two parts. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will ask us, what did you do with the wealth I gave you? And by wealth, don't imagine that this means a million dollars or more. Wealth is anything material that Allah gave us. Whether it was a million dollars or whether it was one dollar. The question will be, what did you do with the wealth I gave you? Where did you earn it from? How did you acquire this wealth? And where did you spend it? You might say, well, if Allah is saying, wealth I gave you, why am I being asked, where did I acquire it from? Because this is the thing in which we have been given ikhtiyar. We have been given the choice. The quantum of wealth Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la wrote for us. That is predestined. That is determined. That's not going to change. What Allah has written, Allah has written. That doesn't change because of this or that. But Allah gave us the freedom and the test for us to choose it, to choose to take it from any number of sources, which come to us. Sources which are legitimate and sources also which are illegitimate. And we have been given the choice. May Allah have mercy on us. This is a test. Sometimes the illegitimate choice seems to be much better than the legitimate choice. It's easier. It seems to give us more dividends. And then you will have, of course, the Shaitan and his agents in human form who are called financial advisors. financial advisors and such other nice names, bankers, who will tell you, take this halal wealth of yours and invest it in this scheme. And the scheme is haram. And of course they don't say haram in halal. See here's the scheme, which will give you 50 times the reward of that and reward of that. And look at this person, look at that person. He started as a rickshaw puller and today he owns 20 buildings and this is how he became rich. And may Allah have mercy on us, we fall into this trap. So how did you earn your wealth and how did you spend it? As I mentioned to you, the first and foremost thing to understand is that in all of these themes which I mentioned, which I remind myself and you, the four questions of the Day of Judgement. What did you do with your time? What did you do with your youth? What did you do with your knowledge? And what did you do with your wealth? In all of these four questions, Allah is not, please understand this, Allah is not asking us how much. Allah is not asking us how long did you live? No. Why did you not live for a hundred years? No. Because my lifespan is predetermined. Allah swt wrote for me whatever He wrote for me. 20, 30, 40, 50, whatever. I can't change it. I can't make it longer and I can't make it shorter. So that's one of the questions. Question is, whatever lifespan you had been given, what did you do with it? So it shows us that we don't have the capacity to choose. We don't have the ability to choose. We don't have the capacity to choose the duration of our life, how long we will live, but we have the capacity to choose how we will live. Will we live that life in obedience to Allah or will we live that life in disobedience to Allah? This is the choice we have. Today people try to fool you and say, you know, if you do this, you will have more lifetime and if you do this, your life will be extended. It's nothing extended. Allah swt, Allah wrote, Allah wrote. If you lead a healthy life, if you exercise, you eat right, stay away from substance abuse and so on, you live a life of goodness, so there's no stress in your mind and heart, then you will have the same lifespan, but you will have it beautiful. You will have the quality of your life will go up. And you will have a beautiful life. Of tranquility, of, you know, happiness, good friends and everything else because you will attract good people to yourself and you will live beautifully and you will live back, leave behind good memories. And the contrary, reverse is equally true. Instead of that, you do the opposite, then the opposite. What happens? So it's very important to keep this in mind and say, how did I live my life? And this is the, this is the, this is the, this is the, this is the, this is the, this is the most important thing. That's what we're going to be questioned about. Not how long. Similarly, we will not be questioned about our youth in the sense of why were you not young? No. Why did you die too early? Right? No. Allah gave you youth. How did you spend it? What did you do with it? Similarly, knowledge, Allah will not say, why did you not memorize the entire Quran? Why did you not memorize the books of Hadith and so on? Why did you not memorize the Quran? Why did you not memorize the Quran? W

Auto-generated transcript: As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. So, let's be clear to that person and to you. That what is happening is wrong. What is happening, should not be happening. The best way to do that, is just silence. People are sensitive, and they will understand. If you are silent about something, and then something much be wrong. So, silence. Don't imply that what they're doing is correct. Silence can be just silence, and not such devote in silence. Nobody. You are silent. as in not speaking, silence can also be of walking away from that gathering or, you know, whatever is happening. For example, if you are in a, say you go on to a, say a wedding celebration and suddenly you find people are coming there with music and dancing, get up and walk away. Just leave. Maybe even without taking leave of the host. And if the host notices and asks you, then you tell him at that time. And say it in a nice way. Say, I'm extremely sorry, I can't remain in a place where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is being disobeyed. So I left. Don't say you are a haram khor anyway. Committing haram and you call people and you do this. No, no, don't, don't accuse. Don't accuse, don't blame. This is very important. If you want feedback, adverse feedback to be accepted, put yourself in the place of the receiver and ask yourself, how would I like to receive this feedback? Because this feedback is for my good. And if, if somebody is saying it in a way which is so repulsive, then how do I accept this? How do I accept this feedback? So say it in a way which is, which is humble. Say it in a way where the other person sees the value in it. And the person is not offended. It's not just about semantics. It's because, for example, let me give you a physical, he won't do it, but I'm saying as an example. Supposing before you'd say anything to that person, you slap them hard on the face. And now you're giving them advice. Do you think they will listen to that? Because they are so, they are now so close to you. They are caught up in the fact that they got slapped in the face, the pain of it, the humiliation of it, the disgrace of it, the insult of it, that no matter what you say, no matter how valuable, how wonderful it might be, what you say will absolutely be ignored because the person is simply not capable of dealing with what you did before you spoke. Now, I know you will not physically slap anybody, but it amounts to the way sometimes we correct people. It amounts to that. It amounts to slapping them hard. It amounts to slapping them hard. It amounts to slapping them hard in the face. So don't do that because that has the sin effect of making them immune or shutting them down for whatever good you might be saying. So say it politely, say it nicely, say it with a sense of compassion, you know, and put it to them in such a way that, you know, why would somebody like you do this thing? It's not becoming of you. It's not worthy of you. It's not worthy of you. Allah has made us noble. Allah has given us this wealth of character, which is more important than wealth of money. Why must we destroy that? Why are we squandering that? You know, that kind of thing which shows that you are somebody who is concerned about the other person. You're not just concerned about proving your point. You're not just saying it in a way that you think it's wrong. You're not just saying it in a way that you think it's wrong. You're saying it in a way which is, which the other person finds, you know, compelled to listen to and accept. Adverse feedback especially should be always given with, as I mentioned before, thinking, putting yourself in the position of the receiver. And ask yourself, how would I like to receive this if I were in that position? And say it like that. You know, inshallah, it becomes more acceptable. So it's very important to share knowledge. As I said yesterday, ensure that the knowledge you have is worth sharing. Make sure it's accurate. Make sure that you got it in the right way, with the right depth and so on. And then share it in a way which is conducive, which is beautiful, which is, you know, helpful. Where a person feels that, you know, really, mashallah, this person helped me and they corrected me and I'm so happy that they did that. That's very, very important. That is very important. So, like, for example, I'll give you an example from the Salaf. Hassan ibn Ali Raghaylanu, the grandson of Rasulullah s.a.w. He noticed, an elderly person who was doing wudu incorrectly. Now, wudu is the foundation for salah. So if your wudu is incorrect, then it means your salah is not accepted. Because you're not purified yourself. So it's a very serious matter. But, Sayyidina Hassan is a young person. And this person, other one is a much older person. So how does this young

Auto-generated transcript:We come to the third question. The first thing to remember is that the questions of the grave, the three questions of the grave have to do with our belief, the Aqidah. And the questions of the Day of Judgment have to do with A'maal, with our actions, deeds. The basis of the deeds is the Aqidah. It is the reason you are doing the deed. As we know from the Hadith of Hammurab al-Khattab r.a. Inna ma'al a'malu binniyat. The deed and the value of the deed is based on why it was done, on its intention. So a deed that is done for anything other than the pleasure of Allah, either has no value or it has less value, depending on what it is. Either it has no value or it has less value. Any deed that is done for anything other than the pleasure of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. So very important to remember that. Because normally we see, you know, in here, inna ma'al a'mal as something which is only to do with the reward. But it has to do with also the basic fundamental value of it itself. You say, how's the deed? How does it have any value? And to understand this also, think about this. Many people say, you know, they talk about individuals and so and so who was not a Muslim, but they did so many good things. And they helped people, they were charitable or whatever they were. And what about them? Well, as far as our Islam is concerned, they did good and they will be rewarded. They will be rewarded. They will be rewarded. We just think about all the good deeds that they have done in this life, but before Allah, when they come on the Day of Judgment, what will be in their way is that their actions had not been done for Allah. Their actions have been done for this dunya. They had done these deeds for themselves, to look good, to, you know, be famous, to... Even if it was altruistic to say they did it to help people, it was not a good deed. It is a sin. to help people, so they were doing it for those people. Now Allah will reward them because this is not something which Allah is Al-Adil, Allah does justice always. So nobody, nobody and nobody's actions will get wasted. They will not be wasted. But at the same time, they will not have reward. They will not have the reward from Allah because they were not done for Allah. So the thing to think about, the way to look at it also, another example is if I wash my neighbor's car, you know, I have two neighbors, I wash one neighbor's car, the car will be clean. But I go to the other neighbor and I say, pay me for washing this car. The neighbor will say, well, you know, you didn't wash the car for me, you didn't wash my car. You washed the car for me. You washed the car of the other guy. So why would I pay you? I mean, I applaud you and I think you're a great guy. You're a wonderful neighbor to have because you're washing people's cars and so on. But it's not my car, why would I do that? So it's very important to keep that in mind. That's where the question of the Aqidah. What we believe is central and critical for the acceptance of our deeds. Now, having, understood that what we believe will not save us from doing evil. As a matter of fact, if we insist on doing evil, even after believing the right thing, then it becomes a bigger problem because you will not be able to say, well, I didn't know. But you knew and you believed the right thing. You knew that there is Allah. You knew that Allah is . That He knows your actions. He knows how it works. He knows how evil you are like your parents. He is like you. He knows how evil, all of these things in Yam precedes Jakhshif, because we allow our mind to see that the truth is these words of 말씀. Space is a big�에 ibadahash, ựcان We cannot do evil and northeast completely. Even if we do it, we cannot У�ooo He is there, services. He knows. He is not well. He knows what's in our hearts. Allah subhanala taala is not from what you do. He is unaware of your actions. We know all of this. Yet, we insist on disobeying Allah we insist on committing haram we insist on committing haram chain. Allah is not willing to do this, yet this is wrong. eating and earning and spending haraap. We'll come to that separately. But point being, we do all this. And so then we can't say, well, I didn't know. It was a mistake. No, it's not a mistake. You knew very well what was happening. You knew that what you were doing is wrong. You knew that Allah was watching, despite that you did it. So it is not something that is, you can't get away from that with that excuse. Now, can you still get away from it? Yes, alhamdulillah. As I mentioned yesterday, the door of tawbah and istighfar is always open. And never lose hope in the mercy of Allah, as long as the repentance is sincere. The condition of repentance is that you must feel genuinely contrite, genuinely regretful about what happened. Number one. Number two, never go ba

Auto-generated transcript:We talked about the first of the four questions. Fourth question is two and one. What is the most important thing that we will be required to answer when we stand before Allah on the Day of Judgment? May Allah make it easy for us, inshallah. And as the Prophet said, the feet of the son of Adam will not leave the presence of Allah. Until he answers these four questions. So this is Haqq. This will happen. We ask Allah to help us. Because without the help of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we cannot be successful here. We cannot be successful anywhere in this life or the next. And therefore the help of Allah is something that we seek and we must constantly continue to seek. And so, the second question that we will be asked is, what did you do with your youth? May Allah have mercy on us. Youth is a time of maximum temptation, as well as the ability to fulfill all those desires that we are being tempted towards. Temptation is of two parts. Temptation is of two parts. Temptation is of two parts. There are two kinds. One is the temptation of the nafs, which is our personal desires. And the second one is the temptation that comes from shaitan, whose sworn life goal is to take us to Jainah. Now, how do you distinguish between these two? Temptation that is coming from the nafs and temptation that is coming from shaitan. The way of distinguishing is that the temptation that comes from the nafs is usually for one thing. It's not anything. It's one thing. For example, somebody may be tempted or drawn towards something. Using intoxicants. So, narcotics, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, you know, addictive substances. So, this is the temptation. Now, that particular person who's tempted to do these things is maybe the temptation of women. The temptation of, if you are a woman, then temptation of having boyfriend, right? The temptation of having a wife. Temptation of friends. Temptation of some other kind. You may not be bothered with that, right? You're not particularly interested in that. The interest is... And the draw, the draw and the attraction is for this particular thing. Conversely, it may be somebody who's young man, must have girlfriends. One is not enough, have one in every town. You know, different kinds of things like that. Which are, you know like for example, Guy Mahajan, you know, in Priickers or stole a cab, write History és Kommandi keitaré yang tohi ben krigen. more sexual related but completely turned off have absolutely zero desire to indulge in drugs or alcohol anything like that even the desire is not there there may be sometimes people are tempted to towards their or addicted to you know the television so you have people who in the in the house house the TV runs though all day every day the other people who the TV is not even a temptation you know it simply doesn't they it's not there it's not part of their thing they don't care they don't watch not a temptation today the biggest addiction and temptation is our screens in our pockets cell phones and this has gone to the point of being a disease where it's it's an actual identified disease psychological illness offered of screen screen addiction and may Allah have mercy it looks like there's no one left on the face of the earth was not addicted to this in one way or the other now this is the temptation that come from the tee quest was so difficult but they remember this 바ً و loves love and his question about stunning that particular causation with takes a very significant tool the knowing and then the revelation of comenoo of the thing لل 與 and we why this wish product Là or must have a contrary opinion. And they will argue with scholars, they will argue with other people, they will argue with their parents. Constant arguments, constant fighting, constant creating irritation in the lives of others. This is an addiction. This is also something that comes from the nafs. Temptations that come from Shaitan are not specific. Shaitan doesn't care in which way you disobey Allah, as long as you disobey Allah. So the temptations of Shaitan are of all kinds. So no matter what you do, as long as it is disobedience of Allah, this is for Shaitan, this is for Allah. This is for Shaitan, this is for Allah. This is good. So when you are being tempted, the thing to think about is, what is the nature of this? And then if it is from Shaitan, in any case say, because this is the biggest weapon against Shaitan. And if it's a temptation of the nafs, then ask Allah help in battling that temptation. They say, there are no отправic states. They will deviate from Х ½ acompañ Circuit King via this勇 Deこれは Allah-Arab Siegephin예요. And just like the first level of security, they said that, no matter what you do, I do not allow you not to keep önemli, alternatively, I also, I do some practice of também في هذه، take Wangt Cambridge H1. Amanda Hoekh uh En WHC'hi is something similar,

Auto-generated transcript:We spoke about the three questions of the grave. And as I mentioned to you, the three questions of the grave have to do with our creed, our belief. What do we believe? So the first question is about Allah. The second question is about the whole Deen. And the third question is about Rasulullah . Alhamdulillah, may Allah make it easy for us to pass this test because this is a test that is not voluntary, it is compulsory. Everyone who is born, everyone who lived will die and when they die, they will have to pass this test. And then we go to the Day of Judgement and there there are four questions. And we know from the Hadith of Rasulullah . And the meaning of which is he said that the feet of the Banu Adam, the children of Adab al-Israab will not be able to move from before their Rabb until they answer four questions. And the first of those questions is, what did you do with the time that I gave you? What did you do with the time that I gave you? The second question is, how did you spend your youth? So even in time, all time is not equal. How did you spend your youth? And third question is, what did you do with the knowledge that I gave you? And the fourth one is a two in one question. Where did you earn your wealth from? Where did you earn your wealth from? And where did you spend it? So the first question has to do with life, with time. The second question has to do with youths, because youth is the time when you have maximum desire. You also have the maximum ability to fulfill the desires. You have the strength, you have the power and so on. Third question has to do with knowledge. And the fourth question has to do with earnings. So let us look at each of these. We look at one today. That is the question with regard to time. So I ask you to think about it. What will we answer to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala? If Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says, what did you do with your time? What is the answer? If you take social media alone. You will find that. You will find that. You will find that. Why? Because statistics tell us that the average person, the average person in this country spends up to six hours per day scrolling their phones. Whatever it is, whether it's Facebook or Tailbook or Mohina, whatever, six hours a day. So, the question is that what will we answer? Allah says, what did you lose the time? People say time is money. But just think about that. Supposing you lose $100. And it doesn't have to be $100. If you lose $20, you will feel it. I mean, it won't kill you, obviously, but say my $20 went somewhere. There's some awareness, some sense of loss. I lost $20. And of course, if you lose more, then the sense of loss is more. But what about if you lose 30 minutes? It won't even register anywhere. Although, if you think about that, money is replaceable. You lose it today when you can get it back tomorrow and so on. But time? Once gone, it's gone. It doesn't come back. It doesn't come back. You can't buy it somewhere. You cannot generate it. You can't say, I will make some time like I'm making cryptocurrency or something. No. So, how aware are we of that? Now, the solution is to create a system. Create structure in your life. Structure is the secret of productivity. And that structure is structure if it is followed strictly. That is very important. Because today, nowadays, what's happened is that people have, thanks to apps, you have an app for everything. You name it. Somebody has made an app for it. So, you've got time apps. You've got, you know, food apps. You've got exercise apps. You've got all kinds of stuff. So, you say, I've got this app on my phone and I'm going to, it will tell me, you know, how the day is being spent. Question is, do you follow that? So, you don't need any app. Forget about apps. What I advise is just take a plain sheet of paper, a notebook, and do two things. One is, every night, think about the coming day, tomorrow, and say, what are the three most critical things that I need to do tomorrow? Three most important things. Don't go to sleep until you write it. And write this down. Take a sheet of paper. Write down. Number one, number two. Three most important things that I must do tomorrow. Now, when you say three most important, how will you know which is most important? For that, your own goal should be clear. What is my goal for the day? What is my goal for the month? What is my life goal? This should be clear. Without knowing the goal, how do you, you cannot prioritize. You cannot say what is more important, less important, if you don't know the goal. Importance is based on the goal. Your goal for the day, goal for the month, goal for, make it for the week if you like, but goal for your life. Based on that goal, what are the three most important things that I must accomplish tomorrow? And then at the end of the day, before you go to bed, you d

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-shadab fil anbiya wal mursaleen Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. From Abadu, my brother asked me a question just now. And he said, is cigarette smoking haram? So I answered his question, but before I answer that for you, let me expand this a little more so you understand the principle. The principle of the Sharia as far as things which are prohibited, haram, forbidden, haram. There are two principles. One, everything which is prohibited is intrinsically by itself harmful. Islam does not prohibit anything which has benefits. Everything in Islam which is prohibited is by itself intrinsically harmful. So it is something which even if you did not have a specific rule for that, as a sensible, intelligent, knowledgeable human being, you would not indulge in that, you would not use it because it is harmful. So first principle. Second principle is that when something is prohibited, when something is haram, then everything associated with it is also haram. Right? So this piece, please understand, is very important. If something is haram, if something is prohibited, then everything connected with it is also haram. It's also prohibited. Let me give you an example before I come to cigarettes. Take for example, alcohol. Alcohol, consumption of alcohol, meaning drinking alcohol, drinking alcohol is haram. Drinking alcohol of any kind. Now with alcohol by inference, we also mean anything which is addictive, anything which alters the mind. So all forms of drugs, all forms of narcotics, all of these are prohibited. They're all haram. Number one. Number two, anything which is haram is haram irrespective of quantity. So it is not that you must, that the whole bottle of alcohol is haram. One drop is also haram. One puff on a joint, on a marijuana cigarette is haram. Pork is haram. One gram of pork is haram. One rasher of bacon is haram. One sausage is haram. The whole pig is haram. So irrespective of quantity, it's not the question of how many. It's the question, if it is haram, it's haram. And then I said, everything associated. Now for example, you might say, well, pork is haram. I'm not eating pork. But I have a restaurant in which we serve ham sandwiches and bacon sandwiches. Right? I have a pizza shop and we are selling pepperoni pizza. Is it permitted? No. Even though you are not eating it, you are not allowed to do anything concerning that. You might say, I'm not eating it. I'm not selling it. I'm not buying it. But I have a truck in which I transport pigs. Haram. I have a pig farm. Haram. I have a share in a company which raises pigs. I have not even seen the company. I've not gone anywhere near it. I just, on the road. I have a share. On the share market, stock market, I bought some shares. This company deals in pork products. Haram. Right? Everything do with it. Now I don't think I need to give you more examples. You can figure out your own examples. There are plenty of examples I can give you. Fundamental principle, if it is haram, number one, it is harmful by itself. Number two, it is haram irrespective of quantity. And number three, everything associated with it is haram. Now we come to the specific question which my brother asked about cigarettes. Are cigarettes harmful or beneficial? Go to a doctor, ask him. I want to improve my health. How many cigarettes a day should I smoke? Does any doctor ever tell you you must at least smoke one packet a day, you know, good for your health, good for your life? People may dispute. I mean, first of all, there's no dispute now. There's no dispute now. To say that cigarette smoking causes, there is a long list of stuff. It's not only lung cancer. Lung cancer is definitely there. But even other than that, many cardiac issues, many kinds of issues. Find me one person who said that cigarette smoking is beneficial for you, good for your health. Nobody. So it is harmful. Number two, Rasulullah said, one of the signs of the people of Jahannam will be that, you know, the smoke will come out of their mouth. Now, that does not mean you go and you see somebody smoking, you go and pronounce the fatwa and say, you are from Jahannam. No, that's not your job, right? But why would you want to do something which resembles somebody from Jahannam? The smoking coming out, smoke coming out of the mouth is a sign of the people who are in Jahannam. It does not mean if you smoke, you are from Jahannam. It does not mean you are from Jahannam. It does not mean you are from Jahannam. If you smoke, you are definitely in Jahannam. You know, you are not. Because we come to the last part which I will talk about, Tawbah. But point is, nasty thing to do. And therefore, it is haram because it is intrinsically harmful. It is haram because it resembles something which is nasty, which is people of

https://youtu.be/YCPmM2cP7SA 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 most honorable of the prophets and messengers.Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family,and peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family.And after that, my brothers and sisters,it is very important to have a sense of history.By a sense of history, I mean, who are you in time and who are you in place?Each of us represents and each moment in our life is a time and a place in history.Because a day will come when I will be remembered and you will be remembered.The question to ask is,what do I want to be remembered for?You will be remembered for something.What is that something?What do you want it to be?There will be those in this Ummah of Rasulullah ,who will be remembered for dividing the Ummah,for creating divisions.There will be those who will be rememberedfor creating divisions.For having been silent spectators and watching the fun,when they could have raised their voices to stop the division.They did not do it.They chose not to do it.There will be yet others who will be remembered for fanning the flames,for expanding that division.Flames of hatred and jealousy and envy and enmity.And then,there will be those who will be remembered.Because in the face of all this,they chose to stand for unity.They chose this even when they were sometimes alone.They chose it because they were alone.Because they asked themselves,if not me, then who?If not now, then when?They stood not because it benefited them in any worldly way.They did not do it to become popular or for money or for votes.Or any other reason.They stood for unity because they loved Allah.And they loved Rasulullah ,more than anyone or anything else.Now ask yourself,on the day of judgement,all of these types will stand before Allah.Those who created enmity will be before Allah.Those who fanned the flames will be before Allah.Those who chose to remain silent even though they could have done something positive,will be before, will be stand before Allah.And those who stood for unity,and who stood in the face of Allah,those who stood in the face of all this,they will also be before Allah.Ask yourself,who among these four will be honoured and forgiven?Be with them, be them.That is my message.Because Allah ,He told us about this Ummah of Muhammad ,and about his family and his Prophet .Indeed, this is your Ummah,a one, or two, or three, or four Ummah.One.Indeed, this is your Ummah, a one Ummah.And I am your Lord, so worship.And indeed, this is your Ummah, a one Ummah.And I am your Lord, so be.So as you did in this night,together with your brothers,And, for the rest of mattersWell, at least let's not take an Brotherhood,that you act in카�ara with us.So, here is羽AMA's lesson.After that konnten Allah,come to the ist informational,and humble Hismarkh and the truth of the unquestioning.It is at the first of theister villages,in which we have the Prophet ,for being one because now no cool that mean a hint or cool name in Africa orcool name in Amin Sudan or Suri or Zodio know what is the basis because we areall Indians or Pakistanis or Syrians or Iraqis or Africans no because our Allahis one we are one because Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala who will Waheed allah hadالذي lam yalit what amulet well amia colo moan we are one because Allah is onewe are one because we worship only Allah nobody else had his suburb and whois reminding usAllah subhanahu wa ta'alahimselfand Allah saidworship meand Allah saidthis ummah of yoursis one ummahand I am your Rabbso have my taqwabe concernedonly aboutmy pleasuredon't worry aboutanybody elseam I populardoesn't matterdo people like medoesn't matterwill I becomemasjid presidentdoesn't matterwill I getkicked out of presidentdoesn't matterwhat mattersis Allah pleasedbecause if I becomethe sultan of theSalatinand Allah is notpleasedI will burn in thehellfireis Allahpleasedhave taqwa of Allahand then Allahsubhanahu wa ta'alasaidverilythe mumininare brotherswe are brothersand sistersAllah did not saywe are friendsAllah did not saywe are friendsAllah saidwe are brothersand we are notbrothers becausewe have the same bloodthe same geneswe are brothersbecause we havethe same bloodwe are brotherswe are familywe have quatrewe are brothersand we are friendslike brotherstogetherwe are onebecausewe are onedeenand Allah saidوَأَسْلِحُواReconcile, join.Allah did not say don't have differences.We have differences.Allah knows we have differences.Allah said if there are differences, sit together.Bring the hearts together.Don't fan the flames.Don't go and say something in the ear of Abu Abdullahand turn him against somebody else.Abu Ziyad.Bring them together.But why is Allah saying?If there is no conflict,where is the need for Islam?That's why Allah saidAllah di

https://youtu.be/Omw0PzXGqPY Auto-generated transcript: We are out here walking the rain in Ashley Reservoir.And you can see it's coming down at a reasonable pace.It's not heavy, heavy, but it's still quite reasonable.And I remind myself and I remind you, just think about this.This is where reflection, Tadabbur, is so important.We just think about, okay, rain is falling, I'm getting wet.First of all, nobody dies from getting wet unless you're made of salt.But other than that, nothing will happen to you.Point is not that. Point is, think about this.What are we seeing here?We are seeing here, number one, a substance that is foreign to this earth.A substance that was sent.To this earth.4.5 billion years ago.This is not an exact estimate.This is the estimate of the people who know.That water came to the earth 4.5 billion years ago.In various ways.Through, internally through rocks, which Allah created.Also through tremendous storms.From space.Water came to three planets.Of the solar system.It came to Mercury.Where it instantly evaporated because Mercury is so close to the sun.It came to Mars.Where it froze solid.Where underground froze solid because of the cold.And it came to earth where because of the tilt of the axis of the earth.At an exact angle of 23 and a half degrees.Allah gave it the capacity for water to be held.This is the only material which simultaneously exists in three forms.Liquid, solid and gas.Water vapor, ice and water.4.5 billion years ago.Now, Allah created everything from water.Which he mentioned in the Quran.And then Allah created a self-purification and regeneration system.For this to remain with us so that the goodness doesn't go away.And that is the system of precipitation.So this rain which is falling here is water which was absorbed, which evaporated from the oceans of the earth.And we don't know exactly which oceans.It didn't come from a specific place.But from the oceans of the earth.This water which is now raining down on me and Varanavar who is with me.Evaporated from some oceans or many oceans.And went into the atmosphere.Converted to water vapor.Rose up in the air.Traveled across the globe.Rose up high enough for the vapor to get cold enough.That atmosphere to be cold enough for it to condense.And that condenses.And that condensation is falling on us now as water.The water that was absorbed from the oceans was salt water.Not fit to drink.Impure.The water that is raining down on us.The same water.Rained down on us pure.Fit to drink.Fit to use or whatever you like.Entire purification process happens.And it's the same water being recycled.There's no new water coming to the earth from space.Same water coming to the earth from space.Same water coming to the earth from space.Same water coming to the earth from space.Same water being recycled.Purified and recycled.Comes down to us.SubhanAllahiladheem. SubhanAllahilaykum.How do you thank Allah for this?If you, a person can exist without food.For example three things.Air, food and water.A person can exist without air for about three minutes.A person can exist without food for almost three months.But a person cannot exist without water.For more than three days.After three days, you start getting dementia.The balance of electrolytes in your body changes.And you go mad.And then you die.A very nasty death.In three days. Without food.For a month you're fine.For more than a month you're fine.This is water.Absolutely critical.Comes from Allah .Free.And that's why when you walk in the rain, think about all this.Think about the fact that it's not just rain.You don't say, oh my God, I'm getting wet.No, say, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.Allah is sending this.There's so much, so much blessing in it.And if I didn't have this, what would I do?So interestingly, if you look at the issue of rain,it's interesting how language is influenced by cultureand culture is influenced by weather.Because in the East, in the hot countries,in the tropics, rain is a sign of mercy.Rain is welcome.Rain is something that people look forward tobecause of the heat,because the rain is needed for growing cropsand so on and so forth.And it's a great relief from the heat.And people love the rain.And they make dua for the rain.But if you look at the temperate countries,which is North,then rain is a sign of trouble.Rain is, rain is, it brings sickness.Rain is something which is, you know,not looked up, looked forward to.And like I said, in the English language,say for a rainy day,which means that a day on which you cannot work,a day in which you can't go outbecause you will get wet and you get sick.So a rainy day is a day where you are going to be deprivedof your livelihood and so on and so forth.So if you look at in that sense and apply it to life,then you see that Allah saidAllah saidAllah said that we will test you withwith fear, insecurity, with hunger,with,

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders. Alhamdulillah this year we celebrated Eid al-Adha as one community. Everyone coming together for the pleasure of Allah SWT in fulfillment of His command where He declared Which means the believers are but one brotherhood. So make peace between your brothers and be mindful of Allah so that you may be shown mercy. The result was beautiful where for the first time in the history of Western Massachusetts almost 5,000 Muslims prayed Salatul Eid al-Adha together. I ask Allah SWT to always keep our hearts together and enable us to resolve any differences that may arise from time to time respectfully in the light of the Quran and Sunnah alone. More concerned about guarding the Prophet and the Prophet's family and the Prophet's family and the Prophet's family. The fact that Allah SWT mentions making peace and reconciliation means that conflict is always a possibility. I remind you that conflict is never the problem. It is how we deal with it which can either help us to draw closer or fall apart. It is our choice and we are accountable for it. Allah SWT commanded us to be united and remain together. And He said وَاَتَصِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيًا وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا وَاذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنْتُمْ عَادَاءً فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَسْبَحَتُمْ بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْوَانًا وَكُنْتُمْ عَلَى شَفَى حُفُرَةٍ مِّنَ النَّارِ فَأَنْخَذَكُمْ مِّنْهَا كَذَلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ آيَاتِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ Allah SWT said in Surah Al-Imran And hold firmly to the rope of Allah SWT together and do not be divided. Remember Allah SWT's favor upon you when you were enemies. Then He, united your hearts. So you by His grace became brothers. And you were at the brink of a fiery pit. And He saved you from it. This is how Allah SWT makes His revelations clear to you so that you may be rightly guided. I remind myself and you that Allah SWT commanded us to remain united and not to create divisions and enmity between each other. He did not tell us not to have different opinions or not to disagree. It is about unity, not uniformity. Allah SWT commanded us not to allow such differences to form the basis of dividing the ummah of Rasulullah SAW. He called being divided as being on the brink or edge of a pit of fire and said that it was, He, Jalla Jalaluhu, who saved us from falling into it. We ask Allah SWT to save us from enmity towards one another and thereby falling into the pit of fire. To ensure our material and spiritual safety, it is essential to develop emotional maturity and to be able to keep the collective welfare of the ummah as the goal of all collective decision making. This is not an impossible or impossible. It is an idealistic goal. To encourage us, we have examples of the conduct of the Sahaba, Ridwanullahi Alim Ajmain, who always put the ummah ahead of themselves. Let me quote just one of these finest of examples from the early history of Islam and the Muslims. When Sayyidina Abu Bakr al-Siddiq passed away and Sayyidina Umar ibn al-Khattab succeeded him, almost the first act, that he did was to send a Farman, to send an order relieving Khalid bin Walid of supreme command of the Rashidun Khilafah's army and appointing his assistant Sayyidina Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah in his place as the commander. This order reduced Sayyidina Khalid bin Walid from being commander in chief to private, in one sentence. Imagine you are broken from being the commander in chief. In today's language, you would say, general, of course, maybe field marshal. One stroke, you are now private. You're an ordinary soldier in the army. There's no instance to my knowledge in military history to compare with this. This never happened. You might ask what Sayyidina Khalid bin Walid al-Anu had done to deserve this treatment. The answer is he did nothing. He had not done anything to deserve this treatment. On the other hand, he had the unique honor of having won every battle that he ever commanded. To cap it all, he had the title of Sayfullah from Rasulullah himself. This was so significant that when Sayyidina Umar ibn al-Khattab tried to get Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq to relieve Sayyidina Khalid, on the other hand, he was to be lifted from the supreme command of the army. Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq refused. And he said, I will not sheath the sword that Rasulullah has drawn. Meanwhile, Khalid bin Walid went on to prove himself and conquered all the lands. Go look up a map. He conquered all the lands from the hijaz, including the hijaz, all the way north to the bank of the Tigris. and Euphrates. That is all of Arabia, all of the Levant and all of Mesopotamia. With his victory at Firaz in Mesopotamia, he significantly weakened the Persian Sasanian Empire, which was finally conquered in the Battle of Khansiyah. He lived up to and justified the title that Rasulullah

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 honourable Prophet and the messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. Peace be upon you all. My brothers and sisters, somebody sent me a very nice quote today from Twitter. And that quote was, six months from now, you can have six months of excuses or six months of progress. Six months from now, you will have either six months of excuses or six months of progress. And guess who that depends on? Right? Who does it depend on? Who does it depend on? So my question to myself, and I request you to ask the same question to yourself is, what do you want to do with your time? Because Allah told us very clearly, Allah said, for the human being is only what he works for. Not what he talks about, not what he dreams about, not what he posts on social media about, not what he writes about. What he works for. Talking about work is not work. Posting on social media about work is not work. Dreaming about work is not work. Wishing about work is not work. Telling the world about work is not work. Only work is work. Because a day will come when we will face Malakul Maut. We know that day will come. We do not know when that day will come. But we know it will come. And at that time, we will truly understand the value of time. Not now. Now it all looks like fun and games. Just imagine, this won't happen to you or me, but just imagine, just to get the impact of it. Say Malakul Maut comes and stands in front of you. And Malakul Maut says, I will give you five minutes. Okay? Your time for death is now, but I'll give you five minutes. First question, will you take it or not? Five minutes. Yes or no? Why? What can happen in five minutes? How can your life change in five minutes? Maybe you led a whole life of disobedience to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. You're getting five minutes now before you die. Can that change anything? Yes or no? This is what. Speak. Speak. Speak. Speak. Speak. Yes. How? Forgiveness. Forgiveness. Exactly. In that five minutes, you can weep and cry and make sincere tawbah and Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala promise to forgive. So, we have a chance of getting out. Right? You won't get this five minutes, believe me. Nobody gets it. It is all a lie. But today, you have that five minutes and a string of five minutes. For free. As much as you want. What are you doing with it? If you are going to sit in a Majeed and a Khatera and you're going to joke amongst yourselves, that's a choice. Do it. We are getting used to in this country. I mean, there was a time when I first came here, I used to get very upset. Today, I don't. I ignore. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. Because what I told myself is, why do I care more about your life than you care about it yourself? You want to waste your life? Be my guest. No problem, free. Waste it. I'm not going to waste it. So, what is six months? Six months, I'll tell you. Just one. Six months. Six months, I'll tell you, just to give you one example, right? We walk five miles a day, Mara and myself. Take an average of 30 days a month, because there are 31 days also, just for the sake of calculation. 30 days a month, 680 days. 180 days multiplied by 5 is 900. If we walk six months, 900 miles, you can be in Louisville, Kentucky. You can be in Charlotte, North Carolina. But if you talk about walking 900 miles, you'll still be here. You will walk 900 miles, how? If you walk 900 miles. There's no other way. And of course, walking 900 miles will improve your health, better strength of legs, lower blood sugar, better blood pressure, right? You will be fitter and finer and more energetic and the works. It's also excellent for thinking. If I'm working in my mind about something, I go for a walk. By the time I finish my three, four miles and come back, the thought is clear in my mind. It's a known way of thinking to walk. Today I've talked about Coffee stuffing, drinking coffee. How to get alert while interesting you may realize the difference. You will get�를. Along the way, you won't get to do was to go drinking or 하는 in your head. Try with a new business. If you're eating at three or four meal a day, you won't get very large interest in what you're doing. And you don't want to particularly be independent either. That's when you do to. So present to them La ilaha illa Allah Muhammad Rasulullah. Present to them Tawheed. Begins with Tawheed. If they accept, he didn't say fight with them, argue with them, kill them, you know, debate them, own them on the stage. No, no, no. Present it to them. Invite

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah. My brothers and sisters, that is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala taught us to make dua for guidance to the path, the Siratul Mustaqeem. The path of those who He blessed and not those who incurred His anger or were misguided. Think about this. We make this dua at least 17 times a day when we recite Surah Al-Fatiha in every rakat of every Farsalah. Just the Farsalah is total of 17 rakats. Then of course Sunan and Nawafil and so on and so forth. There's no salah which is valid unless Surah Al-Fatiha is recited in every rakat. And what do we ask? We ask for Hidna Siratul Mustaqeem. We say, O Allah, guide us to the path, the straight path, the path of guidance, the path of righteousness. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accepts. He accepted the dua of Ibrahim alayhi salam and he decreed and said, He is the one who has sent his Messenger ﷺ with right guidance and the religion of truth, making it prevail over all others and sufficient is Allah as a witness. I remind myself and you that the religion is Islam. And this is the religion of every prophet. Every messenger. This was the religion of Ibrahim alayhi salam or Ibrahim. This was the religion of Musa or Moses or Isa or Jesus. This was the religion of Muhammad ﷺ. This was the religion of all the prophets who are mentioned. He is Islam. Submission to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The question to ask therefore is, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accepted my dua. I made dua Hidna Siratul Mustaqeem. Allah accepted that dua and he sent his Messenger ﷺ. But am I following him or somebody else? Let us ask before we are asked. Because that is the first question in our grave. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not only accepted our dua, but he also told us that the way of Muhammad ﷺ, Islam, would become the most preferred and prevalent way of life on earth. Today, we wonder how certain negative harmful lifestyles have become so prevalent and powerful when just a few, few years ago they were despised and kept hidden. That is the power of living your choice with confidence. No matter what it is, if you do it with confidence, the world will accept. If this is possible with negative things, how much more with positive ones? But when the ignorant are confident and the knowledgeable are diffident and apologetic, ignorance will prevail. Remember that when the truth must be spoken, silence is culpable. The Prophet ﷺ and all those who followed him will be our witnesses. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala called the Prophet ﷺ, his blessing on the believers and declared his mission. And he said, Allah said, Allah said, which means indeed, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has done, the believers a great favor by raising a messenger from among them, reciting to them his revelations, purifying them and teaching them the book and wisdom. For indeed, they had previously been clearly astray. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala emphasized two things. The fact that the sending of his messenger, who was also human, is a double blessing. That we got a messenger and he is from among us. And that before the coming of the messenger, sallallaahu alaihi wasallam, the believers had no way, were misguided. This is the most certain evidence that guidance is only in the way of and through Muhammad ﷺ. And all other ways that do not come from him or bypass him are misguided. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala granted Ibrahim alaihi salam his dua, but changed the order of what he asked for, which underlines for us the importance of the sequence of learning. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent Rasulullah ﷺ with four connected duties. These are four progressive stages of learning and guidance. Four steps to Jannah. They are, yathlu walaihim ayatihi, recite, wa yuzakkihim, purify, wa yu'allimuhum alkitab, to teach, wal hikmah, to demonstrate. From the perspective of the audience, of the learners, these four, our four steps would be to listen, when he recites, to submit, when he purifies, to learn, when he teaches, and to practice what he demonstrated. These four are not independent of each other, but are a continuum, like a staircase, which takes you to the top. If we leave out a stage, we will fail. Today, this is our biggest problem. Out of the four steps or stages, we focused on two and almost totally discarded the other two, paying only lip service to them. We focused on the recitation of the Qur'an, and what comes with it, which is hivs of the Qur'an and tajweed. So the lahan, the tune of recitation, memorization of the Qur'an, and the actual method of pronunciation, all of which are important, but we focused on them exclusively. But we ignored taskiyatul nafs wa tarbiyatul akhlak, purification, purification, purification, of the soul and heart and the molding of manners of adab of treating each other of ma'milat of dealing with each other all of this got dumped. Then we focused on the teaching of the book Ulum-ush-shari'ah and we have big mad

Auto-generated transcript:Wолаazibullah khair Tawāq. My respected brothers, sisters, elders. The ayat which I recited for you from Surah Al-Baqarah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, which means, and remember when Ibrahim alayhi salam said, My Rabb, make this city of Mecca secure and provide food, fruits to its people, those among them who believe in Allah in the last day. He, Jalla Jalaluhu, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the glorious and merciful. The magnificent answered, as for those who disbelieve, I will let them enjoy themselves for a while and then I will send them to the torment of the fire. What an evil destination. And remember when Ibrahim alayhi salam raised the foundation of the house with Ismail alayhi salam. Both of them praying, O Rabb, O our Rabb, accept this from us. You are indeed the all-hearing, all-knowing. Our Rabb, our Lord, make us both fully submit to you. And from our descendants, raise a nation that will submit to you. Show us our rituals and turn to us in grace. You are truly the acceptor of repentance, most merciful. O our Rabb, O our Lord, raise from among them a messenger who will recite to them your revelation. Teach them the book and wisdom and purify them. Indeed, you alone are the Almighty, all-wise. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala answered his dua. And made the actions, his actions and the actions of his little family, the actual rituals of worship that are connected with the house that he built. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made that an act of worship that is sufficient to be done once in a lifetime. He caused the multitudes to come to the sacred house from all parts of the earth, using every means of transport with only one desire, to see the house. And to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in its sacred environs. This is real honor where people through the ages, now for over 4,000 years, make the journey that Ibrahim made with his family. And they do what they did. Their actions become the actions, the rituals of a once-in-a-lifetime worship that bestow on them the blessings of Allah. And bestows the honor of forgiveness from all sins. This was the, this was his, Ibrahim alaihi salam's attitude of adab, of respect of huge reverence and submission to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone, abudiyat, where though they were building the Kaaba on the command of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, in the way that he guided them to do it, they didn't take this for granted. And Ibrahim alaihi salam made a dua, begging Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept their work. Rabbana taqabbal minna innaka anta assami wal alim. O our Rabb, accept this from us. You are indeed the all-hearing, all-knowing. To do good deeds, but with the anxiety that they may not be good enough to be accepted, is a sign of Iman. It's a sign of faith. It's a sign of Taqwa. We don't take it for granted. I'm doing good. Allah has to accept. Allah does not have to do anything. This is the opposite. The opposite of that is a sign of arrogance, and probably a guarantee that the deed will not be accepted. Then he, Ibrahim alaihi salam, made dua for a nation of righteous people to be raised, so that they would spread goodness in the land. Let us remind ourselves, we who live in a world of technology, and in awe of its creators and manipulators, and we call them wizards, that it is values, ethics, and morals, that define a civilization, not the tools they use. Today we call the Greeks and the Romans as the civilization of Greece and Rome. They were not civilizations. They were death cults. They were hugely over-militarized nations, whose constant work was war. There's not a single year in over 2,000 years, of Roman rule, that there wasn't a war. That's not civilization. That's breaking things. That's not building anything. Civilization is where you build things, not where you destroy things, not where your greatness is counted by the number of people you murder. Julius Caesar, when he conquered Gaul, which is currently France, there was a, Gaul had a population of 3 million. In one day, Caesar slaughtered 1 million, took 1 million as slaves, and he said to the third million, welcome to Rome. This is history. I didn't make it up. Go read it up. That is not civilization. So civilizations are known by their ideologies, by their values, ethics, and morals. So civilizations are known by their ideologies, by their values, ethics, and morals. All geared towards goodness, building, not destruction. All geared towards goodness, building, not destruction. All geared towards goodness, building, not destruction. They are not known by the tools they use. The pharaoh of Egypt had better tools and more resources than Moses and the people of Israel. But when Allah , decided to destroy the pharaoh, his tools and goals couldn't save him. Neither will all the A.I. in the world, when Allah decided to destroy, neither will all theERS in the world, not even one of

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, we are looking at the third question from the questions of the grave. And the first question was, who is your Rabb? And the second question was, what is your Deen? And the third question is, what do you say about the man who was sent among you? And the answer, of course, is that we say that he was the Rasul of Allah, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, and that we followed him. And then the question will be asked, what did you do? And the answer to that is, I read the Quran. And I believed in it. And I lived according to it. As I remind myself and you again and again, the issue is not knowing these answers now and repeating them or memorizing them and repeating them, but living our life in a way where these answers will come out. But starting withیا. And this was a Milanese. And I am going to start from Iran, now that I have opened this book to you, but I want to start from the person who sent me the question to ask and to tell you a discussion, because I know I must tell you the matter. Alright? Please do comment if you want. Okay. In this regard, we are also cloudy with our camp. Yay! Yay! Yeah. God bless you His Majesty. This is wonderful idea. Do it, boy. Shukar pard naya Jin. See if you didn't get this answer as well. Another said, the answer we know. He was the Rasool of Allah and I followed him. Question to ask ourselves is, is that the truth? Is that the truth? See in life, there are different kinds of ways in which we love the things around us. We love our parents, we love our children, we love the place we live in, we love our language, we love our culture, many things we love. And there is nothing like Allah , but we also love Allah and His Messenger . Now, all the different ways. Things that we love, each love has a requirement, there is a takhaza. The way you love your wife is not the same way you love your mother. You love both of them. But you love your wife in a different way, you love your mother in a different way. You love your wife by being good to her, kind to her, by taking care of her needs and so on and fulfilling her needs. You love your mother by serving her. And there is a difference between taking care of and serving. Today, our problems are because we, for our own self, we flipped it. So we take care of the mothers and we serve the wife. Then we complain. The question is, Allah gave us, we love our children. What is the meaning of loving the children? We also love our cats. We love our cats. We love our cats. We love our cats. We love our cats. We love our cats. We love our cats. We love our cats. We also love our cats or dogs or birds or whatever you keep, pets. Is there a difference between how you love a pet and how you love your child? In most places, there is not. The same, we do the same thing. Feed it. Make sure it is dry. Make sure it is warm. Make sure it is healthy. My job is over. Job is not over. Job is not, that is a job over for the pet, for the cat. for the child. For the child, the job is the tarbiyah of the child. Loving your children means that you will spend time with the children, tarbiyah of the children, training their children, teaching their children, teaching their children not to, while the khatir is going on, not to sit in the masjid with their back to the wall, scrolling on your phones. This is part of the tarbiyah of children. If you are not doing that, it means that you have not done the tarbiyah of the children. So taking care of children means tarbiyah of the children. Taking care of parents means serving the parents. Right? So what is the meaning of loving Allah and loving his Nabi alayhi salatu wasalam? Loving Allah is not simply to say, I love Allah. It's not simply to sing, you know, anasheed, hams of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. A nice voice. That is not love of Allah. That is nice to have. If you do it, you know how to do it, do it. I'm not saying it's haram. It's not haram. But love of Allah is obedience of Allah. Complete and total submission, umudiyat. Umudiyat is the sign of love of Allah and umudiyat is only and only to Allah. There is no umudiyat of anybody else. You cannot have umudiyat of the king or of, you know, of the king. You cannot have umudiyat of the king or of the queen. You cannot have umudiyat, you know, whoever. Only to Allah. So love of Allah is expressed by umudiyat, by complete obedience to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Love of Rasul alayhi salatu wasalam is expressed by the itiba of the Rasul alehi salatu wasalam. So itaat is for both, Allah and Rasul. Itiba is for the Rasul alayhi salam. Because you cannot make itiba of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Itiba is emulation, is to be like him, walk like him, talk like him, and so on. cannot be applied to Allah. Only to the Rasool a.s. Ittiba of the Rasool. This is the it's not again it's not the question of saying oh I am the Ashiq of the Rasool and you know Rasool is no. It's not abo

Auto-generated transcript:We were talking about the questions that we have to answer. And as I mentioned, I remind myself and you, there are three questions that we have to answer in the grave that have to do with our Aqidah, with our creed, with our belief. Then there are four questions that we have to answer on the Day of Judgment, which have to do with our Aamad, our actions. The first of those questions we mentioned and talked about that last night, and that was, Man Rabbuk, who is your Rabb? The second question is, Ma Dinuk, what is your religion? Now, I remind myself and you that there is a difference between Deen and Madhab. There is a difference between Deen and Madhab. A Madhab has to do with rituals concerning worship and with certain issues of halal and hara and so on. Right? A Deen has to do with a complete way of life. So Islam is a Deen. In Islam, we have different Madhabs, which we follow until last. No problem with that. But the Deen is Islam. Allah said, Allah said, With Allah, there is only one Deen. That is Islam. And Allah said, Anyone who comes on the Day of Judgment with any other Deen other than Islam, will be among the losers. He should be rejected. So, very important. Allah said, Today I have completed your Deen. So, I have completed your Deen. Today I have completed your Deen. And I have given you my favor. And I have completed your Deen. Islam is a Deen. Now, therefore, it is very important for us to ensure that we learn and we practice. There is no practice possible. without learning. May Allah have mercy on us. We don't seem to give any importance to learning. Islam, learning about Islam is like learning about... in terms of learning, I mean it's not like learning about anything else because nothing else will take us into Jannah or Jayaan, but Islam will. If you practice Islam, you go to Jannah, otherwise you don't. But in terms of the time, the effort, the focus, it's the same. So just like you can't say, you can't say, well, I will learn cycling by watching some YouTube videos. No. You have to get onto a cycle, you have to get a cycle, get onto a cycle, fall off a few times, learn, get your balance, right? If you are training to be something more complicated than that, cooking for example, or just to be a good cook, you can't say something more complicated than that, say you want to become a physician, a doctor, a surgeon, right? Nobody becomes all these things by watching TikTok videos or by watching some YouTube videos. You do that by giving it your full attention, full time, following a prescribed program under the guidance of a scholar. What is a residency program which you do in the hospitals? It's guidance under scholars. These scholars are called doctors. Okay. You can't say, well, I joined medical school and now I want to do heart surgery on you and please lie down, give me a knife. No. Systematic. But somehow we have a different thinking with our, in the case of Islam. We think that Islam is just, you know, baby listening to a khatira or something, listening to khutbah. All this is good. But these are like the frills. In addition to everything else, I go and sit in the khatira, I listen to a khatira, I listen to a khutbah, I go and listen to a bayaan, and nothing wrong with that. But if this is the only way in which you are getting the, excuse me, don't fool yourself. Do not fool yourself. You will not get the deal like this. You have to apply yourself. Systematic process of study. I'm not even going into, the standards of our Salafi Salihin, of the great scholars of Islam. Because today when we talk about that, it seems like it's some fantasy, you know, like, is it even possible? It is possible. It was possible. They did it. And that's how you and I, we call ourselves Muslims. Alhamdulillah. Abdul Abid Mubarak, one of the greatest of the Tabiur. He said, I learned adab. He said, I learned adab. For 30 years before I touched the subject of Islam. Adab. Just how to behave. How to approach the Deeb. How to approach Islam. 30 years. That's not because he was stupid. Right? He's one of the greatest scholars of Islam. He didn't learn for 30 years because he was dumb. No. That's how long it takes. Your entire life. This is how you raise your children. He didn't say he went to a school for 30 years to learn Islam. No. He said, I learned adab. How? From the way he was raised as a child. Right? Imam Malik Ramatullah Ali. He says, my mother, he must have been about maybe five years old or something. He says, my mother used to dress me up before Salatul Fajr. She would dress me up. She would tie an amama on my head. Little five year old kid. And then she would take him. She would walk with him. She would take him to Majlis. And then she would take him to the mosque. And then she would take him to the mosque. She would walk with him. She would take him to Majlis and Nabi Shaykh. And after Sa

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. And praise be to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his companions. Peace be upon you all. My brothers and sisters, people ask me different questions. Somebody asked me today about the issues of investing in stocks. And say which are halal stocks and different bodies certify certain companies and they have different reasons for certifying companies and all that. So, my answer is very simple. My answer is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, through his messenger Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, gave us a standard. And the standard is seven questions. There are seven questions. Three questions that we will be asked in our grave when we die. And four questions that we will have to answer on the Day of Judgment. So, seven questions. So, my... Advice to myself and you is that when it comes to any decision in life, irrespective, any decision, whether it is marriage, whether it is investment, whether it is which school to go to, what job to take, what to eat, what to drink, what not to eat, what not to drink, anything, you name the question. Anytime you come to a decision point, refer it to the question that concerns that decision. You don't have to look for... look at all the seven questions, but the question with respect to that decision. And if the answer is yes, do it. If the answer is no, don't do it. I'll give you examples. First of all, what are the seven questions? What are the three questions in the grave? Anybody? What is the first question which you will be asked? Okay. First, man rabbuq. Who is your Rab? The malaika are not asking, who is Rabbul Alameen? Who is the creator of the heavens and the earth? They're not asking that question. They're saying, who is your Rab? Right? Man rabbuq. What is the second question? Ma deenuk. What is your religion? What did you believe in? And what is the third question? They will say, what do you say about the man who was sent among you? And that is Rasulullah . Three questions in the grave. All three have to do with aqidah, with our belief. It's not a question of, is it good or bad? Who is your Rab? Who is, what is your deen? Who is your Prophet ? Then there are four questions on the Day of Judgment. One of those questions has two parts. Four questions. What are the four questions on the Day of Judgment? We have the hadith of Musa . He said that the feet of the Banu Adam will not move from before their Rabb Jalla Jalaluhu until they answer four questions. You know, I remember, on a side note, I'll come to you in a minute. I remember seeing, I watched a film which was about a prison. So, in this prison, they have different floors and the corridors are made of steel mesh, very thick steel mesh. And the prisoners, I saw that they were wearing shoes with metal soles. And obviously, when they walk, it makes a huge racket. Bang, bang, bang. I'm thinking to myself, why do they have to have metal soles and so on? And then in the film, there is a fight. And as soon as there is a fight, the prison guard simply goes and throws a switch. And there is a very powerful electromagnet in the mesh. It grabs the soles of the shoes and the prisoners are locked in place. They can't move. They can't move. So, if a guy is running, his feet are locked. He falls flat on his face. He can't move. And I remember this, Hadith of Nabi said, the feet of the children of Adam will not move from before the Rabb until they answer these four questions. What are the four questions? What is the first one? Omri. Omri. First one. Omri. Omri. Omri. First one. Yeah. First one. What did you do with your life, with the time that you spent in this world? Next. Second one. Maa shabaabi. What did you do with your youth? Third one. Hilm. Hilm. What did you do with the knowledge which was given to you? What is the fourth one? Fourth is a double question. Maa lihi. Maa lihi. Maa lihi. Maa lihi. Maa lihi. Maa lihi. Maa lihi. Maa lihi. Maa lihi. Maa lihi. Maa lihi. Maa lihi. Maa lihi. Maa lihi. Asaika maaya. Where did you earn it from and where did you spend it? Four questions. Now, we look at all these individually, inshaAllah, in Qatara. I'm not doing everything today. So, let us look at our lives in the light of these. These are the only things which matter in this life. First and foremost, convince yourself that nothing else matters. The only things which matter are these seven points. If these seven things are good, we are good, inshallah, forever and ever. If these seven things are the problem, we should fix it. Because you don't want to die with that problem. It's as simple as that. So the first and foremost, man Rabbuk, who is your Rabb? Allah . Allah . Is it enough to s

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah we finished the Yawm al-Arafah today. We ask Allah to reward us in keeping with His Majesty and Grace and to grant our duas and to give us the opportunity for this again and again year after year. The people who are in Hajj, they have completed Yawm al-Arafah standing in Arafah and right now they would be in Muzdarifah, they would have finished the maybe even the Tawaf and so on. And Saeed and waiting for Yawm al-Nahar tomorrow for Eid and we also wait for Eid al-Fitr inshallah tomorrow and Eid al-Adha tomorrow inshallah. We ask Allah to help us to celebrate that in a way that pleases His Majesty and Grace. The Hajj is a beautiful journey. We ask Allah to enable us to do it. Those who have not done it. Make it your Niyah that you will do it next year. That is the number one. It's a Rukur of Islam. It's not just something which is just a Faridah. It's a Rukur. And of course obviously it's a Faridah. So it is something which is absolutely critical, must be done at the first possible opportunity. And I can tell you that it is an Ibadah to be done in your youth. Don't wait till you get old to do Hajj. It's very difficult. When you get old it becomes very difficult. But in your youth, it's very difficult. When you are young, alhamdulillah, it's good. So do it in your youth as soon as you can. Right? If you just think about this, when the person... Hajj is a reminder of the entire cycle of life. When a person puts on his Ihram, he is effectively reminding himself that a day will come when that is how he will live this world. In two pieces of glass. Everything he has will be gone from him. Nothing to destroy. Nothing to distinguish him. Whether he is rich or poor, whether he was a king or he was a pauper, whoever he was. Whether he was a scholar or whether he was ignorant, makes no difference. He will go in the same two pieces of glass. Just like when he puts on his Ihram, they all put on the same clothes. There is nothing to distinguish one from the other. Because in the sight of Allah, everybody is equal. And then when he makes Tawaf, he reminds himself that he is equal. He is equal. He reminds himself that this is the house to which Ibn-i-Aim called the other. He invited. Allah said, you call and I will send. And they come from every part of the globe. In every conceivable means of transport. To this day, there are people who are going to Hajj walking. People are going to Hajj on horseback. Three people from Spain have gone to Hajj this year on horseback. People have gone to Hajj walking. I have a friend of mine in Saudi Arabia. He lives in Jeddah. He is a Muslim. He told me his grandfather and three uncles. His grandfather had four sons. So one son, he told him to stay back. He was in Afghanistan in a place called Swat in Pakistan, Swat Valley. So he, grandfather said, one son, stay here with your mother. They will look after the property. The other three sons he took. And they walked from Swat to Makkah. On the way, closer to Makkah. They got attacked by a gang of Muslims. They were very angry. They were very angry. They have a big mouth. I am a robber. Just these four Bhatans, right. All they had were sticks. They slammed the daylights out of the people. Their leader they captured. They tied him up on ropes and they took him to Makkah. And they handed him over to the police. They say who are these? We are safe. We are unjudged. Who are these people? They are trying to attack us. So what happened? This happened. Take them. So the Saudi Government gives them award and all sorts of things. They arrested these ones and they are doing justice to them. So they have a lot of money. So they took them as a court. That is it. They walked and went for Hajj. Until today, there are people who walk and they walk. Right? Sheikh Abdullah was saying his grandfather took one year from Morocco to Mecca and back. He was 22 years old when he left for Hajj. He had no money. So he would go to some place, work a few days, get some money and go further. He took one year to go from Morocco to Mecca. Yeah? He did Hajj and so on, spent one year there. And then he took one year to go back. So he left at the age of 22 and he was back home at the age of 25. So on and so forth. Imagine the life, the memories that these things create. Today we have our heads and our phones. Right? That will be a memory, your cell phone. Get out. Go and look at the world. This is the age. This is the age when you should do these things. Just start. Start walking. Make a plan. Walk. But if you are tied with your, you know, apron strings to your mama and you cannot survive unless mama makes some parathas for you, goodbye, brother. Seriously, I'm telling you, get out of your houses. So when the, when the, the, the Haji, he's making tawaf, he remembers that because this is the house that Ibrahim alayhi salam, Ibrahim alayhi salam built. And even though they were building it

إِنِّي وَجَّهْتُ وَجْهِيَ لِلَّذِي فَطَرَ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ عَلَى مِلَّةِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَنِيفًا وَمَا أَنَا مِنْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ إِنَّ صَلَاتِي وَنُسُكِي وَمَحْيَايَ وَمَمَاتِي لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَبِذَلِكَ أُمِرْتُ وَأَنَا مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ اللَّهُمَّ مِنْكَ وَلَكَ بِاسْمِ اللَّهِ اَللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ “I have set my direction firmly and truly towards Him Who created the heavens end the earth. And never shall I give partners to Allah. Verily, my worship and my sacrifice, my living and my dying are for Allah Sustainer of the worlds. O Allah this sacrifice is from you and is for you.” Bismillah wallahu akbar. Allahumma minka wa ilaika, fataqabbal min … (pronounce the name of the person on whose behalf the animal is being sacrificed). It means: “In the name of Allah and Allah Almighty, O Allah, this sacrifice is from You and for You, accept the sacrifice (pronounce the name of the person on whose behalf the animal is being sacrificed) 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 and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions, and a lot of peace and blessings.All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions,Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions, увид salman 247Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions,Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions,Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his companions,in the case of cattle at least six months old in the case of sheep or goats at least a year oldnow some other things to remember that these are the instructions of rasulullah concerningthe actual act of slaughter it is virtuous for a person man or woman to slaughter the animalwith their own hand but they don't have to do it they can also delegate that slaughter tosomebody else who can slaughter on their behalf a very important thing the act of slaughter itselfand only is the act of worship so you can't say well i am vegan or you know i don't want tosubject some sheep to unnecessary pain and therefore even though i eat you know biryaniand i eat nahryouand I eat everything else throughout the year,all of which has dead sheep in it.On the day of Khurbani,on the day of Yawm-ul-Eid,for the Udiya,Shaitan puts this in your mind and heart and says,no, no, no, don't slaughter the sheep.Why don't I just give this in charity?There are so many people who are deserving.So I will give the cost of the sheep in charity.Please understand,that action would not constitute Khurbani.It is not a substitute for Khurbani.As a matter of fact,it would be an evil intention,an evil action and a sinbecause you are trying to subvertthe deen of Allah subhanahu wa ta'alaby introducing your own version to it.So don't fall into these traps.Now, therefore,try to slaughter with your own hand.If you can't do that,if you are not able to do thatbecause you live in a country where it is not allowedor you live in a place where it's not easyand so on and so forth,or even if you,you don't want to do itwithout condemning itor without saying anything against it,you can delegate it to somebody else.One very, very important thing,slaughter can also be done in other countries.For example,you can send money to some other countryand ask your Khurbani to be done there.But very important to rememberthat your Khurbani is a Khurbani.The slaughter is a slaughteronly if it is done after Salatul Eid.If it is done before Salatul Eid,then it's just a regular slaughter of an animalfor the sake of eating itand it has

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has caused us to be Muslim, be raised as Muslims. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has caused us and granted us, inshallah, and we ask Allah to do that. To grant us Yawm al-Arafah, which here in America will be tomorrow, inshallah. And tomorrow, which is the 5th of June 2025, will be the Yawm al-Arafah in America. As per the sighting of the moon, Abdul Hijjah, which was sighted widely. And this day of Arafah on the 5th of June is based on actual physical sighting of the moon. As per the sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The Yawm al-Arafah, please note the word Arafah refers to the day of Arafah. And when we say Arafat, it refers to the plains of Arafat outside Mecca, where we stand on this day, B meaning the people who have gone for Hajj, they stand on that, in Arafat, the plain of Arafat on that day. So the Yawm al-Arafah is the name given to the 9th of Dhul Hijjah. Please note and understand. This has nothing to do with people standing in the plains of Arafat. This is coincidental. But the day is the 9th of Dhul Hijjah. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned in the Hadith about the first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah, that these are the best days of the entire Islamic year. He said, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, in the Hadith mentioned in Musnad Ibn Ahmad, there are no days greater and more beloved. to Allah than these first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah. As we know, Daratul Qadr is the pinnacle of the last 10 nights of Ramadan, and therefore it is the best night of the year. Similarly, the day of Arafah is the pinnacle of the first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah, and thus it is the best day of the entire year. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also mentioned these days, where He said, wa'l-fajri wa'l-ayyal in Ashr. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala took an oath, by the dawn, Pajr, and He said, the 10 nights, the layal in Ashr. Now the Mufassirin have agreed upon, that this refers to the, these 10 days and those nights, and the only night which is superior to that is Daratul Qadr, and therefore, the dalil of the superiority of these days, is from the Quran, and, from the Hadith, and from the Hadith of Rasulullah . Now, some of the merits of the day of Arafah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned in Surat Al-Buruj, wa'l-samai zaati al-buruj, wa'l-yaumi al-mau'ud, wa-shahidin wa mashhud, by the sky containing, the Qura'at, the constellations, and by the promised day, and by a witness, and one witnessed. The first three ayat of Surat Al-Buruj. Regarding these ayat, Rasulullah s.a.w. said in the Hadith in Tirmidhi, the promised day is the day of resurrection, the one witnessed is the day of Arafah, and the witness is Friday. The sun does not rise or set upon a day, that is more virtuous than it, meaning, the day of, Arafah. Rasulullah s.a.w. said in the Hadith in Muslim Sharif, that there is no day on which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala frees, more people from the fire, than on the day of Arafah. Indeed, he draws near, and boasts of them to the angels and says, what do these people want? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala proudly displays, these are my people. Undoubtedly, it would be a wasted opportunity, if we did not, try to be one of those people, who Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala draws close to him, and he forgives. Layatul Qadr is the night when the Quran was first sent down, and the day of Arafah is the day, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed the ayat of the Quran, where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, high spiritual, the different verses, and temporarily hand down the Quranic Kayn, Allah sabeed to you, the enemies of始رائيل. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also says, the conditions of Qaeda. He said, ückenbr kun Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala recipe guide the supposedMINISREVT'HABE görd внутри you. made that day a day of Eid, a day of festival. Sayyidina Umar, radhiallahu anhu, replied, he asked him, which ayah? He said, Where Allah said, today I have perfected for you your religion and completed upon you my blessing, and I have chosen for you Islam as your religion. Sayyidina Umar, radhiallahu anhu, replied, He said, surely we know that the day and place where it was revealed upon the Prophet ﷺ, he was standing at Arafat on the Friday, and this is the hadith in Bukhari. The fact that Allah ﷻ chose the day of Arafat to reveal this ayah makes it an even more blessed days. Now, what must we do on this day? Of course, the people who are, standing in Arafat, may Allah ﷻ make us among them. Those who haven't done Hajj, this is even more reminder for us that do Hajj as soon as you have the capacity to do Hajj. Don't delay it. Don't wait for, you know, some thing to happen. People say, I will go when I'm called. The only place that to which you will be called is, is your death. Only Malak

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillah. My dear brothers and sisters and elders, we come to the last of the reminders I want to make about these 10 days, and that is the days of Hajj and the day of Arafah. These 10 days are very significant because they also include the days of Hajj. And Allah SWT said about the day of Arafah, which is the day of Hajj when people are standing in Arafah. He said there is no day on which Allah SWT frees more people from the hellfire than on the day of Arafah. Hajj is the pillar of Islam as we know, and which must be performed at the earliest opportunity. Rasulullah SAW warned us against delaying the performance of Hajj, and warned us that delay may result in deprivation and deep regret. Rasulullah SAW is reported to have said, to perform Hajj, which is the first obligation, obligatory for Hajj, as none of you knows what may happen to him. He said, you don't know, maybe you will die before that. Maybe you will not get time after that, do it. So as soon as you have the opportunity, go make Hajj. And this is in Musnad Imam Ahmad, in Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah. And then also in Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah, Nabi SAW said, which means, whoever wants to do Hajj, let him hasten, let him hurry to do so. Hajj reminds us about the virtue of obedience, because it's rituals, are an enactment of the actions of Ibrahim and his family, which Allah SWT declared to become and to be rituals of worship. They did those actions because they needed to. We do them because they did them, in honour of them, and in honour of that Allah SWT forgives our sins. This is the wages of obedience. Allah SWT caused those actions, not just to be remembered, but He made them the rituals, the rituals of Hajj. Abu Hurairah narrated that he heard Rasul saying, whoever performs Hajj and does not commit any obscenity or transgression, shall return free from sins as he was on the day his mother gave birth to him. And this is Haib Bukhari, we make this dua for all those people who have gone for Hajj this year, including those who went from here. And we ask Allah SWT to enable us to go next year, InshaAllah, especially those who haven't done Hajj. In the name of Allah, make it your topmost priority. If you are eligible, meaning if you have the money and you have the health, then that has to become the number-one priority for you, InshaAllah. Abdullah bin Umar narrated that Rasul said, the one striving in the cause of Allah, Jihad feeh Sableeelillah, and the one performing Hajj, and the one performing Umrah, these are all the guests of Allah. He called them, and they responded to His call. and he answers their dua. And this is in Ibn Majah. It's a beautiful opportunity to ask Allah SWT for whatever you want, and Allah SWT promised to give it. Hajj is a lesson in life which is worth reflecting on. When the pilgrim puts on, when the hajj puts on his ihram, he is reminded that this will be the way in which he will begin the journey of his eternal life in two pieces of cloth. During hajj, he stands equal to everyone else there, without any sign to distinguish him from anyone else, shorn of all his pomp and splendor, alone as a supplicant. On the plain of Arafah, he stands bareheaded and disheveled with two million others, begging Allah SWT for his mercy and forgiveness. When he does tawaf, he is reminded of Khalilullah Ibrahim AS, our father and the father of the ummah, who built the house to be a place of sanctuary and a place of peace. He is reminded of the blessing which Allah SWT has bestowed upon humankind in the form of this blessed water, which millions of people have drunk through the ages. And Rasulullah SAW said, make a niyah and Allah will accept that dua. He said, zamzam is for whatever it is, drug for. When he does tawaf, between Safa and Marwah, he is reminded of the actions of our mother Haja AS and the mother of Ismail AS, the wife of Khalilullah Ibrahim AS. She didn't sit and wait for the help of Allah SWT to come, although she had complete faith in it. But she made the best effort that she could make. This is the essence of sabr. Sabr is not just to sit and wait. Sabr is to do your best, the ultimate best, and then to ask Allah SWT, for his help. The haji is reminded to do the same in his or her life, make the best effort and trust in the help of Allah. The standing, the wukuf in Arafah reminds the pilgrim of the throngs of people on the day of judgment. If the pilgrim feels tired from being in a crowd of thousands, how will it be in a crowd of barefoot, naked, uncircumcised people standing for 50,000 years? When he throws the pebbles at the Jamarat, the Muslim trains himself to obey Allah unquestioningly, even if he does not understand the reason and wisdom behind the rami, behind the throwing, and cannot make the connection between the rulings and their purpose. This is a manifestation of his complete abudiyya, his submission to Allah. When he slaughters, he sac

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah. My dear brothers and sisters and elders, we are in the middle of the best days of the year that Allah has blessed us with. We thank Allah for giving us life, for guiding us to Islam and for allowing us to witness another sacred month, the month of Dhul Hijjah, particularly the first ten days, which are the most virtuous days in the calendar. These days are a divine gift from Allah for our spiritual growth, for our to earn hasanat through acts of worship and the opportunity to earn immense reward. Allah mentioned these days and He said, By the dawn and by the ten nights. When Allah takes an oath by something, it is an indication of its great significance and status. The Mufassireen are agreed upon that and including Ibn Kathir and others, that when Allah said, Layali Nashab, the ten nights, it also refers to the first ten days of Dhul Hijjah. That these ten nights, Walfajri wa Layali Nashab refers to the first ten days of Dhul Hijjah. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la mentioned night, but it also includes the day of Dhul Hijjah. And we have the supporting dhalil of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la mentioning with respect to Zakariya, when he said, You will not speak for three days in one place and three nights for another place. So it means that the days and the nights, it means the same thing. Rasulullah , whose words are the truth, further emphasized the importance of these days in several authentic hadiths in Sayyid Bukhari, which are the words of the Prophet . Rasulullah is reported to have said, there are no days in which righteous deeds, good deeds, are more beloved to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la than these days. They asked him, not even jihad in the path of Allah. He said, not even jihad, except for a man who goes out with his life and wealth and does not return, returns with nothing. Rasulullah is telling us that, acts of worship during Dhul Hijjah are not accepted by Allah. The Prophet is reported that the day of judgement is not even jihad in all the paths of Allah. They said, there are less days in which righteous deeds are not accepted by Allah than these days. The Sahaba, Ridhu Allah, Alayhim Ulay, Wain, Wain. They asked him, not even jihad in the path of Allah. worship during these 10 days such as salah fasting charity zikr recitation of quran and so on and more beloved to him than doing the same deeds in any other days that is why rasul sallallahu used to fast all the first nine days of the hijjah and especially the day of gharafat which obviously if you to the fire if you fast the nine days the ninth day is the day of gharafa and he said that fasting on the day of gharafa expiates and wipes out the sins of the past year and the coming year and this is a muslim the day of gharafa or yawal is the name for the ninth of the hijjah just as yamun nahar is the name given to the day of which is the 10th we have been instructed to celebrate it and to fast on it wherever and whenever it occurs in our country of residence we have not been instructed to follow saudi arabia or any other country and if anyone interested i will give you the latest fatwa from the legend of roma of saudi arabia which specifically states this do not follow saudi arabia follow the sighting in your country so we have not been we have asked we have been asked to use that day for our benefit not to create dissonance and division and conflict in the country while notMi6aeidaiwa vyekass aun eye ati I remind myself and you that we must become greedy about accumulating good deeds. Just think of how greedy we are with accumulating wealth. We do not miss any opportunity. We don't care how painful it may be and how hard we may need to work or what other activity or interest we may need to give up. And may Allah help us, we don't even worry about whether it is halal or haram. But we must get wealth, anyhow. If there is an opportunity to make money, we give that precedence over everything else. So how about accumulating hazanat, which will come with us into the next world. I remind myself and you, let us remember that we will die. Let us not die with regret that we lost the opportunity to accumulate the only wealth which will help us when we meet Allah. So let's take advantage of the opportunities that Allah gives. He gives us to learn and to earn His pleasure before we are summoned before Him. That day will come, but we don't know when. So let's not delay in accumulating our real wealth. Now some acts of ibadah that we can do. One is to increase the amount of dhikr, the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that we do. In the hadith in Musnad ibn Ahmad, Rasulullah s.a.w. mentioned and he said that there are no days greater and more beloved. to Allah than these ten days of Dhul Hijjah. So increase in them your declaration of La ilaha illallah, tahlil, and saying Allahu Akbar,

Auto-generated transcript:I will tell you since you are young boys, I'll tell you a story about another young boy. And about this young boy, the story refers to these days that we are going through. This young boy was his father. He didn't meet his father. His father left him in a particular place just after he was born. And after that, the father came back when he was maybe 10 years old or something like that. And the father was in his 90s. And the father took him for a walk. And as they are walking, the father says to him, I have seen in my dream that I am slaughtering you for Allah. He said, O daughter, do what you are commanded to do. You will find me, if Allah wills, of those who are patient. Allah says that Ibrahim, when Ismail was old enough to walk with him, his father said to him, I have seen in my dream that I am slaughtering you. Look, what do you see? And his son says, O my father, do as you have been commanded. And inshallah, you will find me among those who are patient. Right? So the father, he hasn't seen the father. He hasn't seen the father for his whole life, effectively. And the first time he sees his father, this is the conversation. The father says, I have seen in my dream that I am slaughtering you for the sake of Allah. And then his father asks him a very strange question. He says to him, He said, you look, what do you see? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? He says, you look, what do you see? And the answer of the boy, the amazing thing, first of all, if somebody asks you a question, look, what do you see? What is the automatic response to that? What will you say? So look where? If I say look, look where? In my pocket? Behind me? Outside? The boy does not ask. Because he knows what his father is talking about. Imagine somebody who is raised in such a way that such a question does not confuse him, it does not perplex him, it does not get, what's wrong with my dad? He says, do as you have been commanded. Do as you have been commanded. And you will find me, insha'Allah, among the people who have sabr. You know the name of the boy? Yes. Is this Ibrahim's son? Ibrahim's son? Yes. What was his name? Ismail . Ibrahim's son, Ismail . And that was a good recovery, insha'Allah. The point I'm making is that, think about it from another angle. He was a boy. He was a boy like you. He was a boy like you. He was a boy like you. What makes them special? He was a boy like you. He was the product of a single parent. Today we talk about a single parent. There was no father. From the time he was born to the time of this conversation, there was no father involved. Ibrahim was not there. He was raised by his mother alone, Hajar . Single parent. How did she raise him in such a way that, number one, when he sees his father, he respects his father, he has regard for his father, right? And number two, he's already connected with Allah to such an extent that when his father asks him this question, which, if you look at the question, it's a very strange question. He knows what he's talking about. And then he gives him such a beautiful answer. He does not say, you will find me among the sabirin. He says, inshaAllah. He says, inshaAllah. If Allah wills. Because he's talking about slaughter, you can't say, well, you know, I've done this before, I know I can bear the pain. No. He doesn't know. What does it mean to be saying, I will slaughter you? What slaughter? He doesn't know. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. InshaAllah. It also shows us how, both for Ibrahim and Ismail, the number one important thing, the overwhelming thing, was the will of Allah. Ibrahim never asked Allah , why should I slaughter my son? What would I... After all, you gave me a son. After so many decades of making dua, now I had the little boy. Now you want me to slaughter him? What is this? Slaughtering is his wattéh. What's his wattéth? Don't ask, don't ask. son yes I'm ready for the son he didn't say how come you know first time I'm seeing you now you're telling me what kind of thing is this what did I do you saw the dream go slaughter somebody else no do as you have been come up if I'll my Atuma said I did only inshallah who you know somebody do as you have been commanded to my father and inshallah you will find me among the people who have suburb so for both the father and the son obedience to Allah sultana who teller is the number one priority no right if Allah said I will do class no arguments no waiting for time though let me think about this yellow you gave me this very difficult command so give me some time you know let me think about it no straight away strai

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 his family, and peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his family, My brothers and sisters, one of the most important things for us to do is to become grateful people. To become among the shakireen, the people who are grateful to Allah. You know, if you think about this, today we live in a world where we seem to be surrounded by bad news. In the newspapers, this and that, and all kinds of stuff all over the place. But give it a little bit more thought. Today, if you look at our lifestyle, and I'm not talking about the lifestyles of the high and mighty, the rich and famous. I'm talking about the lifestyles of ordinary people like us. We have lifestyles, and we live in comfort that is superior to the loyalty of the West and the East in medieval times. Far better than the kings and queens lived in Europe, and far better than the kings and queens lived in the East. Europe, I don't even want to talk and compare because their lifestyles are different. But if you look at the lifestyle, it's pretty sad if you look at the parameters. Say, for example, let's take two or three parameters to judge the lifestyle. One, let us take health. You know, these were the days before penicillin, days before antibiotics. It meant that if you got a wound on one of your limbs, which was very, very common for all kinds of reasons, not just wars, but, you know, exercise, practicing with weapons, working in the fields, just playing, anything, right? If you got a wound in one of your limbs, and they had some very brutal ways of dealing with it, with those things, and if it didn't work, if it got infected, which it did, you had a very good chance of losing the limb itself or having to get it amputated. And amputation also, including, for example, treating the wound if it needed to be stitched, amputation, everything. Remember, these are the days before anesthesia. So amputation was that they would grab you, put you on a... table or on some platform, hold you down, and then somebody would either take an axe or a saw and do the job. Not a nice image at all, right? But that was medical treatment. Infant mortality was through the roof. There was not a house in which some child had not died. Many women died in childbirth. And it didn't matter because disease does not differentiate between royalty and nobility and the common folk. The treatment that they had in the West for disease was practically one thing, which is bloodletting. So if you are sick, they opened a vein in your arm or... somewhere and they drained blood, sometimes quite a lot of blood. And they believed that this was something which cured you. It actually killed you because you had now also to deal with loss of blood. In the East, it was slightly better because medical treatment was a little bit more developed, but not particularly more. Food could not be refrigerated. There was no such thing. People used to eat food, which if you eat today, you would die. Because meat would be almost putrefying when they were eating it. And that's why they used a lot of spices to mask the stink of rotting meat. This is as far as food and health is concerned. Again, in the East, it was better. Especially if you were wealthy enough, you managed to get some decent food. But in Europe, it was very awful. There was obviously no heating and cooling and so on and so forth. So in the summer, you got hot. In the winter, you got cold. You froze. In the West, in Europe, they believed that bathing was dangerous to health. So they never bathed. Never bathed. They never brushed their teeth because they didn't know anything about oral hygiene. So by the time a person was about 30 years old, they would have lost most, if not all, their teeth. They had pyria. Their mouths stank worse than the worst drain. And this was normal. This was normal. And they never bathed, so their bodies stank. They believed that lice, and things like that in the beard, in the hair, on the skin was normal. This was how human beings were supposed to be, full of lice and so on. It's eye-opening that it was only during the Crusades that Europe and Europeans, including European royalty, were exposed to things like bathing and toothpaste and toothbrushes. And they were the first to have a bath. And they were the first to have a bath. And they were the first to have a bath. And some of them brought that back to Europe. Many of them got condemned for that reason. They said, you have become, you have left Christianity because you have taken on the ways of the heathens. But that's when things like oral hygiene, physical hygiene, and so on, started coming into Europe. It came f

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and the messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and may Allah grant him peace, and may Allah grant him much, much peace. And then, my brothers and sisters, we know the ayat of Surah Al-Bahim. Allah, the Exalted, said, Allah, the Exalted, said, Which means, let it be announced that the one who is grateful to Allah, the Exalted, for his blessings, Allah will increase the blessings. And the one who is ungrateful, let him beware that the punishment of Allah, the Exalted, is severe. Before we go further, let us just reflect on this. Allah said, The one who, thanks Allah, Allah will increase the blessings. But the one who is ungrateful, Allah did not say, Allah will punish him. Allah said, let him beware, the punishment is severe. Right? Normally, if you look at the construction of a sentence, it should be, I will give you, I will not give you. I will reward you, I will punish you. But this is the rahmah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah does not say, I will punish. Allah said, beware, punishment is severe. Meaning, there is always room for us to make izdighfar and tawbah and not reach that point where the punishment becomes wajib. Today, I went to a place called Longmeadow Conservation Area, which is 15 minutes from here, just behind Bay Path University. And I took some photos, I posted them. Whoever is interested, send me a message, I will send you the photos. I saw two families of swans. Absolutely fabulous. Most beautiful two hours that I spent. 15 minutes from here. How many of you never heard of this place? You lived here how many, 30 years, 40 years? Why? Why don't you go out? Why don't? Why don't you go and see the khudrat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? What are you doing? Sitting in the house every day from morning till evening, making money to do what? Please, enjoy the mercy of Allah. See how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has blessed us. Today, unfortunately, we live in a world where we hear only negative stuff. This is bad, that is bad, that is bad, that is bad, right? So, let us look at something. Some of the opposite, which is true, which we should really focus on. And I'll just go back to my own childhood and growing up. I'm not going back to ancient history of how it was in ancient Egypt and with the pharaohs and with, you know, kingdoms. No, I can give you all of that as well, but just by... When I was growing up in our house, and alhamdulillah, I didn't come from a poor family. I came from a very wealthy. I came from a very wealthy family and a very noble family. My father was a medical doctor, physician. We lived in a huge house. I was born in a house which had three acres of land around it. But then we moved to my father's house, which had four bedrooms, half an acre of land around it. And this is in Hyderabad. Mango trees, this, that. But no hot and cold running water. I'm not talking ancient history. I'm talking about the 60s, late 50s. No hot and cold running water. Not because we were poor. Not because there was no hot and cold running water. System didn't exist. No air conditioning. And why is air conditioning important? Because right now, as I'm speaking, the temperature in my city in Hyderabad is 120 Fahrenheit. You're always right. The chicken lays an egg, it becomes an omelet straight away. Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? My family, you've met a few children. lt's not. They live in an apartment building or whatever. You took your children. What would you do if she was not with you? She wasn't? You wouldn't even neck her? You wouldn't even? generators. So we had something called the Hawa Daan. How do you translate Hawa Daan into English? It was a box of air. So it was a covered, wooden covered with mesh on all four sides. So any food that was left, you put it in that. Next morning, if it was good, you ate it. If it wasn't good, you gave it to the chickens. Right? How did we live in that heat? Two ways. And if you ever got caught in that situation, use this. One, we would flood the room in which you would sleep. And flood not like in five feet of water, just about one inch of water on the floor. So remove, take away the carpets, just put it in the stone floor, one inch of water on the floor. Automatically the water evaporates with the heat. It's nice and cool. If you can't do that, then take a sheet, soak it, wet it, wring it so it's not dripping with water. Cover yourself with that sheet and sleep. You're fine. You don't need air conditioning. You learn to survive. As I told you, this is just from... Late 50s, early 60s. Say early 60s. Today, push a... You'

https://youtu.be/YE9O2_YnEts Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen Muhammadu Rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam.Tasliman kathirun kathirun.I am in this fabulous place called the Longmeadow Conservation Area,which is literally a stone's throw from where I live, about a 15-minute drive.And it's directly behind Bay Path University for locals who are listening to this one.And I am here with my good friend Arshad, Arshad Abdullah.Wa alaikum salam wa salam.And we are looking at a family of swans which are here.They have hidden themselves behind this, but inshallah, I think we'll be able to get a picture of them.There you go, the mother and the chicks are on that little bunch of land there.The father, the cob, is in those bushes.I think this is a kind of refuge for them.And they were floating around all this.Time.And now they've come here.And it's a beautiful scene.So you can see them grooming and very, very beautiful.Absolutely peaceful scene all around here.These are wetlands.It's a flooded land, which is...They have also red-shorted blackbirds coming up and landing.I want to talk to you about the last part of what I said the last time, which is adding value.And let me give you a couple of examples.I was in Singapore in 2020.And I was...I've been invited to teach a course at GE.GE Asia.And they...So I landed in Singapore.And the course was the next day.So I landed in the afternoon.And I thought I'd go out and, you know, see the town.So I asked the concierge of the hotel to get me a cab.Now, this is where the...If you see the...This is the...Value addition.How can it can be done?So the concierge says to me,Sir, I can get you a cab, of course.But if you want to just walk down to the main road,which is, you know, literally a couple of...Maybe 30, 40 feet because, you know, you get to the hotel and...He said, if you just stand on the curbside,taxis will come.He said, within two minutes,or less, you will have a taxi.And that will cost you nothing.Because if he says, if I get you the cab,then we will charge...The hotel will charge you.So I said, sure.Thank you so much.I went down to the...To the sidewalk, to the footpath.I stood on the curb.And sure enough, less than two minutes,the cab was there.Now, this is where the story starts.This cab driver,he stops the cab.He gets out, comes around,opens my door, passenger door.He says, Sir, please have a seat.So I get in.I sit down.And he says to me,Sir, this is...There's water here, if you want to drink water.He says, these are magazines.He has a business magazine and he has a...Just an entertainment magazine.He has also a...Guide magazine for Singapore.He shuts the door.He goes and gets into the seat.And he says, Sir, where can I take you?So I said, nowhere.I just want to sit in this cab andenjoy this experience of riding with you.Of being in your cab.We had a laugh.But this is 2020.I'm recording this 2025.25 years later, this experience is fresh in my mind.That is adding value.You take an ordinary,which is driving a cab,and you convert that into an unforgettable experiencefor your customers.Now, when the trip finished,I paid him.I tipped him.I gave him something more.He was happy to take that.But, you know, that's not why he did it.He did it because of who he is.And this is where we have to define ourselvesand say, how can I add value?Second story.A friend of mine wanted to buy a car.And he wanted to buy a car, which was a small car.It was like a Hyundai, a small Hyundai.So he wanted to get funding for this from a bank.So he called Citibank.So the Citibank lady answers his phone and she says,he says, can I, you know, I want to buy this car.And can you guide me?She says, sir, I am sorry.We do not fund for that car.We fund for Bhopal Astra,which is a much more expensive, bigger car.She says, but if you hold on a second,I will get you the number of the bankwhich funds the Hyundai, the Maruti car,which you want to buy.And my friend is astounded.He says, this is a Citibank employeesending me to a competitor.So she comes back a couple of minutes later.Sir, I'm sorry.I'm sorry to make you, to put you on hold.This is the number.Please call them.And I hope you get your funding.Now that is value addition.People ask me as a business consultant,I want to go into business.What shall I do?I tell them very simple.Look around you.See what people need and fulfill that need.And that's how you make money.Fulfill that need to the best of your ability.With the intention of helping the peopledo an absolutely number one quality job,not for the money, but for the reputation,for what you're doing for yourself.And that's how you make money.So three things I mentioned to you.First one was the way to becomeabsolutely incredibly influential in society.Three things.Number one, help people.Just help