How to live a life of influence

https://youtu.be/Inc0bp3k3PI Auto-generated transcript: Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil biya'i wa al-mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sahbihi wa sallamu ala alayhi wa sallamu ala alayhi wa sallam. A person says, I am standing here at the window of my room in Hilton, in Medina. And as you can see, literally, a very short walk from here, maybe just over 100 meters. This is the Masjid al-Nabawiwaye Sharif. Today, as I'm standing here, I'm thinking to myself, many, if not all of us are literally obsessed with one thought in our minds, and that is, how can I live a life of power and influence? And I want to say to you that, from where I'm sitting, as I mentioned to you, literally, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30 on them, they slide sideways and in the evening sometimes they open them so that you have this little open courtyard, not very little, quite big actually, open to the skies. Very, very beautiful to sit there with the beautiful breeze of Madina blowing directly into the Masjid. And these are the umbrellas that cover now, they have covered it, King Abdullah. May Allah forgive him and be pleased with him. He is responsible for covering the entire courtyard all around Masjid, which is a huge, huge, huge relief for the people who come here from the sun. And of course, it increases obviously the capacity for the people. So, we have this example of the Prophet Muhammad . And the reason I'm saying most powerful and influential is because as I look down here, you can see all those cars and buses there moving at a snail's pace because of… it's almost a traffic jam. And we have here the people… May Allah bless them down here on the ground. People who are here for one purpose only and that is to go to the Masjid-e-Nabawi-e-Sharif, to pray there and to present their salaam to Rasulallah . Literally I can tell you, I can stand here by this window for 24 hours and this stream of people, they are all here. This stream of people walking towards the Masjid-e-Nabawi ends 24-7, day and night, there are people who are going to the Masjid. And walking there, walking back, that's all they do. Alhamdulillah, I have had the pleasure and the privilege of being one of them. Now, how did this happen? How does this happen? How do you become powerful and influential? How do you become powerful and influential in this life? Paradoxically, it is by defocusing from this life and focusing on the hereafter. And that is the message of Rasulallah in a gist of it, which is the… literally in a nutshell, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, we can actually do something. In our entire existence, we began in the ilm of Allah SWT, in the knowledge of Allah SWT. From there we went into the Alam Al Arwah, the world of the souls. From there we, when Allah SWT, we stayed in the Alam Al Arwah, the world of the souls for Advokatul Ravisht. And then when Allah SWT decreed, we came to the wombs of our mothers. And then, we stayed there, for, period, of, whatever, number, of, months, and, then, we, were, rejected, into, this, world, extremely, unhappy, that, having, changed, our, situation, yelling, and, screaming, our, guts, out, and, then, we, suddenly, fell, in, love, with, We live in this world and we live in this world for as long as Allah decrease and just like we had no control over when we came into this world, we will have no control over when we leave this world. And then for most of us, that leaving of this world will also be, it may not be like yelling and screaming, but certainly something that you leave with great reluctance. And the key is to remember that just like this world, we had no conception of what this world is like. When we were in the womb of our mothers, we have really no actual experiential knowledge of what the aakhira will be like when we leave this world. But leaving this world is as inevitable as it was leaving the womb of our mothers. And it's with one difference, which is that when we were in the womb of our mothers, nobody came to us and to tell us about the joys of this world and what we are going to see here and so on and so forth. And we, where we were, we thought that was the ultimate. We were in a nice warm place and we had no, we were not in danger. We got our food on time and we were taken care of and all our needs were met. We really couldn't conceive of anything better. But when we came into this world, we suddenly discovered, the sun, the moon, the stars, northern lights. We discovered animals and birds. We discovered water. We discovered green trees. We discovered grass. We discovered sand. We discovered rocks. We discovered mountains. We discovered clouds and rain. We discovered our people we loved and people we hated. We discovered relationships we made and relationships that were broken. We discovered our hearts filled with love and happiness. We discovered our dreams shattered and our hearts broken. We discovered many things. We discovered great food. We discovered what happens when you fall in love with great food. And we discovered dieting. We discovered sickness and health. We discovered pain, which made us appreciate the time we spent with God. We discovered the love of God. We discovered the love of God. We discovered that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, what it felt or feels like or felt like we without pain. We ask Allah to keep us always without pain, InshaAllah. And then one day we will leave this world and as I said, as blood can clear, we came in here and we will discover, InshaAllah if we live this world the way we… if we live in this world the way we were supposed to live in this world, then we will discover a world that we cannot even imagine today. A world that is so beautiful, a world that is so amazing that Allah Himself told us about it. Allah praised, Allah told us, look out, look for that world. So you want to live a life of influence and power in this world, defocus from this world. That's the lesson we learn from Rasulullah , who is so close to, at least to me here when I'm here. Defocus from this world and focus on the hereafter. That is the whole point of focusing on the goal. Focus on the goal. What is the goal? The goal is to make the hereafter the best that we can do. Make the hereafter the best that we can do. That's the goal. And if you focus on the hereafter, you find that, InshaAllah, the life of this world also become very beautiful. Because this is the beauty of Islam. How can I, for example, how can I improve my chances in the hereafter? The way to improve my chances in the hereafter are to live in this life in a way that is pleasing to Allah . And what pleases Allah? When I help people. What pleases Allah? When I remember Him. What pleases Allah? When I... When I try to live my life according to the beautiful sunnah, according to the beautiful way shown by Muhammad . See these pigeons. People come here and they feed them. May Allah have mercy. They think they are doing something good but they are leaving the other side. The fact is that these pigeons, all they have to do is just eat. Allah has made their life so easy. People bring food for them. And then put it there for them and they eat it. This is our life. Alhamdulillah, Allah's pranukta has given us so much bounty in this existence that it's impossible to even try to describe this bounty. Say, this is what Allah has given us. There's so much of it. There's so much of it. Alhamdulillah. So, defocus from... This life and focus on the life of the hereafter. That is the way to become humongously successful in this life. When I say defocus, I obviously, I mean that in context. My context is, when I defocus of this life, I'm talking about living this life in a way that is, you are not engrossed in this life. You're living this life purposefully. So, when I say defocus on this life, I don't mean live this life. No, I mean, live this life purposefully in a way that pleases Allah . And that's no mystery. That way has been shown to us, that way has been taught to us by Rasulullah . And when we live our life like that, we find that we have a life which is powerful and influential beyond belief. We find that we have a life which is powerful and influential beyond belief. We find that we have a life which is powerful and influential beyond belief. We ask Allah to help us to live our life in a way that pleases Him. And to keep us in a state where He is pleased with us and never displeased. Wa sallallahu ala nabiyyil kareem wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wa rahmatika ya rahman rahimeen. Walhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.