Power of action

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 down. Because today if you ask the general population, their problem with Muslims, almost invariably people will talk about the problem with Muslims. Our Bahamilats, they will talk about our deities, which are far from impeccable, far from being free of criticism. And so I remind myself when you let us focus on these things. It's not simply enough to you know make Hifz of Quran and so on. Not as if people are doing that either, but I'm just saying this, you know. We don't even pray five times a day, forget about Hifz of Quran. So let us focus on our Ibadat, of course, Ibadat are absolutely critical importance. Let us focus on the quality of the Ibadat. Not taking pictures of yourself in Umrah with the Kaaba as your backdrop. See the lack of adab, see the absolutely, you know, disgusting attitudes that we have got into where there is no horbat of anything, there is no you know sanctity and glory and majesty. Of anything including the House of Allah. So the Kaaba is only good as a backdrop for a picture of a person who is holding up his hands in, you know, Dua pose so that somebody can take a picture of him. He is not even making Dua, he is just holding up his hands for somebody to take this picture. I mean how evil and disgusting is that? And my idea of saying this here is because if you go for Umrah, and if you go to the Kaaba, please don't do any of this. Focus on your Ibadat, focus on getting close to Allah . Make shukur to Allah that He gave you the opportunity to be there and take full advantage of that instead of taking pictures and so on. Make it haram upon yourself to pull the camera, to pull the phone out of your pocket. I mean I would say just leave the phone in your hotel room or something. But even if you are so wedded to that, you must carry it in your pocket or maybe you want to call somebody or somebody has to find you. Keep it in the pocket, stay in the pocket until you get back to your hotel room. No, do not take it out in the bus of the haram or in the haram sharif of Madinah. Do not touch the phone. Leave the phone on the roof. Nobody needs to see your pictures there. There is a great danger of Riya, the great danger of showing off and cancelling the words of the Ibadah because if you ask yourself, why are you showing those pictures? For what? You want people to know what a holy guy you are, that you are in Umrah. What other reason can you have? You know? So, people send these pictures saying, oh, I was, I'm making dua for you. Why are you telling me that? Why should you send a picture of that? You make dua. You make dua and let people know that you are doing dua. If I send a picture of your dua, it means that I'm making dua. You send a picture saying, I'm making dua and it's ridiculous. Please let's not treat this teen as a joke. As I mentioned to you, akhlaq is everything. And Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam demonstrated that long before he got his, he got or he was permitted to take a tawbah at the mosque in the you know, give dawah of Islam, he already had a reputation for being the most truthful and the most trustworthy persons in his community. And that's what I need to look at. That's what I request you to look at. What, how am I viewed? And again, I don't mean to go for Facebook likes and saying what is my reputation in the community? Am I trusted? Am I somebody who is respected for his virtues? Or am I a joke? So let's pick this, focus on this inshaAllah.