Remember the Brotherhood

https://youtu.be/ZfEUYrA0rC8 Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillah. Ya Rabbi al-Alamin. Wa sallatu wa sallam ala ashra min al-fiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam. Tasbeeman kathiran kathiran. Ummabadum. My brothers and sisters, alhamdulillah. I am in Masjid al-Nabiyyat al-Sharif. As you can see, this classic architecture, all of us who have been here are familiar with it. I also know the architecture. May Allah bring you here as soon as you want to come here. InshaAllah. You know what strikes me? Two things that strike me here. One is that I am actually sitting, if you think about it, I am just actually sitting here within maybe 100 meters of the Rau'dah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The Rau'dah is where he is buried, but that's where he used to live. That was his house. And the what we know today as the Riyadh ul Jannah, which is that part of the Masjid between his house and his mimbar, which he said this is a garden from among the gardens of Jannah. Al-Riyadh Al-Rau'dah means Riyadh ul Jannah. A garden from the gardens of Jannah. Now, I always make this dua whenever I have the honor and opportunity to pray in Riyadh ul Jannah, which yesterday I did. I always make this dua that Allah, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, told us that once you enter Jannah, once a person enters Jannah, Allah will not throw him out. Dhaariqah huwa al-fawthu al-adheem. Allah said this is the final success after which there is no test. No more test. Final success. That is when one enters Jannah. So I make this dua and I say Allah, you caused me to enter Riyadh ul Jannah which Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said is a garden from the gardens of Jannah. So don't send me out. Do not send me out. Because you allowed me in here. I came here with your permission, with your help. Because you wanted me to come here. Because of your mercy, because of your forgiveness, because of your kindness. So please do not deny that to me. Do not send me away from here. We ask Allah to accept this dua that everyone who has prayed in Riyadh ul Jannah, may Allah give them Jannah. Because He already gave them Jannah. And may Allah never take them out from Jannah. May Allah make us a part of Jannah. May Allah make us a part of Jannah. May Allah make us a part of Jannah. We ask you for Jannah and we ask you for protection from the fire. So what strikes me when I come here is that this place or the little villages I mentioned before off track for everyone except for the few Arabs who lived here. In the time of the great empires, the great Persian empire, the great Roman empire, the Eastern Roman empire, the Pajat Khan empire, the time of the empires, this was a full on place. Nobody cared about it. Nobody wanted it. Nobody ruled it. Nobody wanted to rule it. And so this became a place which this became a big blessing for the Arabs because since they were people who nobody cared about, nobody interfered with them. Subhanallah, today, I think one of the biggest problems of the Arabs today is that everybody within courts cares for them. Right? Most of them care for them like a lion cares for the antelope. He loves the antelope. But not in the way that he wants. The antelope wants to be loved. Anyway, that's a different story. But the point I'm saying is that it left them alone to have their own culture. It left this area alone for itself. It left this area alone for itself. And so the people who were living in this area were not living in this area. They were living in this area. And so the people who were living in this area, they were living in this area. And so Allah created us and the only one who is worthy of worship. The one who created us, the one who sustains us, the one who feeds us, the one who protects us and the one to whom we will all return. There is no doubt about this fact. It doesn't matter whether you believe it or you don't believe it because this will happen. This will happen. But one day we will return to Allah. And sitting here reminds me of this that this very simple but very incredibly powerful thought or philosophy, the philosophy and thought of Tawhid started from here and went around the world. Started from here and went right around the world. To every corner. To every human being wherever he or she lives. I think I can safely say that there is not a living person today who has not heard about Islam. Who does not… who may not know Islam as they are understanding it. But the basic fundamental belief that this is the worship of the Creator, the worship of the one God, the only God. I… The person who understands Islam. Who understands… who hears that may say, well I don't agree with that. Sure, no problem. Don't agree. But does it change anything? If you don't agree that gravity exists, will gravity disappear? If you don't agree that the earth revolves around the sun, will that change? The world went through centuries, millennia where people thought that the earth was the center of the universe. But it didn't. It didn't. But that didn't change anything. The earth is not the center of the universe. Will it change anything if you believe that the earth is flat? That if you sail or travel long enough in one direction, you will fall off the edge of the earth like you would fall off the edge of a table? You can believe that. There are people today who do believe that. But does it change anything? Does it change the fact that the earth is not flat? I can go endlessly about this but I don't think I need to. I think this message is clear that believing or not believing in reality does not change reality. Because reality is not dependent on belief for its existence. Reality exists. Allah is real. The Akhira is real. Death is real. The meeting with Allah is real. 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As you can see here, there are zillions. There are zillions of people. The diversity of this is completely and totally unimaginable. Most people don't even realize that because Muslims don't think in terms of racism. So, the fact that we have this enormous diversity with which we are completely comfortable doesn't even strike us as something remarkable. It's quite strange. It's strange to say that, but that is a fact. To the Muslims, this is nothing remarkable. The fact that he or she can live peacefully in complete harmony with somebody who has nothing in common with them, not the same color, not the same shape of nose or eyes, not the same nationality, doesn't speak the same language, eats different kinds of food, maybe even hates the food that you love the most. Yet, we pray together, we stand next to each other, we are polite to each other, we help each other. As I mentioned in my other podcast, this man went, I didn't know him from a bar of soap. He literally takes my sandals off while I'm standing. He's a very good man. He's a very good man. He puts the sagtashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashashash between Muslims and Muslim, between Muslim countries, you would be absolutely right. You would be completely and totally right to ask that question and I think that is a question that we Muslims need to ask ourselves. What is it that we take away from this place? How is it we can come here and behave in this absolutely fabulous manner of complete brotherhood and then we go out of here and we are like cat and dog? That's worth thinking about. That's worth asking ourselves this question because when we come to the Arabian, we are proving to ourselves, we are absolutely proving to ourselves that when the primary reason is to please Allah,