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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center · Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

October 1, 2025

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https://youtu.be/qBk84YkaAYU Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, we are sitting here in Maine, literally opposite the Atlantic Ocean. And we can hear the waves, you can see the waves and the sun is gently rising. Not yet, but just finished the Fajr. And I'm reflecting on the, and I also advise you to reflect on the glory of Majesty of Allah SWT. This ocean which we see in front of us, obviously you can't see, it stretches all the way to the horizon. In Hadith, Rasulullah SAW said, that not this one ocean, but if all the seven oceans were collected and poured on top of the head of Mikhail SAW, that water would not drop off his head. So, when I first heard this Hadith, I was thinking to myself, you know, I mean, obviously, we know the Hadith is true, we believe the word of Rasulullah SAW, but the water of seven oceans, then this is only one piece of one ocean, which we are seeing here. We are not seeing the whole Atlantic, there is the one small piece of it. And it stretches all the way to the horizon. You can't see, there's no end to that. Collect that, the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, all of them. Put all that water on the top of the head of one angel, and it will not even drop. And then I thought to myself that if I take a teaspoon of water and pour it on my head, it won't drop. Even with the, sort of, you know, my head is not exactly full of air, but if it had enough air, even water wouldn't drop. Even water wouldn't drop. A teaspoon of water wouldn't drop. So it's the question of skill. How massive is the angel? How big is the angel? And he's not, this is not the biggest of them. Rasulullah SAW, in Al-Isra and Miraj, when he, Allah SWT, took him up the seven heavens, he said, I saw the angels holding up the throne of Allah, the Hamal-e-Arsh. He said, there are four of them. And he said, they asked him, the Sahaba, they said, Ya Rasulullah, how big is this angel? The angel is holding the throne of Allah, so how big is the angel? Nabi SAW said, if a bird takes off from the shoulder of the angel, it will fly for 500 years, and it will not even reach the lobe of the ear of the angel. After 500 years of flying from ear to ear. And that is not reached, so we don't know how far it gets. And there are four of those. And Nabi SAW said, when Allah SWT created the Arsh, he created the angels, and the angels held up the Arsh, and they were sinking. They could not hold the Arsh. And they were sinking. So all that massive strength of four angels is not enough to hold up the Arsh of Allah SWT. Until Allah SWT inspired those angels to say, La hawla wa la quwwata illa Billah. And then it held. And on the Day of Judgment, Allah SWT's Jalal will be such that Allah will create another four angels only for that day. There will be eight holding up the Arsh of Allah SWT on that day. We ask Allah SWT on that day to grant us the shade of His Arsh. Allah SWT says, Allahumma adhillani wa adhillana taht Arshuk. Yawma la adhilla illa dhilluk. Allah SWT grant us the shade of Your Arsh on a day when there is no shade except Your shade. To come back to the ocean, I don't know whether here we will see any whales, maybe we will. But think about this. This ocean has humpback whales. A humpback whale in one day eats one ton of food, which is sardines, krill, all kinds of things. The blue whale eats four times that, four tons. And the food of the blue whale, the blue whale is the largest creature ever to be created. Allah SWT created them. The largest creature ever to be created. The call of the blue whale, blue whale's calling off the coast of California were recorded in Japan, across the Pacific. His Sheikh was a blue whale, he could have spoken to his father in Morocco without a phone. He was a blue whale. He was a blue whale. He was a blue whale. Kreel eats four tons of food And what is the food of the blue whale? Krill Kikle is like a small shrimp, it looks like a shrimp. But the biggest, the most massive of krill weighs one gram, one gram. Hey, it is how many crates? Now these whales, very interesting, think where they feed. They feed up in the Arctic Ocean. My brother just went in his RV from Florida all the way up through Alaska to the end of Alaska and he could not go to the coast of the Arctic because all that land is being, is with oil companies who are drilling in shale. So they don't allow anyone to go in there. So he couldn't go to the coast of the Arctic Ocean, but he went all the way up there. These whales are going actually from the Arctic Ocean and they go south all the way down to Hawaii. And they go to the Arctic Ocean. And they go to the Arctic Ocean. And into the Caribbean. They feed in the Arctic Ocean. Sub-zero temperatures. That's where they have the maximum food. And when they do this entire journey, they go from the Arctic Ocean all the way down the coast of North and South America all the way down to the Caribbean, to this, the ocean around Hawaii. And this is the reason why they eat nothing. They eat absolutely nothing. And they turn, they breed there. They have their calves. And they turn around and they go back all the way to the Arctic with their calves in tow. And the calves have to be protected because killer whales are after them. Orcas. Big sharks are after them. Because they kill them. Because they can't do anything to the adult but the younger ones. And on top of all that, all these whales, the big ones I'm talking about, except the sperm whale or otherwise, the orca, the blue whale and the humbucks, they're what are called baleen whales. They have no teeth. They have massive screens. They have a big mouth. They have a big mouth. because they will achieve the goal of現在 deiges them. Tremble Land of baleen whales. And south and south of the ocean. You do not need to necessarily take baleen whales aside. Just get them close to you. That's the key. Baleen whales will kill you. bubbles of air so the bubbles of air form a complete screen right complete screen and inside the screen are sardines or inside the screen are critter and then they rise through the water with their mouths open so they're taking in tons of water which filters through the sieves which are the valines and they come up and they shut their mouths and they go down again and that one gulp they take all this photo plankton zooplankton krill sardines amazing to see how these waves feed most recently there was an interesting interesting case of this guy was on a either on a paddle board or he was on a a small canoe or something and a whale came up below him and swallowed him didn't actually swallow him a bills cannot swallow you because it cannot swallow anything bigger than a beach ball but uh it took him into his mouth as a massive mouth came as it's closed around him and then the whales spat him out because whales don't eat junk food so yes it spat him out but imagine that guy's got a story to tell to his grandchildren he was actually in he was actually in the mouth of a whale of course he was not in any danger who knows this is the of allah this is the rabbi worship and all these creatures everything everything every drop of water in the ocean worships allah every wave of breeze worships allah every wave in the ocean worships allah every grain of sand worships allah everything animate inanimate worships allah and i'm talking only about the earth as i came out this morning before the other and i called the other on the on the deck the stars you can see here because it's the light pollution not there fabulous all those stars all the that we know and we don't know worships and worships only allah's man this is the that's why i say you know let's open our eyes and and see what we are seeing actually see it not just look at it the difference between looking and seeing right you look with your eyes you see with your knowledge and that's why you need to read yeah i was reading yesterday bees einstein said something like he said if all the bees died then the human race would have like three weeks to survive after that the human race would perish because of the kind of work the bees do of pollination and so on now bees and ants they are very similar system they live in colonies and these colonies are ruled by one female the queen ant or the queen bee about the queen ant allah's manatee mentioned in the book of the queen bee and the queen bee is the queen of the queen bee and the queen of the queen ant allah mentioned in surah now when we translate many times we say the answer the ant didn't say that the queen and said that and the quran refers specifically grammatically this is where the arabic grammar comes into you know you see the power of the arabic grammar because the arabic is the only language where there is a different word for for female different word for male qalat namlat namlatu ya namal udkhulu hi maalikuhu namlatu ya namal udkhulu hi maalikuhu namlatu ya namal udkhulu hi maalikuhu namlatu ya namal udkhulu hi maalikuhu qalat qalat the female said because only the female can do that nobody can do that the queen ant is the only one bee and ant colonies are the most structured the most to for want of another word the dictatorial the most absolutist societies in the world now what happens in the queen and dies what happens in the queen we die if the queen bee dies effectively that colony will die maybe a week from their thats it they have got about a week of life left end of colony now that would be complete disaster so what do they do what they do is they dont know the reasoning behind it what they do is genetically every female bee has the same genetic code as the queen bee B. There's no difference. But the queen B is the only one who decides, the only one who can give commands and the only one who's obeyed. Other Bs have absolutely zero authority. They cannot do anything on their own. Same genetic code. So the queen B doesn't come from a different genetic code. It's not superior in race or what. No,