The world is deception

Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. May the Lord of the worlds be with you. And peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad and the Messenger of God, and his family and friends and his family. Peace and blessings be upon him. Now we are walking in Ashley and with me is Zeeshad and Atiba. Who are both cousins and I have the pleasure of meeting Atiba for the first time and Zeeshad of course. For many many years now. Alhamdulillah. And as we shall see, very very beautiful place. Truly reminds us of what Allah mentioned about Jannah. We ask Allah for Jannah inshaAllah. The leaves are about to turn colour. So some signs of that colour we are seeing. But I know how what this place looks like another month. So we are completely transformed place. Very beautiful. Very very even more beautiful. We are talking about the issue of virtual reality. So we are talking about Apple's what is it called? Vision Pro. Vision Pro. Vision Pro which is a virtual reality supported device. And you wear it like a pair of glasses. And then it shows you all kinds of videos and images which you can see in the virtual reality. I mean it's VR so it looks real. And I was reminding myself and my brother said that we don't have to go to technology to understand this. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is showing this to us every day. What appears is not what is. There is a difference between the appearance of something and the reality behind it. And we see it throughout in life. You know some people who we think are friends. The way they talk to you, the way they sit with you, they invite you for dinner, for lunch and this and that. And then suddenly, Allah protects. But you discover that they are stabbing you in the back. Right behind your back they are talking stuff. And behind your back they are trying to stab you in the back. So I am always very happy when I hear that. Because it means now I am getting some free good deeds. So I don't confront them. The guy invites me for a meal, I am very happy. I never refuse free food. So I go have the meal. I make sure he eats first so I know it's not poisoned. But other than that, I say Alhamdulillah, please go ahead stab me in the back. And do as much Zaheer as you want. Because all that is good deed for me. And you cannot harm me. There is no one who can harm and no one who can benefit except Allah. So what do I care? Similarly we have, so appearance is something, friendship. Reality is enmity. Similarly, you see, you take the things in Israq. Many times people say, you know, this is not convenient, that is not convenient. The usual moons, not moon sighting but moon fighting arguments. About saying why should we wait so long to see the moon. Why don't we calculate? And this is the modern world. This is a combination of ignorance and self-importance. Because calculations are nothing new. The Hindus have had a calculation calendar for the last 3000 years. So there is nothing new about calculating. People have done, Egyptians had a calculate, moon, lunar calculations 5000 years ago. Because lunar calendars are nothing new. It's not as if the Arabs invented it. Lunar calendars have been there long before the solar calendars. Julius Caesar was the first one to bring a solar calendar. It was called the Julian calendar. So the point is that if you don't read history, then you have no clue what you are talking about. But anyway, so nothing new about that. But moon fighting. So arguing about, you know, which, which, whatever. What organization should you follow? I mean, all of this is for the sake of convenience. So why should we sit in the masjid till 11 o'clock at night waiting for a sighting report to come from California or wherever? But we don't ask this question. When the World Cup was being played in Qatar, because of the time difference, it was 2 o'clock in the morning or 3 o'clock in the night. And people sat. And they didn't just sit for one hour. They sat for two or three hours. They watched all the games. Nobody argued about that. There was no fighting about that. Nobody said, is it Haram? Is it Fard? Is it Sunnah? Is it Rusta? You know, what happens if I don't watch a soccer match when I go to Jahannam? Nobody asked any questions, right? But for the moon. And this is a convenience. So again, we're talking about what, what appears and what doesn't appear. So I always tell them, I said, this deen, Islam, is based on inconvenience. Everything in this deen is inconvenient. Take Udhu. Is it convenient? When you are at your workplace, you have to make Udhu. If you have not done Masa beforehand, then you have to take your socks off, shoes off, go wash your feet. Is it easy? It's very difficult. Especially in wintertime. Especially in wintertime. And then five times a day. Right? The time of Salah comes so quickly. You want to say, I want to sleep for a little bit. No time. Before you go, time is gone. Inconvenience. Right? Tahajjud. Waking up at two o'clock in the night to pray Tahajjud. You know, why can't I do that? Nine o'clock in the morning? No, no, no. That's the time. Two o'clock. That's the way. That is why Allah is asking, who wants something from me? Take fasting. Tell me, what is convenient about fasting? There's nothing convenient about fasting. Right? You just have to take a fast. And then, of course, thanks to the lunar calendar, the solar calendar, it doesn't come at the same time. So sometimes in the summer, sometimes in the winter. So all that, you're putting up with all that. Inconvenience. Right? Zakat. You have to give Zakat. You have to take, put your hand in your pocket. That's the most difficult thing to do. And then Hajj. Imagine this. Why can't I do Hajj wearing a nice pair of hawkas and a nice track suit and a nice big hat and comfortably? No, you can't do Hajj. You can't do Hajj. You can't do Hajj. You can't do Hajj. You can't do Hajj. You can't do Hajj. You can't do Hajj. You can't do Hajj. You can't do Hajj. You can't do Hajj. You can't do Hajj. You can't do Hajj. You can't do Hajj. You can't do Hajj. You can't do Hajj. You have to wear the Haram. You have to have slippers where the top of your foot is showing. You cannot cover your head. Hajjeeb. Right? But if you don't do that, there's no Hajj. This whole Deen is based on inconvenience. Why? Why? For a very simple formula. And the formula is, you show love by doing that which is inconvenient. You show love by doing that which is inconvenient. You show love by doing that which does not make sense in the normal way. Right? You want to get a smile out of your wife? Take her a bunch of roses. Suppose you have a logical thought about this. And you say, look. A bunch of roses cost me, what does it cost? $50. Say $50. Right? For $50, how many bananas can you buy? Right? I can buy 50 bananas. Even at $1 a banana. Right? So instead of a bunch of roses, I'm going to give her 50 bananas. And I will tell her, you know what? You can eat this. And this has potassium. And this has iron. And it's good for you and so on and so forth. So here is your birthday present. 50 bananas. It makes sense. Makes sense, right? But what do you think will happen to you? She'll probably sit there holding a gun to your head and say, eat every one of these bananas now with the skin. 50 bananas. Love is to do that which is inconvenient for the one you love. Love is to do that which does not come naturally for the one you love. Love is the thing that you love. Love is the thing to do which you do specially for the one you love. Therefore, when we do these things, we must think, do I love Allah? If I love Allah , then how is tahajjud inconvenient? You look forward to that. If I love Allah, how is hajj inconvenient? If I love Allah, how is fasting inconvenient? Nothing is inconvenient. Alhamdulillah. If you want me to fast the whole year, I'll do it. It's good for health also. But anyway. The point being, that for love. For love. For love. So, on the surface of it, on the face of it, whole bunch of inconvenient things. But behind it, is the love of Allah . It's the love of Allah . And Allah said, قُلْ إِن كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهَ فَاتَّبِيُونِي يُحْبِبْكُمُ وَاللَّهُ يَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ وَاللَّهُ غَفُورٌ رَهِيمٌ Allah said, say to these people, Ya Rasulullah, say to them, if you love Allah, make my itiba. Emulate me. Imitate me. Look like me. Walk like me. Talk like me. Deal with people like me. And so on and so on. Throughout the whole life. Then what will happen? Then Allah will love you. يَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ وَاللَّهُ غَفُورٌ رَهِيمٌ The first thing, the boundary condition. If Allah loves you, Allah will forgive your sins. And Allah is the most forgiving. Most merciful. The point is, that comes because we love Allah. It comes because we love Rasulullah . Yes, it doesn't come. It doesn't come. But anything in life is incontinent. Take for example, people have this great, I must have children. So you get married. I must have children. And you don't, if you don't have a child, you say, oh my God, what's happened? I must have children. Allah has not blessed me. Allah has never used the word blessed with respect to children in the Qur'an. Anywhere. Children, Allah used the word fitna. Allah said, أَدُوا وَالَّكُمْ Allah said, they are your enemies. Unless you train them. Allah said, إِنَّمَا إِنَّمَا إِنَّمَا وَاللَّكُمْ وَاللَّكُمْ وَاللَّكُمْ فِطْرًةً Allah said, your wealth, your children are fitna, they are a test for you. What about this. Yes, not one word, but reward. So for that, for the men of course, you don't go through that. But for the women, they go through probably the most difficult, the most painful human experience of anything. And the pain of childbirth, worst pain that any person can suffer. But you do it because you see this child as a great benefit. I don't mind. I will go through all this. Not only all this, Allah SWT makes them forget with that child.