PLAY PODCASTS
They work for Rasoolullahﷺ

They work for Rasoolullahﷺ

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

November 25, 2025

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (media.blubrry.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

https://youtu.be/WxfsmWqWVSY Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil abya'i wal mursaleen, Muhammadun Rasulullah, insallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sahbihi salam, tasliman kathiran kathira, amman wa ba'du. My brothers and sisters, I'm sitting, standing here, you can see right opposite the Prophet Sharif. I'm thinking to myself, here I am, this is the Prophet Sharif, over to the right from here, and little bit behind is the Rauza Mubarak. And if I turn around completely, and I'm looking now in that direction, which is the opposite, and I'm back to the Masjid-e-Sharif, you can see the Mount Rauhaj. Now, of course in the dark now you can't see the mountain, but that's where it is. It's literally a stone's throw from here. I'm thinking to myself, that 1500 years ago, this little village, which had this masjid, was made of mud brick, and made with the blessed labor and effort of Rasulullah, the son of himself, and all those who loved him. And now, I'm thinking, what has changed, and what has not changed? What has changed is the brick and mortar. What has changed is now that we have this magnificent structure, which is beautifully lighted. One of the things that always I'm very positively impressed with is the subtlety of the lighting of these beautiful buildings. It's the Masjid in Saudi Arabia, especially the Haramain Sharifahin, where you can see how these minarets are lighted. They seem to glow with an internal glow of themselves. The unlighted pillar-like thing that you're seeing are the umbrellas now folded. In the earlier videos, you would have seen them extended. They do that. They're on timers. They do that. They're on the roof during the daylight hours, and then in the night, as soon as it falls, sunsets, they are folded back up again. So, this is what has changed, which is the material surface things. But what has not changed, SubhanAllah, I was thinking to myself, and we were talking to some friends of mine. I met one of my very dear old friends here just now from Mangalore. He was remarking on how despite this enormous footfall, just see the people. And this is now a bit after Isha, so a lot of people have left, but still you can see this massive crowd coming out. What has not changed is the love of Muhammad ﷺ that you can see in all that happens here. Starting with the cleaning of the Masjid. The people of the Nizamah, the housekeeping who clean the Masjid, those who use machines, there are all kinds of machines. There are scrubbers and cleaners and carpet cleaners and carpet vacuumers and shampoos and all sorts of stuff. And then there are people who are just picking up stuff. And may Allah have mercy on the Muslims. There's no shortage of stuff that they throw out. They throw on the ground, but people keep picking it up. What is clear is how these people work by themselves. There's no supervision. They probably have one supervisor for every hundred people or something like that just to make sure that people are paid on time. I don't know why they even have them. But anyway, they probably have that. I don't know that they have anything more. Because you don't see any supervisors. You just see the people of the cleaning crews. They're working by themselves. What is abundantly clear is they're not doing it for the money. Because I know some of the people, these people personally, one of my very good friends is a cleaner here at Masjid al-Nabawi Sharif. And I know what he gets paid. He doesn't get paid very much. But he's been here for the last 20 years just cleaning the Masjid al-Sharif. The love of Muhammad , the love of Masjid al-Nabawi Sharif. For 20 years. Now, man is a cleaner of this beautiful Masjid. And it's not because the Masjid is beautiful, but because this Masjid is the Masjid of Muhammad . That has not changed. For 1500 years, Masjid is populated by people who love Muhammad . It's cleaned by people who love Muhammad . It's maintained by people who love Muhammad . It is, all this is done for the love of Muhammad . And Allah , may Allah reward them. These are the true billionaires and trillionaires of the world. Not the ones who cannot distinguish between good and evil. The ones who have a good lifestyle, whose sum total of their lives is the, which is to satisfy their desires. And then call it technology and what not. But with a result that they don't have any idea of what they are saying and doing. May Allah have mercy. These are the role models. These are the people who are unfortunately the role models, instead of the true role models who should be our role models. The best of them, the one without comparison is Muhammad Rasulullah . The one who Allah called Rahmatul Al-Alamin, the one who Allah called Al-Bashir wa Nazir, Da'iyanil Allahi bi-idhnihi wa sirajan bunirah. The one who Allah sent as a mercy to every creature that He created. Al-Alamin, not just Rahmatul Al-Muslimin, Rahmatul Al-Alamin. And for the love of whom these people come. See the scene. SubhanAllah, I mean I know on this video it's probably not that clear and I don't want to focus on people's faces but the thing that strikes me is the amazing diversity that is there. Amazing diversity. People from, as I say, if Allah created it, it is here. SubhanAllah. People from everywhere in the world. And people of all levels of society. Some of these people you see here, especially the elderly ones, you seriously ask yourself, how on earth does somebody who look like this, who looks like this, who is like this, how does somebody like that even get to this level? SubhanAllah. SubhanAllah. How do you get here? Someone is coming from a village literally in the boondocks. Some village deep in Africa or deep in Asia probably doesn't have running water, probably doesn't have a road, proper road to get there. If you had to go to that village you would be given, you would have to give your journey and expedition status to the people. and prepare for it for days and then reach there using multiple means of transport and probably even walk the last few miles and people from such places are here in Madinah of Nawara and Mecca of Karaba for Hajj, for Umrah for Ziyarah to worship in these buses of Rasulullah S.A.W and to go and make Salam to him at the Rawda Mubarak really I have to ask myself how on earth did this person even get here I mean they braved the visa processes they got themselves visas and they caught planes and they didn't miss flights and they went through customs and immigration in multiple countries and imagine I mean and most of those people they do not speak any global language, they don't speak English they don't speak Arabic many of them don't even speak Urdu so they are speaking some Pashto or something very local dialects and yet they are here what is it that makes think about that what is it that even makes somebody like that have this as a desire because for them the ticket alone is something which is which will take their lifetime savings you know but they and it's not far I mean just think about that to come to Madinah is not far right even for those who have the means to make Hajj Hajj is far but to come to Madinah is not far and to come to Madinah is not even a rokan of Hajj it's not even a part of Hajj it's not one of the Manasik of Hajj it's not part of the Hajj rituals people come to Madinah only for one reason that is to honor Muhammad because if it had not been for Muhammad we would not be doing Hajj we ask Allah to bless also Allah Allah said in the Quran that Allah and His Angels are blessing the Prophet O you who believe and are blessing him and are giving him alms Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi Muhammad as I have blessed Ibrahim and Ibrahim al-Majeed Allahumma barik ala Muhammadin wa ala alihi Muhammad as I have blessed Ibrahim and Ibrahim al-Majeed and I pray to Allah for the noble Prophet and for his family and his companions and for your mercy O the Merciful and praise be to Allah the Lord of the worlds