Who has the power?

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 be upon the honour of the Prophet and the Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and upon all his family. And after that, brothers and sisters, this morning at the time of the Hajj, I got news that one of my very dear friends in America, his mother passed away, his mother passed away very suddenly. I called him, he said, 15 minutes. She was walking, talking, suddenly had a heart attack. In 15 minutes, she was gone. We ask Allah for Jannatul Firdous, without Hisaab for her and for Sabr for the family. I'm mentioning this as a reminder for us. Last Friday, my father's sister passed away, my Poovi. So, her children, they requested me to do the Salatul Janaza and so on. So, I went there. The Kavarsan in Chilkal Guda, that one section, we have our family graves. So, there's not enough space. So, they buried her in my grandfather's grave, her father, my Dada. My grandfather died in 1965. So, they opened the grave and they buried my aunt there. I looked into the grave, there's nothing. There's nothing. It was very salutary. It was very holy. It was very holy. It was a very holy experience for me to actually look into the grave of my Dada, my grandfather. I was probably nine years old or something like this at that time. So, they did not take me to the Kavarsan. I did not participate in the Janaza and so on at that time. So, this is actually the first time I've... I mean, I visited his grave many times. It reminds me that, Alhamdulillah, Allah reminded us of this day. Which will come to every single one of us. About which Allah said, كل نفس ذائقة الموت كل نفس Every living thing will taste death. كل نفس ذائقة الموت every living thing will taste death, without exception. Good or bad, old or young, sick or healthy, makes no difference. Muslim, non-Muslim, makes no difference. The worst of them died, and the best of them died. Rasulullah s.a.w. himself passed away. Allah s.w.t. said, Everybody. And one day, we will die. And on that day, S.A.w. said, You will then really see. Because the curtains which are there over our eyes, will be pulled aside. And then we will really see the reality. We will see the Haqqah. And that is the day we need to prepare for. This world, Allah s.w.t. said that this world is except, it is nothing except deception. What looks like success in this world, is actually failure. And what looks like failure, is success. So when we look, when we hear and read, about the last days, and about the Jal, and we say the Jal will show the fire, and actually it will be the Garden of Jannah, and you will show a garden, but that will be the fire. You don't have to go all the way there. You can see it today. You don't have to go all the way there. You don't have to go, Allah protect us from being at the same time alive when Dajjal is there, because that's a time when the Prophet asked protection from that time. But you can see the Jaliyat of this world. You can see this deception of this world right now. As we speak. Where things which we aren't behind in this life. Just go on the street here. You know this, India probably is one of the, it's not the only place, but one of the few places where you can actually see this chasing behind money, and running behind money, and running behind this false name and fame, and see it very clearly in this society. Small things. Designation for example. I should be called senior vice president sanitation. Who are you? You are a sweeper. Huh? Somebody is, one friend of mine getting very agitated about this. No, they don't call me this, they don't call me that. I said when you are saying they don't call me that, and that is bothering you, who has the power? They or you? Mind is blank. You've lost our capacity to think. When you are saying they don't give me this respect, who has the power? They or you? My point is, I am what I am, I know what I am. Whether you call me, you know what I am, or you call me, you know what I am, I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. You know, you know Sheikh ul-Haram or you call me Shaitan ul-Haram, what difference does it make? I am myself. Call me what you want. What does it matter? But if you are stuck in this outside world, everything, your identity is based on what people say. They are not, you are saying it. They must respect me. Who is they? Who is they? And if that is the case, who is important, them or you? You've taken your life and given it to the hands of others. Do with me whatever you want. This is dunya. Somebody gives you one designation, oh, I feel so nice and so proud. I told one friend of mine, I said, go to the printer and print your name and assistant god. They can't go beyond that. They can't call themselves god. We call you assistant god, alhamdulillah. This is the dunya. This is the dunya. In 1994, when I set up my own consulting company, I became an entrepreneur. In 1994, my biggest realization was this. I went to get business cards printed and I'm now thinking, what shall I put on this card? And my biggest realization was, I can put whatever I want. I mean, alhamdulillah, even when I was working, I was never stuck on this designation business. I was stuck on this business. I was stuck on this business. I was stuck on this business. I was stuck on this business. But I know people are doing, people are, you know, big negotiations about what should I be called. And I thought to myself, no, I am printing my own card. I can write whatever I want on this card. Meaningless. This dunya and what we chase is meaningless. Literally no meaning. What has meaning is only the ridha of Allah. Alhamdulillah. Only that Allah should be pleased with us. Nothing else. So whatever leads to that. Friends who lead to the pleasure of Allah. Who remind you of Allah swt. Who live a life which reminds you of Allah swt. When you speak to them, they don't talk all kinds of crap. They talk about the greatness of Allah swt. They teach you something. They teach you something. They teach you something. They teach you something. They teach you something. They teach you something. They teach you something. They teach you something. They teach you something. They teach you something. And you can't just take that and leave that. So what is the greatest thing? It is the greatest thing. The greatest thing is that this is what Allah swt. He has mentioned. He said that Allah khilla Khalil, the closest friends, on the day of judgment, they will be enemies to one another. Illa al-Muttaqeen, except the Muttaqeen. May Allah make us among the Muttaqeen and keep us and our hearts together when we meet Allah swt. So, we live a life in this world where we infringe on people's rights, we take people's property, we play with people's izzah, we spend our time doing ghiva, bad talking, slandering people. Believe me, every single word, every single action is being accounted without a doubt. If you only think today, there is so much technology surrounding us that we can ourselves trace, if you want to trace somebody, where they went, what they did, you don't need to go to, you know, the FBI or the FBI. You can do it yourself. Phones and date stamps and what they bought somewhere and timing and this and that. These cameras, you know, we have security cameras everywhere, right? In sometimes in masaj, they have security cameras out. Now, when you are praying, you are conscious, if I scratch my nose, this camera is, you know, somebody will see it. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is watching, that time you don't worry about it. There's no security cameras. There's no security cameras. You scratch your nose, you scratch your head, you scratch God knows where. Allah is watching. The Prophet said, Arabic Allah said, Arabic As if you can see Allah. And you don't see Allah, but Allah sees you. Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic for when I die. Allah SWT has shown us in this same masjid Allah has shown us our dear friend Adnan Mahmood full of life full of energy you know full of good humor mashaAllah may Allah bless him and grant his grant him the and fill his with noor did anybody expect Adnan to die? nobody expects nobody expects anyone believe me nobody expects anyone to die even the one who is dying doesn't expect to die but they all die but they all die and then what is with us is what we did that's it that's it that's it and nobody can help nobody can help do whatever you want nothing will happen we stand before Allah only Allah can help nobody else nobody else ask Allah SWT to open our eyes before our eyes are opened for us ask Allah SWT to enable us to live this life in a way that pleases Him we ask Allah SWT to help us to make this life to make this life to make this life to make this life the right choices and the right choice is to please allah and not to please the world the request will make dua for these people who passed away who i mentioned dr khurram's mother and my aunt we ask allah to bless them and to bless their families and to grant them jannah without his inshallah um you