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What’s a Life Goal – 2
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المحتوى المقدم من Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center, Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid, and Islamic Center. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرة بواسطة Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center, Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid, and Islamic Center أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.
https://youtu.be/oIg8u1-E_FM Auto-generated transcript: So we're talking about the coming at or deciding on your life goal and as I mentioned to you yesterday or not yesterday I recorded yesterday but the last episode on this the first one that I suggested to you that you should narrow down your choices to not more than two, two different choices. So after that what you do is as much in-depth research about those choices as you possibly can. Research on different careers and so forth has become now thanks to the internet, thanks to social media and so on has become much easier than it was. So utilize that. Social media is generally harmful or negative but in this case it's useful. So utilize that and we do as much research as you can and find out about the two career choices that you have narrowed down to. Once you've done that part of that research you should have come up with the names of the top people in that profession and this should be part of your research so you would have you would have names. Pick three top ones of that. Now these are people who are in effect living your dream. They have been there done that they have achieved what you are setting out to achieve. They are at the goal and you are starting out on the path to get to the goal. Now I'm not suggesting to you that these people will give you you know their life is exact copy or exact model of what you should do with your life. No but it's the closest that you're going to get to that and you're looking at a success model. So you're looking at somebody who's had done that, who's struggled and who was successful. So obviously they will have wonderful things and potentially they will have a lot to to teach you. So take that and then contact them and request to be allowed to shadow them. Now this is very important because you want to get as much of a hands-on experience as much of a hands-on experience of the profession before you actually get into the profession and the way to do that is to shadow somebody who is in that profession. So if you want to become a you know bus driver for example or say a long distance 16-wheeler truck driver. So before you actually get a truck license and whatnot ask one of the truckers if you can ride with him ride with him and my experience of people is that most people who are successful are very open to sharing their lives and their struggles and their goals with anyone who is genuinely interested in listening to them and please notice my words genuinely interested not somebody who's sort of passing by no genuinely interested. So you need to convince that person that you are truly interested in learning from them. Once you convince them and it doesn't take long anyone worth his salt will figure out in the first you know 30 seconds of your conversation whether you're serious or not. So then request to shadow them. As I mentioned people are very willing and open to that and once they agree then you shadow them and do it for a few days maybe a week or so because otherwise you don't get it and get a clear idea of that profession because especially if there's something you want to do it would seem very exciting and and nice to begin with and before you can come to the painful aspects of it which every single profession has you would have got out and you would have got out with a wrong impression so you don't want to do that you want to make sure that you understand it fully and to understand fully you need to be to have enough of an experience the one week is still not enough but it's the best you can do so ask for that and then that one week must be the most serious week of your life be very very serious with them and with their time because their time is valuable and for you it's something which is even more valuable so don't treat that lightly they have taken the troubles to share their life with you so take it seriously now what does that mean in in practice it means that you show up before they show up so if they're wo...
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المحتوى المقدم من Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center, Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid, and Islamic Center. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرة بواسطة Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center, Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid, and Islamic Center أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.
https://youtu.be/oIg8u1-E_FM Auto-generated transcript: So we're talking about the coming at or deciding on your life goal and as I mentioned to you yesterday or not yesterday I recorded yesterday but the last episode on this the first one that I suggested to you that you should narrow down your choices to not more than two, two different choices. So after that what you do is as much in-depth research about those choices as you possibly can. Research on different careers and so forth has become now thanks to the internet, thanks to social media and so on has become much easier than it was. So utilize that. Social media is generally harmful or negative but in this case it's useful. So utilize that and we do as much research as you can and find out about the two career choices that you have narrowed down to. Once you've done that part of that research you should have come up with the names of the top people in that profession and this should be part of your research so you would have you would have names. Pick three top ones of that. Now these are people who are in effect living your dream. They have been there done that they have achieved what you are setting out to achieve. They are at the goal and you are starting out on the path to get to the goal. Now I'm not suggesting to you that these people will give you you know their life is exact copy or exact model of what you should do with your life. No but it's the closest that you're going to get to that and you're looking at a success model. So you're looking at somebody who's had done that, who's struggled and who was successful. So obviously they will have wonderful things and potentially they will have a lot to to teach you. So take that and then contact them and request to be allowed to shadow them. Now this is very important because you want to get as much of a hands-on experience as much of a hands-on experience of the profession before you actually get into the profession and the way to do that is to shadow somebody who is in that profession. So if you want to become a you know bus driver for example or say a long distance 16-wheeler truck driver. So before you actually get a truck license and whatnot ask one of the truckers if you can ride with him ride with him and my experience of people is that most people who are successful are very open to sharing their lives and their struggles and their goals with anyone who is genuinely interested in listening to them and please notice my words genuinely interested not somebody who's sort of passing by no genuinely interested. So you need to convince that person that you are truly interested in learning from them. Once you convince them and it doesn't take long anyone worth his salt will figure out in the first you know 30 seconds of your conversation whether you're serious or not. So then request to shadow them. As I mentioned people are very willing and open to that and once they agree then you shadow them and do it for a few days maybe a week or so because otherwise you don't get it and get a clear idea of that profession because especially if there's something you want to do it would seem very exciting and and nice to begin with and before you can come to the painful aspects of it which every single profession has you would have got out and you would have got out with a wrong impression so you don't want to do that you want to make sure that you understand it fully and to understand fully you need to be to have enough of an experience the one week is still not enough but it's the best you can do so ask for that and then that one week must be the most serious week of your life be very very serious with them and with their time because their time is valuable and for you it's something which is even more valuable so don't treat that lightly they have taken the troubles to share their life with you so take it seriously now what does that mean in in practice it means that you show up before they show up so if they're wo...
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×Auto-generated transcript:The fifth quality of Ibadur Rahman Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala z-zalib wa allatheena la yada'oon wa allahi ilaha nakhara wa la yaqutuloon an nafsa al-latihi harraba Allah illa bil haq wa la yaznoon wa main yafa'a z-zalika yalqa asama yuza'af lahul azaabu yawmal qiyabati wa yakhludh fiihi muhaana Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, And they are those who invoke not any God, not any Ilah along with Allah. They do not worship anyone other than Allah. They don't worship anyone along with Allah, nor do they kill any life that Allah has forbidden to be killed. Except for just cause, meaning this refers to a judge handing down capital punishment in a court of law after due process. It does not apply to anyone else. Anyone else taking the decision to shoot somebody or to kill somebody in Islam, this is haram. It is murder and it is a capital crime. So Allah is saying, and those who do not invoke, they don't worship anyone other than Allah. They don't worship anyone along with Allah, nor do they kill such life as Allah has forbidden, except for just cause, nor do they commit illegal sexual intercourse. And whoever does this shall receive the punishment. The torment will be doubled for him on the day of resurrection and he will abide therein in disgrace. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala warned us against committing all forms of disobedience and sins. It is a very big mistake to consider sins to be minor, because any sin is a disobedience of Allah, who Allahu akbar. So to think that, oh this is a small thing, it's not a small thing, everything is disobedience to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. If Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala decides to punish us, that small thing can become a big problem as far as we are concerned. Because the disobedience is not specific to the action, it is specific to who is being disobeyed. About the avoidance of sins, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, in tajtanibu kabahira ma tunhawnu anhu nukaffir ankum sayyiatikum wa nudkhilkum mudkhalan kareema. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, if you avoid the big sins, avoid the major sins which you are forbidden from, we shall forgive your small sins and admit you to our noble entrance which is jannah. But this is not a license to do all kinds of small things. It means that the Muslim will not do any, but somethings happen by mistake or you forget or something, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will forgive. Abu Hurairah radiya Allah anhu narrated in a hadith in Bukhari, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, avoid the seven great destructive sins. The people enquired, ya Rasulullah, what are those? Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, to join partners with Allah, to practice sorcery, magic and fortune telling and all that, to kill the life that Allah has forbidden except for a just cause as per law, to consume and deal in interest, to eat up the orphans wealth, to show one's back to the enemy and fleeing from the battle feed at the time of fighting, and to accuse chaste women and always when he says women, also with men, to accuse chaste women who never even think of anything touching chastity and they are good believers. The sixth quality, those who repent and turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and become obedient, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us among those who repent. Allah said, Allah said, accept those who repent and believe in Islam and do righteous deeds. For those Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will replace and change their sins with good deeds. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is oft forgiving, most merciful. When this ayat was revealed, Sayyidina Muhammad went out and announced and said, I am the best of you. So people said, how can you make this claim? We are all trying to do some good things. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, when you repent, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala changes the bad deeds into good deeds. And he said, I was the most evil of you. So therefore now I have the most good deeds. But don't do evil deeds with the hope of getting the reward.…
Auto-generated transcript:My dear brothers, sisters and elders, the series of khutbahs on Ibad-ur-Rahman is to give us a template to aim for and to ensure that we change ourselves and become Ibad-ur-Rahman and use the month of Ramadan al-Karim to power that change, to make it happen and make it happen faster than normal because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives us added benefits in the month of Ramadan. We spoke about three of the qualities of the Ibad-ur-Rahman. Today is the fourth. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Walladheena iza anfaqoo lam yusarifoo wa lam yaquturoo wa kaana bayna zalika qawamaa. Allah said which means they are the people who when they spend they don't show off, they are not extravagant nor are they stingy but they hold a medium way between those two extremes. The natural consequence of being focused on the akhiraas to spend in the path of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Like I said last Jum'ah I call this funds transfer. It's not going anywhere. It is your money, it remains your money. It is just going from one account to another account. Both the accounts belong to you. The other account is safer and the other account is accessible in the akhira. This one is not accessible in the akhira. So if you leave it in this account it will get left behind. But if you transfer it Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala promised to keep it safe and return it with his bonus. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said ma indaqum yanfadhu wa ma inda Allahi baq. wa la nazi anna alladheena sabaru ajrahum bi ahsani ma kaano yaamaloon. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said which means whatever you have will end. It will finish. It will perish. But whatever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has is everlasting and we will certainly reward the steadfast according to the best of their deeds. But remember if Allah gave us the reward for each deed according to its quality this would be justice. And I don't know how much reward we would get. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says for those who spend in his path Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will take one of their deeds which he liked very much and give that reward for all the deeds. Imagine the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said baqimu salata wa atu zakata wa ma tuqaddimu li anfusikum min khayrin tajidu inna Allah inna Allaha bi ma ta'amaloon wa vasil. Allah said which means establish the Salah and pay Zakat whatever you good whatever good you send forth for yourselves. And this refers to Salah, Zakat, it refers to sadaqat, it refers to all kinds of good things. You will find its reward with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And surely Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sees all that you do. Remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying you will find its reward. Allah is not saying you send me ten I give you ten. No. You send me ten I will give you the reward. What is the reward Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala promised? Minimum. man ja'abil hasanati falahu ashro am saliyya. You send one good thing Allah said I will give you ten times like that. And that is the basic minimum. Allah does not give less than that. And then Allah said one is to seven hundred and so on. Allah said yu da'ifu li mayyasha and Allah increases as He wants. So let's think about that whatever we spend in the path of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not only will Allah return that He will return it in multiple times according to His majesty and grace. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala encouraged us to make this funds transfer because before it is too late. And He said and He said Allah said spend of that which we have provided for you before a day comes when there will be no bargaining, no friendship, no intercession. And it is the people who deny who are the zalimun, they are the transgressors. He jalla jalaluhu the glorious and magnificent said about the reward that He gives to those who do the smallest of good. Allah said Allah said the likeness, the example of the one who spends, the people who spend their wealth in the path of Allah is like the example of...…
Auto-generated transcript:The reason why we should study the jihadis is because if you look at the punishments that Allah SWT prescribed, the azab, the punishments that He prescribed for the Manafiqin are even more than that on the mushrikhi and the kufr. If you see the ayat of Surah Tawbah by Allah SWT, it said even if you ask for forgiveness or eenamarra, seventy times Allah will not forgive them. That ayat came for? To Barakha. It came at the time when Uwais bin Salool, who was the father of Abdullah bin Uwais bin Salool, was a good sahabi, but Uwais bin Salool was the head of the Manafiqoon. So when Uwais bin Salool died, his son Abdullah came to the Prophet and he asked him for his gawad. He said, please give me that. I want to bury my father in it because I know what my father is. I hope Allah will have mercy on him because he is buried in your gawad. So the Prophet took off his shirt and gave it to him. Then Abdullah bin Uwais came and said, will you do sarathro janatha on my father? See the rahma of the Prophet, what kind of heart he had. Today when you talk about forgiving each other, you are back and forth. But see, think about this. Nobody caused him as much pain and as much suffering as Uwais bin Salool caused him in Madinah, including the Shahadah of the sahabah in Uhud. To a great extent, Uwais bin Salool was the reason because he took his people away. They all left Madinah to go to Uhud and halfway he took three, four hundred people of his people and he returned. So the Muslims were weakened. So you can say that one of the reasons, Allah SWT adores Allah, but one of the reasons why this calamity happened was because the Muslims were weak. And he caused him endless suffering despite that when his son Abdullah requested him, Aswad went and he performed salatul janatha on Uwais bin Salool. Say then, Omar had always been very particular about being, you know, everything that he was done. He literally stood in front and said, Ya Rasulullah, please don't do this. This man has caused you so much suffering. Why do you want to pray salatul janatha on him? Uwais said, move. He said, move. I will pray. And he prayed salatul janatha on him. I imagine this man is buried in the garment of Uwais. The salatul janatha, which is the dua-e-maffarat is done by the Rasul A.S. himself. Despite that, Allah SWT revealed Quran and Allah SWT said, even if you ask forgiveness for him 70 times, Allah will not forgive him. And then Allah SWT said, la taqoom ala qabri. Do not stand on their graves. Meaning do not do salatul janatha on him. No, forever. Never pray on these. That is why Rasul A.S. was given the names of the munafiqoon who he had confided this in Hudayfa bin Yaman Rudh Al Anu and Sayyidina Umar Rudh Al Anu constantly used to consult with Hudayfa Rudh Al Anu. And when somebody died, he would see if Hudayfa was in that, with the jama, then he would pray salatul janatha otherwise he would not pray. Now, you might say, these are people who at least they said they are Muslim, they said la ilaha illallah, they stood behind Rasul A.S. in Salat, they prayed behind Rasul A.S. and many of them were very particular. The thing is, the sincere person may not be so particular, but the one who is playing a game, he is very particular, he doesn't want to be caught. So even if a sincere person is not there, this man will be there. That doesn't tell. Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala looks at the kalu, at the kalu and if the kalb has nifak, if the kalb has lies in it, then this punishment is extremely severe. So Rasul A.S. mentioned three signs, he said, when he speaks, he lies, when he makes a promise, he breaks it, and when he is trusted, if he is trusted, he betrays the trust. As I was mentioning to you, look at it from, because these are general statements, they are not, Nabi Sahaja was not, here he is not saying, if he tells big lies or serious lies, it is lies. So whether it is small or big, it applies to everything. Similarly,…
Auto-generated transcript:My brother and sister, this is just a quick one to remind us to prepare for Ramadan. Allah SWT Jalla Jallalahu mentioned this month and He told us that He sent this month for a purpose. He said, Allah said, I have sent this Ramadan month. We have prescribed fasting upon you as we have prescribed fasting for people before you so that you may become Muttakoon. To have Taqwa is to have the concern continuously 24x7 for the pleasure of Allah SWT. To be concerned about Allah SWT's pleasure, to ensure that we do not do anything to encourage His displeasure. And therefore we must be very careful that that's the reason why I decided to say this ayat, to continuously monitor ourselves and say am I becoming a Muttakoon or not? The Ibadah in Islam, the prescribed worship in Islam of all the things which are prescribed are not to be done, they are not for their own sake. Each one has a reason for the reason why it's prescribed and each one has something that it brings with us. There is a benefit from that and we must therefore monitor ourselves to see whether these Ibadahs, whether we are getting this benefit for which they are designed. For example, for Salah, Allah SWT said, Allah said the Salah separates the person from all disobedience and all shameless things. So if I am praying five times a day, I must monitor myself and see am I being separated from Fawshat and Munkarat because if my life is still full of things which are prohibited, then there is something wrong with my Salah. I need to improve my Salah because this is what the Salah is supposed to do. About the siam, about fasting, Allah said, Allah said we have sent this fasting and prescribed it so that you become Muttakoon, so that you become people of Taqwa. So when I am in the month of Ramadan, especially of course this will be done throughout the year, but Ramadan comes as a reminder for us. So in Ramadan, I must question myself and say as a result of Ramadan, is my Taqwa improving or not? Monitor ourselves on a daily basis. Am I more concerned about the pleasure of Allah SWT than I used to be? Am I making more is the far? Am I more conscious of the mistakes that I make and I seek not to make the mistakes? And if I make the mistake, do I seek to make amends? Do I seek protection from Allah SWT for this? What am I doing? I think all of these things we must be conscious of and we must monitor ourselves. Now, Ramadan is a month that we need to thank Allah SWT for greatly because of the following Fadha'il of Ramadan. These are the following benefits of Ramadan. First of all, it is the month which is the Nuzul of the Quran. Allah SWT said, Allah SWT said in the Quran. Secondly, the reward for Fardh Ibadat and anything which is far, the reward is increased 70 times. So if you are praying Salatul Fajr, you are getting 70 times the reward and so on. And therefore, I must consciously increase the amount of, be conscious more of the Farai that I am doing. So the reward for Fardh is increased 70 times. The reward for Nawafil is equal to that of Fardh. This is something therefore we must increase our Nawafil. Increase the, you know, pray Tahajjud regularly, increase Nawafil Salat, increase the reading of Faham more and more, Zikr, all of these things we must increase continuously and consciously. Then, the gates of Jannah are opened and the gates of Jahandam are shut. So this is a very, you know, it's a very big blessing that Allah SWT has given us that in this month, Allah shuts the gate, opens the gates of Jannah and shuts the gate of Jahannam and the Shaitid are chained. Laylatu qadr, Allah gave us in this month, khayrun min al-fishar, Allah said the reward of this is more than that of the worship of 1000 months which is equal to about 83 years. So imagine one Laylatu qadr you get, you have got the reward of a lifetime of worship. And this means continuous worship for 1000 months which we couldn't even have done even if we had wanted to. And finally,…
Auto-generated transcript:Allah SWT took an oath by time. It's a general statement which includes all human beings. And it's a statement with emphasis. Allah is using the word inna which means verily, truly, surely. Again, I'm not sure. Inna linsana laf yukus. Illa allatheena amanoo wa amiloo salihat. Allah took an oath by time. And Allah SWT said, surely, definitely, without a doubt, all human beings, no matter where they are, no matter what race, what gender, what nationality, what color, what tribe, all humanity is in loss. They are losers. Everybody. Illa allatheena amanoo wa amiloo salihat. Except those who have Iman and who do good deeds. Right? It's not only about Iman. It's not only about doing good deeds. There must be a relationship between Iman and doing good deeds. Misabab al-amalus-salih huwa daliil ala al-imad. Nahnu naqul ishadu wa la ilaha illa Allah. Wama amal daliil ala al-karima taiba al-salah. Allah has said, except those who have faith and do good deeds. Not only those who have faith, not only those who do good deeds, because we have both in this world. We have people who are doing a lot of good, but they have no Iman. And we have people who have Iman, Alhamdulillah. Allah said two things. And the reason is because there is a direct connection between Iman and amal-us-salih. Between faith and good deeds. The good deed is the daliil for the faith. The good deed is the evidence that we have the faith. For example, we say, ashadu wa la ilaha illa Allah. There is no one worthy of worship except Allah. What is the daliil for this statement? Salah. So if somebody is saying ashadu wa la ilaha illa Allah, but he does not pray, then there is no daliil on the kalima. How do I say that only Allah is worthy of worship, but the time for Salah I don't pray, then where is this statement, statement has no meaning, right? This is a key character of Islam, where Allah created this alaka, this relationship between speech and action. So it's very simple. For example, if I say to you, you should always speak the truth. We should never tell lies. But then in some situation, I am telling lies. That what is the value of my word? Zero. You say, okay, you are saying this, we should tell, we should speak the truth, but you know, you are telling lies here. And then Allah said, wa tawasubil haqqi wa tawasubisaur. Those who make tawasubil haqqi wa tawasubisaur, those who invite towards and advise each other on the truth, for the truth, in line of the truth, in service of the truth, and those who advise each other to have patience, have perseverance, have persistence. These are not four separate things, these are all linked. So first is Iman, second is amal-us-saleh, good deeds. In the amal-us-saleh, what are the supreme good deeds? The first and foremost of it is da'awat ila al-haqq, da'awa ila al-haqq, tawasubil haqq. Da'awa ila al-haqq, tawasubil haqq. Yani ashadhu an la ilaha illa Allah, ashadhu anna Muhammad rasool Allah. To call people to Islam, this is the highest of good deeds that we can do. And that is why this is linked to sabar. Because this is the only good deed where you will need sabar. If you feed people, if you clothe people, if you give people money, if you build houses for people and so on, you don't need sabar because you get a lot of applause and people will love you. But when you call people to eternal benefit, when you call people to eternal benefit, part of that will be you will warn people against what they are doing. When Allah SWT commanded Rasool AS and said, qom fa anzir. Allah did not say qom fa abshir. Allah did not say stand up and give bashaal. No, He said stand up and warn them. They are doing wrong, warn them. Allah did not say give them good news. No. Warn them. The moment you warn people, the moment you invite towards Allah SWT, the first thing you will get is opposition. This is standard everywhere. First thing you will get is opposition. That is where you need sabar. When you get opposition,…
Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, if there is one thing that Allah has emphasized in the Quran over and over and over again, including taking an oath by that thing and that thing is time. Allah took an oath by time. He said, Allah took an oath by time. And Allah mentioned time in the Quran, many, many places. And Allah mentioned activities that we do which are which translates into useless activities, pointless activities, just play and games. Now think about this. Why is this huge emphasis on time? The whole issue about the Akhira. What is the one big difference between the Dunya wa Al-Akhira? Dunya is temporary, Akhira is permanent. Means what? Time. Dunya is for a short time, Akhira is for a long time. Time. My question I ask myself when you is, what do we do with our time? If I ask any of you here and you don't have to answer me, it's for yourself. Can you tell me from the time you woke up today till now, what did you do the whole day? If I make a table, which I do when I teach the time management class and the Live World class, we actually make a table every half hour. On the time you wake up in the morning, say 4 o'clock, 4.30, 5, 5.30, 6, 6.30, 7, 7.30, 8, all the way down to when you go to sleep. And say every half hour what were you doing, right? Today, I'm not talking about 10 years ago, today, what did we do? How many of us can fill that table? And if you cannot fill that table, I'm not saying you're doing anything halal, right? But you don't know what you were doing. You forgot. So it was something which was so, you know, routine, maybe thoughtless, maybe pointless, I just went and the time passed and finished. Now this is a loss, huge loss. Because time, out of all the things that Allah has given us, time is the only thing which is non-renewable, which is irrecoverable. Once it is gone, it is gone, finished, khalas. Whether it went in a good thing or a bad thing, it is not important, it is gone. Everything else you can get back to some extent. Wealth you can get back, you can get back all that you lost, you can get back 100 times more, 1000 times more, billion times more. There are many, any number of stories of people who were wealthy and they went to become beggars and they became super wealthy and so on. So we know this. Even health, Allah cures us, but health is you lose your health. Then Allah cures you, you get it back, right? Jihad sent me a video of this guy who is in his, who is 75 or 78 and he is deadlifting 300 kilograms. So, health you will get back. What you will not get back is time. Is time. Now where is the maximum, I call these time killers, where is the maximum amount of time that we spend which goes wasted? Two things. One is useless conversation. Two is arguments, discussions, useless, pointless conversation. Which includes social media of course, right? I did a calculation, I used 25 dollars an hour as a wage. And I did a calculation that if you spend two hours a day in any activity, that's 50 hours, 50 you know dollars, right? Two hours a day is 50 dollars. In a lifespan of 50 years, that amounts to 950,000 dollars. Close to a million dollars. Just two hours a day. 950,000, close to a million dollars. Think about how many things we spend two hours a day. If you make today's time table, I can guarantee you there is probably not one person in this room who knows what happened to two hours. I know because I structure my day, every single day I can tell you for every five minutes what I do. That's very, I do it because I do it consciously. But I can guarantee you, two hours have gone somewhere in your life you don't know. That two hours is gone, that two hours is worth 50 bucks, multiplied by 50 years, 950 dollars, one million bucks. So where do we spend our time? Useless conversations. So I have a solution for this. My solution is three things. Three questions you have to ask. The moment anybody starts a topic of a conversation, suppose somebody says,…
Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu wa barakatuhu. As-salamu alaykum wa barakatuhu wa barakatuhu. Wa ma ba'du. My brothers and sisters, today, 9 o'clock in the morning, we had 60 students and 10 teachers. From the Hildale Charter School of East Hampton. All Christians, some Jews, all white. I think maybe a couple of them were probably Spanish or Sontobalahan. And they came here, they sat here. I'm always amazed at the level of adab that there is in these people. They all sat, they insisted on sitting on the ground. All of them sat on the ground, including the teachers. We told the teachers, if you want to sit on the chairs, most welcome. They all sort of sat on the floor. Everyone had covered. And absolutely still, not moving, not fidgeting. These are all maybe 9 years up to about 15 or so. No? Both of us were here, everyone. Completely wrapped attention. So anyway, I spoke to them about Islam and so on. And then they said questions. So they asked various questions. They asked about the funerals. How is it done in Islam? They asked about, is there a sabbath, a day of rest? And so on, so on. I won't tell you all the questions and all the answers. But one question which really hit me in the heart. One kid asked me, that kid must be maximum maybe 8 years old. He tells me, what gives you the greatest joy? A jeep. 8 year old child. He says, what gives you the greatest joy? So I said, reading and reciting the Kalam of Allah. This gives me the greatest joy. Because then I feel closest to Allah. That's the next question he asked me. He said, what makes you feel closest to God? I said, this makes me feel closest to Allah, reading and reciting the Kalam of Allah. We should really reflect. And these are all completely, they have no exposure to Islam. Whatever they are hearing about Islam, you know what they are hearing or what they would be hearing in the public media and so on. So I say to you and myself, see the glory and magnificence from the Kalam of Allah. See how this sort of the number for example, Allah swt, it starts with a question, what is all this confusion? What are they asking? What are they arguing about? And they are arguing about Nabai-il-Hazib, the great announcement, the great day of judgment. And then Allah swt, series of ayats from Alam Najal, Lardha, Mihadha all the way to where Allah swt starts talking about the Akhira. So that whole series of ayats have to do with this dunya. Things which we see on a daily basis. Allah says the night for sleep, Allah gave you sleep, the day for to earn your living. Allah sends rain from the heavens and your crops grow and so on. Daily things which we see on a daily basis, which we ignore mostly because we see it every day, it doesn't strike us, we don't reflect. But Allah swt is pointing those things out as His signs. And then Allah swt talks about the yarat. Inna yawmal fasli kaana miqaata, yawma yunfa qufis suri fata toona afwaaja. Fawti hati samaw, fa kaana abuwaaba, like doors. Allah will open. I don't know how many of you remember I mentioned a book called Hyperspace by Michio Kagu. He's written the book. In that he argues, he says that when you look at this expansion theory which is called the Big Bang, which fundamentally basically the theory says that there was a big explosion as a result of which planets were created and they are moving away, expanding away from that center. And this expansion will continue until they run out of the original energy which was there to make them expand and then they will come together, contract. And the logical reasoning is that when they come to contract they will all come together and they will like a black hole become one and complete annihilation. Michio Kagu says the only way to escape that annihilation is to find a way of going out of this dimension, finding doors to leave this dimension. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala used the word door. Kaana abuwaaba.…
Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, in a Hadith narrated by Anas bin Malik, somebody asked Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam, they said which is the best fasting after Ramadan? And he said it is the fasting in Shaban in preparation for Ramadan. So we are in Shaban. I remind myself and you, let us fast in Shaban as much as we can. Of course Mondays and Thursdays and the three yamulbeeth, 14th, 15th, 16th, Alhamdulillah this is good but try and fast as much as you can. The only caveat is don't fast till the end and just go into Ramadan. There is a recommendation, Nabi Salman sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said don't differentiate between the two months. So the last three, four days, the last week, do not fast. And then we start fasting again in Ramadan. But that still leaves us three weeks from tomorrow until the third week is over, until the 21st of Shaban. Try to fast as much as you can. This is the best of fasting. And they asked him the same Hadith, they asked him which is the best charity and he said the charity that is given in Ramadan. So please give us as much as we can. Remember, it's not ours. It's going to go anyway. Right? Just yesterday somebody called me and said this is what my grandfather left and my father and my uncles are going to the attorneys and to the court. I said, Subhantam, I mean, you imagine. For the last three months, we have been doing this for the last three months. And the grandfather didn't make a, he didn't make a, even he made a, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's hokum is there, the relatives' laws are clear, so what do you want? But we want to use our own. Don't do this. It is not yours. It is not mine. It is going to be left behind. All we are doing is giving accounts. I always say that I do. I remind myself and I say to people, you are not giving anything to anybody. It's your own. Please understand this. Right? I gave a donation to the masjid. No, no, no, no, no. You didn't give any donation to the masjid. You took your amount, your money from account here and shifted it to the account with Allah. That's it. I gave charity to somebody. I gave money to some poor guy. No, no, no. You didn't give anything. You did not give anything. It is yours. It is still yours. It was in this account. It has been moved to the other account. That's it. So what's the problem? Shaitan comes in and says, you are giving it away. It's going. It's going. Going where? Going into my account. Allah said on the day of judgment you are going to fight it with me and I will return that to you in keeping with my majesty and grace. So where is it gone? It's not gone anywhere. Why do you think the Sahaba gave the way they gave? Just think about this. People are not nuts, right? They were as intelligent as we are. Why didn't they give? They understood this thing. They understood we are not giving anything. That's why I keep saying don't use the word sacrifice. For the sake of religion, sacrifice. Sacrifice is done by the dead person you have eaten. The dead person died. Your tree died. The poor tree didn't get anything. This is called sacrifice. The only sacrifice is Tandoori chicken. The chicken died and you ate it and it was good for you and the poor chicken died. It gave its life for nothing. There is no sacrifice for the deen. There is no sacrifice for Islam. Allah says minimum I will give you 1 is to 10. Where is the sacrifice? You are getting 1000% return. You call it a sacrifice? What is it? We are only transferring from this account to that account. That's it. Period. Transfer as much as you can because when you leave this world, whatever is left in this account stays here. Why do you want to leave it behind? For what? Take it with you, man. Take it with you. When people ask me, can we take it? We can't take this with us. Of course we can take it with us. Don't be wealthy. I say try poverty. Go straight on the street for one day and you will understand the meaning of that. Wealth is good. Read my lips.…
Auto-generated transcript:My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders, Alhamdulillah today is the first of Shaban, which means that we have exactly one month for Ramadan. May Allah give us the tawfiq to prepare for it, to make and take the maximum benefit out of Ramadan al-Fariq inshallah. We have Sayyidina Abada bin Samit radiya Allah Anu, he reports in Kanzul Ammal that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala liyya wa sallam taught us one dua at the approach of Ramadan. And that dua is Allahumma sallimni li ramadana wa sallim ramadana li wa sallimhu li mutaqabala. Allahumma sallimni li ramadana wa sallim ramadana li wa sallimhu li mutaqabala. Allah save God Ramadan for me, save God me for Ramadan and save God Ramadan for me and accept Ramadan from me. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala this dua for all of us inshallah. Safeguarding ourselves for Ramadan means to correct ourselves and get ready to meet this month in a state where we can take full advantage of it. Which means ensure your schedules, your working hours, what you do and so on and so forth to make sure that there is time. And also correct ourselves in terms of our behaviour and our approach and our shaukh for our, you know, the love for this deen and the love for the rida of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So we can exert ourselves in order to get the rida of Allah. Today I want to do the second part of the khumbah that I started last Juma' which is Ibadur Rahman. The qualities of the slaves of Allah, the special slaves of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The reason why we are doing this is because Ramadan comes for this purpose. Ramadan comes to make us Muttaqun. Ya ayyu alladheena amanu kutiba alaykumu siyamu kama kutiba ala alladheena min kabilikum la alakum tattaqun. Qara jallahu ala, o you believe Ramadan has been sent, fasting has been prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may become al Muttaqun. You may become people who are conscious of Allah's presence in your life. You may become people who are conscious of and who are willing to do whatever it takes to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. People whose sole criterion for every decision, the question they ask themselves before they say anything or do anything, across their life, is what? Will Allah be pleased with this? No other question. Will Allah be pleased with this? If the answer is yes, Allah will be pleased with this inshallah. No problem, go ahead and do it. If the answer is no, Allah will not be pleased, then no matter who says what, no matter who says what, including yourself, including your own afts, we do not do it. And if the answer is that I'm not sure, then we don't do it until we become sure, until we verify and satisfy ourselves of the correct position and then we take the correct position. This is the meaning of being a Muttaqiq. We spoke about the first quality last Jum'ah, the second quality that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned, He said, He said, He said, And these are those people who spend their night, spend their time of the night before their Rabb in sajdah and qiyam. This is the most reliable sign of those who love Allah. We are going to come and we will be given a test in Ramadan when we come for Tarawi. Tarawi is Qiyam-ul-Lail. Qiyam-ul-Lail in Ramadan is called Tarawi. And we will be tested. There will be those among us who will take full advantage of it and stay with the Imam till the end. And the Prophet said, the one who prays and stays with the Imam till the end, Allah will forgive his sins. Those who will take full advantage of that, those who will revel and be joyous in their hearts, will feel with the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, listening to the recitation of the Imam. And Alhamdulillah, Allah has given us a beautiful Imam with a fantastic qilad. So no complaints about that. So Alhamdulillah, there will be those. And may Allah protect us. I hope there will not be those who will say, shorten the recitation, speed it up,…
Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. Peace and blessings be upon the honourable prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and upon his family and his companions, and he is very much in peace. In the next lecture, in the book of Fitna, in the book of Zunan ibn Majah, Abu Hurayla, may Allah be pleased with him, said, The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and upon his family and his companions, said, Islam has begun to be strange, and it will come back as it began, so be kind to the stranger. Or as the Prophet said, peace be upon him. In the book of Fitna, the book of trials and tribulations, in Zunan ibn Majah, Abu Hurayla narrates that Rasulullah said, Islam began as something strange, and it will return to being something strange. Give glad tidings, give the good news of Thuwa to the people, to the strangers, to the people the world will call strangers. Thuwa is a tree in Jannah. The point I want to make is that if you take this Alice, and if you map it onto what I was telling you the other day, the secret of success is to differentiate, right? You remember that? Three, four days back in my khatira, I said differentiate, because if you are like everybody else, then you are one grain of sand, one grain of rice in a sack. Differentiate, stand out. A flag is a piece of cloth, right? What is a flag? It is a cloth, and if the flag gets dirty and you wash it and you hang it on the line, clothesline, and along with the flag is your shirt and your trousers and something else, and if a soldier is passing by, if somebody is passing by, they will not salute the flag. Nobody salutes a flag which is on a clothesline, right? But if the flag is flying high on the flagpole, then people salute the flag. Don't talk about whether saluting the flag is jahez or not jahez. I'm talking about what people... The problem with giving Muslims advice is everything gets converted into some masala or fiqh. Forget that. The flag is recognized as a symbol of the nation only when it is flying high on the flagpost. Same flag. Flag hasn't changed. You didn't change the color of the flag or the nature of the cloth. No. Same flag. When it is on a clothesline, when it is, within quotes, hanging out, nobody respects it. Nobody respects it. But the same piece of cloth, when it is flying high, it becomes a symbol of the nation and it is saluted. Differentiation creates brand. Brand inspires loyalty. Loyalty enables influence. You remember I said this? This is the manifestation in our life today of the hadith, Fatuba Lil Kodaba. So who is the gharib? Gharib in Arabic means ajeeb, strange. Not gharib in Urdu means poor, no. It means strange, ajeeb, not usual, not like everybody else. So who is the gharib? Who are the gharaba? In a society that is based on corruption, a person of integrity is gharib. He is a stranger. Everybody takes bribes? He says, I don't take bribes. You are a stranger. In a society where even the ulama, even the scholars take money to give khutba of Juma, they take money to glorify Allah, if you say I glorify Allah only for the love of Allah, you are a stranger. Gharib. In a society which is characterized with promiscuity and shamelessness, a person of dignity and honor is gharib, stands out. In a society which is based on cruelty, on oppression, on grabbing people's wealth and grabbing people's dignity and violating their rights and so on and so forth, a person who stands up and says I will not do that and I will not allow you to do that is gharib. He is a stranger. In a society that is sunk and drowning in hubbu dunya, in the love of the dunya, where people are, they have no problem making money in ways which Allah has declared to be haram. A person who stands up and says no, I will earn only halal. I will not earn haram. I will not earn haram because Allah is my raziq.…
Auto-generated transcript:My dear brothers and sisters, today is the first of Sha'ban. Alhamdulillah, the moon was sighted very clearly in many parts of the United States. We are very happy that we have started the month of Sha'ban. One month left for Ramadan al-Karim. So let us make sure that we spend this time in a way which prepares us for Ramadan to be able to take full advantage of the month of Ramadan. Sayyidina Ubaidah bin Samit reports that Rasulullah used to teach the Sahaba this dua at the approach of Ramadan. Safeguard me for the month of Ramadan and safeguard the month of Ramadan for me and accept it from me. So, Salim ni li Ramadan, safeguard me for Ramadan means by making me see the month of Ramadan fit and healthy and able to take advantage of the month. Wasallim ramadan li, safeguard the month of Ramadan for me means by making the conditions in it such that I take maximum benefit from it. And then wasallim hu li mutaqabala means accept it from me. Another Malik radiAllahu anhu narrated that Rasulullah was asked which fasting is the most virtuous, the most Mubarak, the most beneficial after Ramadan and he said Shaban in honor of Ramadan. So Alhamdulillah we are in the, today is the first day of Shaban. Let us make sure that we fast as much as we can this month. Rasulullah did not like fasting in Shaban and continuing to the end and then directly going off into Ramadan. He didn't like that. He recommended and he commanded that we take a clear break between Shaban and Ramadan. So the last three, four days of Shaban, maybe a week of Shaban, do not fast and then start fasting again the first Ramadan inshallah. But that still leaves us three weeks. So let us try to fast as much as possible in those three weeks, if not all the three weeks, definitely Mondays and Thursdays and then the Yomul Bid, the White Nights which is 13th, 14th and 15th of the month. And Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam they asked him also which charity is the best and he said the charity in Ramadan. So this is the thing that I want to remind myself and you. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to help us to make the best of this month of Shaban and try and do our best to prepare ourselves for the month of Ramadan. My brothers and sisters, we have a whole month to plan and plan our schedule, plan our working hours, plan our free time, plan our priorities, do some extra work and finish it off so that in Ramadan you'll be free. And then make sure that we fast and we pray and we read extra Quran and we make extra dhikr and we send extra Salat and Salam on Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and so on all through Ramadan. And the way to do that is to start now and get into the flow of it so that it becomes easy as we go along. At least alhamdulillah here, even everywhere, at least in Northern Hemisphere it's all winter months so the weather is not too hot. Southern Hemisphere, Australia, South Africa, it's the opposite where they're going into their hotter months. May Allah make it easy for all of us inshallah. And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept, to give us ikhlas in niya and make it easy for us in every way and be pleased with us and to forgive our shortcomings and our sins and to enable us to make the best of this month of Sha'ban and then of course as Ramadan comes the month of Ramadan.…
Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honor of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions. Peace and blessings be upon him. My brothers and sisters, Rasulullah A.S. told us in the hadiths that he said if a person wakes up in the morning with good health, body is working, he has a roof over his head meaning he is safe, and he has food for that day, that one day. He said it is as if the whole world has been collected for him. What is the condition? Body is functioning, he is not paralyzed or something, he is not lost. He has a roof over his head, without sleeping on the street, and he has enough food for that one day, on the next day. You can see the words. Mabeeza Rasool did not say that it is good for him, he should be satisfied. He said it is as if the whole world has been collected for him. That means he has no other need. Now think about this, why would Navasura Sam say as if the whole world is collected? Why would he say as if he has no other need? Seriously, if you think about it, if you look at ourselves and see the things that we are worried about, everybody has got some worry. For how many people is the worry about today? The reason we don't have worry about today is today is in front of us. So there is no need to worry. If I don't have food now, I will say, okay, let me go find some food. Or today I will fast, I don't need the food. Where is the worry? The worry is for the tomorrow. Always, tomorrow. Tomorrow what will happen? So and so will become President, so and so will become Prime Minister, this party is in power, that party is in power, stock market is going up, stock market is going down. How about tomorrow? But what did the Holy Prophet say and what did Allah say about the tomorrow? He said there is no tomorrow. Tomorrow is? This world, the Holy Prophet said, live in this world, like somebody who is travelling on a path. He said a man is on a journey, he just stopped under a tree for some shade, for a little while, then he is moving, that tree is for his life. He is on this journey. So the problem with worrying about tomorrow is that tomorrow may never happen. First of all it may not happen, secondly even if it happens, what you are worrying may not happen. And after all we have faith in Allah SWT, we make dua, we pray the hajj, we give sadhakaat and so on and so forth. Where is the, don't we have even at least that much of Iman on ourselves or not? Confidence in ourselves, even in Allah SWT? Then why are we praying? If we think the salat will not be accepted, why are we praying? We pray because this expectation is, alhamdulillah, inshallah Allah will accept. So our problem and stress is because of one or two things. One is because of the past. You are thinking about the past, you are worrying about the past, so and so said this to me, so and so said that to me. I did this, I did that. Now if it is something you did for which you need to make istighfar and tawa, make istighfar and tawa, then forget about it. If you need to redress some wrong gifts, give back something you took from somebody, give it back and finish with it. People's opinion, so and so said this about me, that person thinks this and that, doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Let people think. In any case you have no control over what anybody thinks. Why you worry about it? Do it. Let them think. So past is, that is the past, alright? Khalas. Take from it whatever is good, finish it, make istighfar and tawa, over. Future? We don't even know whether it will happen. Now the real future, that's why I say, define your tomorrow. What is tomorrow? Seriously make this definition. If I say tomorrow, what do I mean? Do I mean the 27th of January 2025 or do I mean tomorrow as in the akhirah?…
Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the ayat which I recited before you from surah al-Farqan, described nine qualities of His special slaves, al-Ibad ur-Rahman. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for His help in cultivating these qualities and taking the right exit on the road on which we are travelling so that we will be entitled to the beautiful destination on the road that He, jalla jalaluhu, chose for us. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to include us among those who He called al-Ibad ur-Rahman. These nine qualities are as follows. One, those who walk on the earth in humility and dignity and when the foolish address them they say salaam. Two, those who spend the night before their Rabb in sajdah and qiyam. Three, those who say our Rabb a word from us the torment of Jahannam. Verily its torment is ever an inseparable permanent punishment. Number four, those who when they spend are neither extravagant nor stringy but hold a medium way between those extremes. Five, those who do not invoke and do not worship any other god, any other ilah, any other deity along with Allah, either instead of Allah or along with Allah, nor do they kill such life as Allah has forbidden except for just cause and nor do they commit illegal sexual intercourse. Premarital sex and post and extra marital sex in Islam are both haram. Number six, those who repent and believe in Islam and do righteous deeds. Number seven, those who do not witness falsehood and if they pass by some evil play or evil talk, they pass by it with dignity. Eight, those who when they are reminded of the ayat, the signs of the Kalab of Allah, they are not deaf and blind to that. And nine, those who say oh our Rabb bestow upon us from our spouses and our offspring, those who will be the comfort of our eyes and make us leaders for the Muttaqun. To those people Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, ˹O˺ laika yujuzawna al-ghurfa ta bima sabaru wa yulaqquna fiha tahiyyatan wa salaamah, khalideena fiha hasunat mustaqarran wa mukama. Those will be rewarded with the highest place in Jannah because of their patience, because of the decisions that they took. Therein they will be met with greetings and word of peace and salaam and respect, abiding therein excellent it is an abode and as a peace and as a place to dwell. I remind myself and you of one salient fundamental fact and that is that no good can come out of disobeying Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. I repeat, record it, write it down. No good can come out of the disobedience of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. If you are doing something which amounts to disobedience of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, because you think that whatever else you are doing instead of that will benefit you, I stand as a witness today and before Allah that I want you. It will not benefit you, it will harm you. And Allah is my judge and Allah is your judge and Allah is my witness and Allah is your witness. The first quality that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned here is those who walk on the earth with humility and dignity, not with arrogance, not as if they own the earth. People who remember, who are we? Listen carefully, who are we? Look at yourself in the mirror. I am so and so. My net worth is bigger than Elon Musk's. At least imaginary, right? You can imagine that. My net worth is so much, my house costs so much, my car costs so much. I have so many degrees, blah, blah, blah, blah, whatnot, whatnot, whatnot. I asked you the question when my Sheikh asked me, and he asked the whole group of us. And I was a little kid, I must have been maybe 10 years old. So he wasn't even talking to me, he was talking to the whole group. My Sheikh said, when you get up in the morning and you need to go to the toilet, and you think you are powerful, control that. Say I won't go. I am powerful. I am the king of the world. I will not go. He said, that is how powerful you are. You cannot even control what is inside your own body.…
Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. My dear respected brothers, sisters and elders, we are in the month of Rajab and we have between now and Ramadan al-Kareem, one month and a few days. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give us baraka in Rajab and Shaaban. May Allah give us Ramadan al-Kareem with good health, with time and with a deep dedication to attaining the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Because about Ramadan al-Kareem, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the accursed. I have written the fasting for you as I have written for those before you, that you may become righteous. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said fasting has been prescribed upon you as it was prescribed upon those before you. What's the purpose? So that you may become righteous. So that you may become people who live by the overarching, by the superior, by the completely overwhelming principle and criterion for every decision in their lives, which is, does it please Allah? The definition of the Muttaqi is the one who only concern is, does anything I say and do, does it please Allah? Because he is afraid of displeasing Allah. He's not afraid of Allah. He's afraid of displeasing Allah. He's afraid of displeasing Allah because he or she loves Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala more than anyone or anything else. So what is this standard? We want to become Muttaqun, may Allah make us Muttaqun insha'Allah. But what is the standard, what are we aiming at? And to share that in my understanding with you, I decided to do today's khutbah and insha'Allah the khutbah going all the way into Ramadan insha'Allah, on the standard of the Muttaqun which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala described in the Quran, in detail and specifically in Surat al-Furqan and he called them Al-Ibadur Rahman. Who are the Muttaqun? They are the special slaves of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, jalla jalaluhu, Al-Ibadur Rahman. I remind myself and you that it doesn't require an explanation to realize that the road that we are travelling on, whichever road it is, can only take us to the destination that it connects with. If we don't want to go to that destination, we have to change the road. Not merely continue on the same road but make dua for a different destination. Doesn't work. The dua has to come with a dawa. All reminders like this one and anything else that we get, we get it all the time. These are signposts along the road telling us where we are headed. And announcing exits if we want to change direction. Finally but however, there will come a time when we pass the last exit, after which there is no exit until we reach the destination that we chose. Remember that the one who ignored all exit signs cannot complain that he had no chance to get off the road. I ask Allah SWT to save us from ourselves. Let us introspect and change our ways so that we can take the right exit and go on the road that leads to the Rida of Allah SWT and Jannatul Firdaus. Insha'Allah. Allah SWT said in His blessed kitab, in His blessed kitab, Al-Kalam Al-Majid wa Al-Furqan Al-Hameed, Al-Quran Al-Kareem, in one of the most beautiful surahs, He mentioned these people, these special people who He honored by calling them His slaves, Al-Ibad Al-Rahman. And Allah SWT said, And when the ignorant people address them, And when the ignorant people address them, they say, Salam. And those who grow up prostrating and standing before their Lord, And those who say, Our Lord, turn away from us the punishment of Hell. Indeed, its punishment is a delusion. The people are prostrate and standing, And those who, when they spend, do not spend and do not spend, and there is a dispute between them. And those who argue with Allah about no one else, and do not kill the soul that Allah has forbidden except by truth, and do not commit adultery, and whoever does that will meet the punishment. The punishment will be doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection,…
https://youtu.be/WU80Kn2IiVE Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and upon his family and companions, and upon the many and short-lived. I am walking in Meadul-e-Nakyu Park. There is a blue jay that is flying from branch to branch. The undergrowth is too thick. Not thick, but there is a lot of drinks and dry branches. What I can hear is that blue jay and the couple, other friendly bees are flying around. It's absolutely beautiful atmosphere, which is minus seven degrees Celsius. As you can see, there is snow everywhere, except where it has been removed. It hasn't snowed recently, so this snow is about two or three days old. But the temperatures haven't risen at all, so it's not melted. What fell is still there. So you can't really walk on... I can't walk on the paths that I usually walk on. These are the main roads inside the park, which have been plowed and cleared. So I'm walking on them. Couple of things. One is, in terms of career planning, the program that I did recently, a live role, some questions that came to me, which I want to address. One question was, I emphasized there and I always emphasize that it's extremely important to have a main marketable, saleable skill that is yours, that you are licensed on, that you train on, that you're licensed on, and that skill which can help you earn money. One main skill. Now it's okay if you just have that one skill, but you might say, Well, you know, I'm also interested in something else and I'll give you some live examples. So what about that? I said, no problem. If you're interested in it, by all means pursue it, do it, but have that main skill with you. So the main skill is your bread and butter, and the other one that you're doing is the jam. So you need, you can do without the jam if you need to, but you can't do without the bread and butter. So make sure that you have your bread and butter in place before you go after the jam. To give you an example, I'm talking about America, Canada, all these places. Some of the most, some of the best skills to learn. I mean, I would learn if I wasn't my age and if I didn't already have my main skill, which is probably one of the only things that AI can never touch. And that is to be paid for your life experience translated into somebody else's life, which they can use. And that's my definition of consulting. So anyway, one of the best skills to learn is anything to do with living. So plumbing, electrical engineering, carpentry, you know, all that kind of stuff. In this country, heating systems and air conditioning systems. So I say to young people, get that skill. Now in this country, in our country, we have this very false sense of intraday with regard to these jobs. And you say, oh, bacha plumber hai kaise bholinge. Rishwas Khada so bol sakte. Plumber hai nahi bol sakte. This is the kind of garbage that got us to where we are. So there's no infraday, there's nothing wrong in doing a job and doing it well. So get us, get a license in any of these and there will be many out there. So I'm not telling you to restrict yourself to just these four. Plumbing, electricals, carpentry and air conditioning, heating systems. There can be many other things, but check for that. What is your criterion of assessing? Assessing. In my view, the criterion of assessing is the product that you are delivering must be a product which is essential to life. It must not be a product which is a discretionary buy for your customer. The customer has come to you and he has no choice. You are fixing his life for him. He comes to you when he has a problem and you are fixing that problem. So the benefit is that you get the benefit of fixing the problem. The customer does not grumble about paying you.…
مرحبًا بك في مشغل أف ام!
يقوم برنامج مشغل أف أم بمسح الويب للحصول على بودكاست عالية الجودة لتستمتع بها الآن. إنه أفضل تطبيق بودكاست ويعمل على أجهزة اندرويد والأيفون والويب. قم بالتسجيل لمزامنة الاشتراكات عبر الأجهزة.