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--- *This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. * --- In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honor of the Prophets and Messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and upon his family and companions, and he has accepted many, many. Let's read the next one. We have this challenge in this society, that challenge in this society, there is this temptation, this fitna, that fitna, and so on and so on and what shall I do? How can I keep myself safe from the different fitna, different tests, different temptations in this society? So I remind myself in you to keep yourself safe is very simple. It is not, not difficult. So first of all, stop, stop saying it is difficult. It is not difficult. Right? You hear this all the time, oh it is so tough, so difficult. No, it's not difficult. Who told you it is difficult? Very easy. It is very easy as long as I remember and remind myself that one day if I live in this place, Rockford, and I die here, then they will bring my body to this Masjid, and Sheikh Harah, abidullah, he will read my Janaza. Yes? If I am not here, if I am somewhere, some Masjid somewhere or some place, somebody will read my Salatul Janaza and I will be in my cover. And I will be alone before Allah. If I remember that, then there is no fitna which is so difficult that I cannot overcome, with fitna. I have to ask myself, see that's why Allah SWT mentioned something in Suratul Alaq at the end, one small ayah. Alam ya alam bi an la Allah ya ra. The Azbab and Nuzul of this ayah, this ayah came for Abu Jahl. Allah said does he not know that Allah is watching? Alam ya alam bi an la Allah ya ra. Does he not know that Allah is seeing? But we know the Kalamullah, Azbab and Nuzul, alhamdulillah, it comes for a reason there, but that applies to all of humanity till the end of time. So Alam ya alam bi an la Allah ya ra is not only for Abu Jahl, it's for me, it's for you, for everyone. I must remind myself, am I not aware that Allah is watching? So if I am doing something good, I am doing Tilawatul Quraar, am I aware Allah is watching? Yes, Allah is watching, alhamdulillah. But if I am committing some sin, may Allah protect us from committing sin, but if I am committing some sin, I am doing some gheeba, I am doing some namim, I am doing something, whatever it is. Alam ya alam bi an la Allah ya ra. Am I not aware that my Rabb is watching Jalla Jalaluh? Then how can I do gheeba about my brother? How can I play some politics and try to put this one down and that one up? How can I do that? When my Rabb is watching Jalla Jalaluh? This religion of ours, the Islam, this is not the name of a philosophy. This is not hadhi, laisa falsafa, laisa nazariya. It is the religion, the way, the way of Muhammad ﷺ. This is not a philosophy, it is not something that you know. And that is why this deen is about practice, amal. Like I gave you the example yesterday, I think, there is somebody who knows about Judo. He knows everything, how Judo started, who was the first, and so on and so on. And maybe he has a whole book of Judo which he memorized completely. Then he goes on the street, somebody holds him up, he gets into some fight and he is flat on the floor, gone. You say, Asif Khan, you know so much about Judo. That is the problem. He knows about Judo, he does not know Judo. He does not know how to fight, he knows about it. Same thing, if I know about Islam, but I never practice Islam, I never pray, but you ask me about Salah, I will give you a three-hour lecture on Salah. All the principles, all the rules, and the Sunnah, and the Fadha, and everything else, if you leave it, this happens, that Alhamdulillah, MashaAllah, you know all this about Salah. But the most important is, I am going this way. Where are you going? No, I have got some work, by shop. You know all this about Salah,

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Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #10

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Auto-generated transcript:In the middle of the ayat relating to fasting, where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala described and mentioned the different rules of fasting and so on and so forth. In the middle of all that, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed this beautiful ayatul kareema. In surat al-Baqarah, ayat number 186, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, When my slaves ask you, O Muhammad s.a.w, about me, I am truly near to them. Say to them that Allah is near you. I respond to their prayer, to one's salah, to one's dua when they call upon me. So let them respond with obedience to me and believe in me. Perhaps they will be guided to the right way. All the perhaps in the Quran, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is mentioning himself, la'ala is at the level of yaqeen. Definitely it will happen. It's not an expression of uncertainty because there is no uncertainty with respect to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. See this beautiful ayat. First and foremost Allah is saying, When my slave asks about me, I am near. The slave is only asking a question. But Allah says, When he asks me, I am near. So this is the first thing to understand and try to wrap our minds around is to say, When the slave asks, Allah says, I am near. So be very, very conscious of this and let us thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for this. Let us treat this with great respect and honor. That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is blessing us. Allah is saying, I am near. Imagine what is the nearness of Allah? What does it mean? The ma'iyat of Allah, that Allah is with me, Allah is near me. What does it mean? What should it mean? Think about this. How beautiful, how wonderful. Allah says, I am near you just because you are asking. And then Allah says, Let him ask me, I will give him. Let him ask me, wujibu da'wat ad-dai izad-dahan. Let him ask me, I will give him. Allah did not put any conditions or any limitations on what you can ask. Ask whatever you want. As long as you are not asking for something haram, ask whatever you want. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, I will give you. InshaAllah. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give us what we ask with khair and baraka, with afiyah inshaAllah. And then Allah says, Allah puts two conditions. Fal yas tajeebuli, let them obey me. Wal yu'minu bi, and let them have faith and iman in me. Laa allahum yasudun, then they will be rightly guided. Notice here that obedience comes before yakeen. Because yakeen is the result of obedience. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Do something when you do it and you see the results of it, your faith increases. Allah says, Have tawakkul, have trust in me. Do not indulge in haram. I will provide you from haraal sources. So when the person is having this trust, he is having trust unseen. This is the whole point of Islam. Iman bil ghayb. But when he has this trust unseen, then he sees doors opening for him where he did not expect to see a door, his faith increases. So first obedience and then iman. That does not mean you have iman later deliberately. It means that after obedience, iman will increase. And these are the two conditions. Obedience to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and iman in him for the acceptance of dua. And may Allah bless the Prophet and his family and companions with your mercy.…

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Purpose of Fasting

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Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Universe. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and upon his family and companions. And peace and blessings be upon him. Next, Allah SWT told us why he sent Ramadan. Allah SWT said, Ya ayyuhalladheena amanu kutibra alaykumu sriyamu kama kutibra ala alladheena min qablikum la'allakum tattaqoon Allah said which means, O you who believe, fasting has been prescribed upon you as it was prescribed for those before you so that you may become muttaqoon. la'allakum tattaqoon So that you may become muttaqoon. What is taqwa? Taqwa is that state of mind and heart where a person is concerned about Allah SWT's pleasure in everything that they say or they do. No matter how small, no matter how big, the person's question, there's a tape running in the back of the mind, the platform on which the whole person's software decision making and communication software runs is taqwa, which is, is Allah going to be pleased with what I'm going to say or not? So say if I'm going to, for example, if I'm going to say something to Nimab, before I say it, ask myself, what I'm planning to say to her, is this likely to please Allah or not? So if, for example, if I'm thinking of saying something critical about something, somebody to her, that person is not here, which is called backbiting. So if I'm planning to do that, which is also called most of our social life, so if I'm planning to do that, then I ask myself, is Allah going to be pleased with this? Answer is no, so I don't do it. Now the beauty of that is that when a person makes an intention to do something evil and changes that intention because of the fear of Allah's subhanahu wa ta'ala's displeasure, Allah's subhanahu wa ta'ala has, causes a good deed, hasana, to be written in their account. See the mercy of Allah, Jalla Jallalu, you haven't done anything, just change your mind. I had a thought in my mind, I think I'm going to do that, then I said, no, no, no, I can't do that because Allah will not be pleased. That's it. It takes like one second, it has, there's no effort, energy involved, nothing involved, but we get what hasana. What is the value of hasana? What is the value of one good deed? The value of one good deed on the day of judgment can be the difference between Jannah and Jahannam. One single good deed, right? If a person has one extra one, then the scale of good deeds is heavier, so they go to Jannah. If he does not have that one, then he has, he has, he has a problem. And how did I get this good deed? By being conscious of Allah's subhanahu wa ta'ala's pleasure. Will Allah be pleased or not? Right? So taqwa is to have this condition of heart and mind where everything we do, whether in public, whether in private, whether in secret, whether in a place where we think nobody is watching us because Allah is always watching us. We are concerned only about the pleasure of Allah. To bring about this situation and to bring about this condition Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent this month of Ramadan. Now how does Ramadan achieve that? It achieves it by a very simple and beautiful principle. And that principle is that from just before dawn to sunset, we are not allowed to do what is normally halal. Right? Eating, drinking, intimacy with your spouses is normally halal. But we are not allowed to do that during this period. Now if somebody says, why not? What's the answer? Why not? Why not? I'm saying, for example, this is a common question. A person who is not a Muslim, who is probably interested in Islam, so they tell you, okay, you guys are not doing this from this time to this time. Why? Fasting, why? Yes? To cleanse your soul. Yeah? To demonstrate faith to Allah. Demonstrate faith to Allah? Kind of yes, but what is the real answer? Discipline. Because Allah said so. That's it.…

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Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #09

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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. Peace and blessings be upon the honorable 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, all praise is due to Allah. The month is passing and the month is passing fast. Today is the fifth day of Ramadan Al-Kareem. I ask Allah SWT to make the fasting easy for us, to help us to fast in a way which accomplishes the purpose of the fasting which is to make us Muttaqun. I remind myself and you that during this period of the fast, we stop ourselves from doing that which is Halal. Only because Allah SWT commanded that. What then of what Allah commanded and told us is Haram. What then of those things which Allah SWT prohibited us from doing, not just within the period of fasting, but throughout our lives. What of gambling? What of dealing in interest? What of bad mouthing people? Rebirth? Backbiting and slandering? What of telling lies? What of withholding our evidence and witness? What of foul mouthed speech? What of bearing grudges and enmity? What of hatred? What of greed and envy and jealousy? May Allah have mercy on us. The list is endless. Allah SWT commanded us not to intake even that which is Halal and Alhamdulillah in Ramadan we follow that. What about all of these things which Allah commanded and said it is Haram? I mentioned interest. With respect to interest, Allah not only made it Haram, Allah declared war on the one who deals in interest despite knowing that it is Haram. Yet we deal in interest. Yet we find excuses. What would you say to somebody who is fasting, who claims to be fasting and then you find him eating something and he says, no, no, no, you know, these are just these cheetos which came or something which are so tasty I just tried a little bit. Say, but brother, you are fasting. You are not supposed to try a little bit or more or less. So when doing that is not permissible, how can we be permissible to disobey Allah SWT? Brothers and sisters, please understand, I remind myself and you, we came here Allah sent us only to obey. Allah did not send us for any other reason. Allah said, you have not created the human beings and the jinn for any purpose. You have not created the human beings and the jinn for any purpose. You have not created the human beings and the jinn for any purpose other than to obey, other than to worship. That's the only purpose. We were sent to worship Allah. How then do we not do that? How then do we disobey Allah? Disobey Allah, knowingly. Please understand this. We don't want to stand on the day of judgment before Allah SWT and say, Allah, you know, I made a mistake. And we are told, no, it's not a mistake. You deliberately did this thing. It's a crime. You knew interest was haram, but you ate interest. You knew gambling was haram, but you went and gambled. You knew using of tobacco and tobacco products and cigarettes and argila and this and that. All this was haram, but you deliberately did this. You knew backbiting and cheating was haram, but you did it. You knew slandering was haram, but you did it. How are we going to, you know, justify this? Tell me. My brothers and sisters, please. The purpose of fasting is not just hunger. That is why Aswina Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, stay away from all these things. Stay away from bad mouthing. Stay away from foul language. Stay away from yelling and screaming, from raving and ranting. Stay away from telling lies and all these things. Otherwise, he said, there would be people for whom their fasting is only hunger and thirst. They will get no reward for the fasting because their fasting is going in all of these things which Allah SWT has prohibited. Let us not be among those people. Let us protect our fast and let us make sure that we fast from everything which is har...…

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Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #08

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Auto-generated transcript:As-salātu wa s-salām ʿalā ʿashrafī l-anbiyā'ī wa l-mursalīn Muhammadun Rasūlu Llāh ﷺ tasleeman kathīran kathīra Hammadu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu ʿAbdu alun maghummin wa ghair apar-arab suggestions Allah SWT said Allah's blessing has been and was and is on the Prophets, the martyrs, and the people who are good in the sight of Allah SWT. Among the Prophets, Allah SWT said Ya Seen wal Quran Al Hakim, Inna Kala Meenal Mursaleena Ala Siratil Mustaqeer. Allah SWT, the second Prophet, Ya Seen is one of the names of Rasulullah SAW, he said and Allah took an oath by the Quran, Wal Quran Al Hakim, Inna Kala Meenal Mursaleena, truly you are among the Rasul, among the messengers of Allah, Ala Siratil Mustaqeer, and you are on the Siratil Mustaqeer. Which Siratil Mustaqeer? The one we ask Allah for in every Rakat of every Salah, in Suratul Fatiha, without which the Salah is not complete because Suratul Fatiha is a Rukun of Salah and the one who has not recited Suratul Fatiha, his Salah is invalid. So every Salah, Fargh, or Sunnah, or Nafil, or whatever, we ask Allah for Hidayah. Ramadan came to give us this Hidayah. It came to open the doors. So when we stop ourselves from what Allah has prohibited, we are doing this as a way to turn towards Allah SWT. So let us use this month to make sincere repentance, sincere Tawwah to Allah SWT and wash our hands and clean our lives from every single thing, small or large. That is disobedience of Allah. Let us focus on our Salah. That is the first thing that we need to correct. Make sure that we pray, that we pray correctly, and we pray on time without delay. We ask Allah SWT to accept our fasting and to accept whatever we do for His sake and to correct our intention, to purify our actions and to accept us in His path and to give us Khatima Bil Khair. And may Allah bless us all.…

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Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #07

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Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahir Raheem. Wasalaatu wasalaamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasoolulahi sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam tasleeman katheera katheera. From abadhu, alhamdulillah, we are in the month of Ramadan. Fasting has started. Taste the sweetness of this. What are we doing in fasting? Let me remind myself and you. What are we doing in fasting? What are we doing in this fasting? What we are doing in this fasting is that things which were and are and continue to be halal, things which were permissible, things if we did them for the sake of Allah SWT, we would be rewarded for them. Those things during a specific period of time in the day, we make them haram on ourselves. Eating of halal food is halal except in the period of the fast. From the time of the beginning of the fast to the end, it is haram to eat. Drinking is normally halal. In the period of the fast, it is haram. Sohba with our spouses being with our spouses halal during the period of fast, haram. Now why? Why is something which is normally permissible being made impermissible during a specific period of time? Very simple answer. Because Allah said so. There is no other answer. We are not doing this to reduce our glycemic index or to have some positive effect on blood sugar or to lose weight or nothing. We are doing it because Allah said so. Now this is the fundamental principle of Islam. A Muslim is the one who submits to Allah SWT. Why does he submit? Because Allah is Allah. Because he recognizes his relationship with Allah. I am the creature of Allah. I am the slave of Allah. I exist because Allah created me. I exist for the purpose of glorifying and praising and worshipping Allah SWT. Allah SWT said, We have not created the human being and the jinn for anything other than worship. And what is worship? Worship is the actions of worship of which Ramadan, the fasting and Ramadan is one. But worship is to obey. And then the month of Ramadan is supposed to reinforce this. Obedience. Why are you not eating? Because Allah said so. Why are you not drinking? Because Allah said so. Why are you not doing things which were normally halal? Because Allah said so. And the same things which we have not been doing and which we did not do all day today until the time of iftar become halal, once iftar is over. Once the time of iftar comes, they become halal. Obedience. Islam means obedience. Islam means submission. وَيِذْكَعْلَ لَهُ رَبُّهُ أَسْلِمْ قَالَ أَسْلَمْتُ لِلَبِّ الْعَانَمِينَ Allah SWT said about Ibrahim Ali, Allah SWT said to him, Submit. He said, I have submitted. It is to inculcate this spirit of submission, the spirit of total and complete obedience, not blind obedience. It is obedience because our eyes are wide open, our hearts are wide open and we recognize Allah SWT. We are not obeying blindly. We are not obeying without understanding anything. We are obeying because we understand. The one who is not obeying is blind. The one who is not, a Muslim who is not fasting is blind. A Muslim who is not fasting in the month of Ramadan has not understood anything. He doesn't know who he is. He does not know who Allah is. He does not know that he will die one day. He does not know that he will be resurrected, that he will stand before Allah SWT. He will be questioned and he will have no answer. The one who is fasting is the one who understands all of this. And therefore he said, لَبَّيْكَ اللَّهُمَّ لَبَّيْكَ Oh Allah, I am here. I am here to obey you and I am obeying you. I ask Allah SWT to make us among those who respond to the call of obedience, to the hukum and the order and the command of obedience of Allah SWT, which must be done in the way, the sunnah of Muhammad SAW. And may Allah's peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, his family and the water of the sea be upon him. With your mercy, O merciful and merciful. And praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.…

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Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #06

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Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Universe. Peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and upon his family and companions. He has been very, very peaceful. From now on, my brothers and sisters, Allah SWT said about this month of Ramadan, O you who believe, fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may become righteous, so that you may become people of Taqwa. I remind myself and you that all Ibadat, all acts of worship are not for themselves. They are tools, they are ways for the purpose, the sole purpose of attaining and earning the Rida of Allah, the acceptance of Allah, the pleasure of Allah SWT. Every Ibadah leads to that. Same result and same goal for every action of worship. Every action of worship is for that purpose, it is not for itself. For example, about the Salah, Allah SWT said, Inna Salata Tanha Anil Fahshai War Munkar. Allah said, Verily the Salah separates you from Fahushait and Munkarat, from all forms of shamelessness, all forms of disobedience and all forms of rebelliousness and disobedience. The purpose of Salah is not Salah itself. We don't pray for the sake of prayer. We pray so that Allah SWT purifies us, separates us from all kinds of shameless deeds and Munkarat, all forms of disobedience of Allah SWT and rebelliousness. Similarly, about fasting, as I mentioned to you the Ayat of Surah Al-Bukhara, So that you become people of Taqwa, people who are concerned about earning the pleasure of Allah SWT. The purpose of fasting is there. The reason I am saying this is because when you are doing something for a purpose, you must look at whether this purpose is being achieved or not. You go to the gym to develop your body, to develop your strength, to change the shape of your body from being spherical to being, you know, looking like a healthy human being. You measure that. You measure your muscle, the ability to lift weights. You measure your muscle strength. You measure your muscle mass and so on and so forth. Similarly for other things. If you are going towards some destination, when you are traveling, you say, well, how many miles more to go? Means there is a destination, that destination, there is a distance, I have traveled some distance, I have some more to go. The same thing we must apply with regard to our Taqwa. How many miles to go? So what is my level of Taqwa? What was it last year? What was it last month? What is it now? Measure it. And the measurement is very simple. How obedient am I to Allah SWT? How obedient am I to Allah? How obedient am I to Rasulullah SAW? Obedience to Allah SWT orders His Ahkam in the way of Muhammad SAW. We do it the way he did it. This is the meaning of obedience. This is the meaning of being on the path leading to the mercy of Allah SWT. That is why Ramadan comes, to focus on that. And Allah SWT is saying the purpose of Ramadan is to focus on pleasing Allah SWT. I ask Allah SWT to give us good health, to give us time, and above all to give us this intense awareness, this intense awareness that the most important thing for me to do in this month of Ramadan is to maximize the benefit by doing my best to please Allah SWT. And never, never, never do anything which amounts to the disobedience of Allah and the disobedience of His Nabi SAW. Live our lives according to the orders of Allah on the Sunnah of Muhammad and Rasulullah SAW. May Allah bless us all with His mercy.…

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Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #05

約 6 日前

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Auto-generated transcript:In Hadiths by Musnad Ibn Muhammad, in Al-Hakimah and in Al-Baihaqi, the Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said, They will make Shafa' on behalf of the slave. Allah SWT will permit fasting and the Quran to become our Shafi' to make Shafa' intercede for us. As-Siyyam fasting says, O our O Rabb, I prevented him from food and obeying his desires during the day, therefore accept my Shafa' on his behalf. And the Quran will say, I prevented him from sleeping at night, therefore accept my Shafa' on his behalf. And they and their Shafa' will be accepted and they will be accepted as intercessors. Now please understand this. The thing here is that this fasting is becoming our an intercessor on our behalf because we are practicing the fasting correctly. As Rasulullah SAW said, some people for them the fasting is only hunger and thirst and loss of sleep. We do not want to be among them. So therefore the fact fasting prohibits us from all forms of bad behavior. Fasting is something which is a person who wishes to in one opinion, there is an opinion which says that engaging in bad conduct, engaging in actions which are, again there is a Hadith, Abu Hurairah narrated that Rasulullah SAW said in this Hadith in Bukhari and Abu Dawud, whoever doesn't give up false speech, which is all from the, apart from lying and so on, it's also backbiting, it's also slandering, it's also all kinds of stuff like this, whoever does not give up false speech and evil actions and does not abandon foolishness, Allah is not in need of His living food and drink. And this Hadith is in Bukhari and Abu Dawud. According to the majority of scholars, to do so, that is to indulge in these evil actions of lying and cheating and whatnot, lessens the reward of the fast. It makes it less valuable but does not break it. But some of the scholars of the Zahiri mazhab like Ibrahim, Al-Nakhai, Al-Awzai and Ibn Hazm, they said that it breaks the fast. So, irrespective of that, we want to make sure that the fasting is something which becomes beneficial for us and let us not, again, the idea is not to fall into any form of argument about all this. Now, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam mentioned three kinds of people who defeat the purpose of fasting. He said Qawla zuur, that is falsehood, for example lying, ghaiba, namimah, false testimony, swearing, slander, all forms of haram statements. And then Amal Az-Zur, which is haram actions. So Qawla zuur, haram speech, haram actions. Amal Az-Zur, which is oppression, fighting, stealing, listening to music, looking at haram, all the bad stuff. And then Jahil, this is not the antinom of knowledge, but rather it's the opposite of Hilb, meaning controlling oneself, holding oneself back and being patient. For example, one who does not have control on himself and is quick to fight and argue and get angry is a Jahil. We know that these actions are haram and all the more they become even more haram than haram in the month of Ramadan because where the goodness is multiplied, the evil also becomes even more reprehensible. So let us make sure that we don't waste our fasting and that we practice it correctly.…

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Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #04

約 7 日前

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Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalaatu wasalaamu ala ishrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammad rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam tasleeman kaseeran kaseeraan. From Abadu, my brothers and sisters, we talked about goal setting. I want to remind myself anew the importance of prioritization. The three things that we need to do. Set goals, prioritize and based on the priorities set our time. So, manage our time. Throughout life we are talking about Ramadan and let Ramadan become a training ground for us to bring about change in our lives going forward. As one of my one of my Shriyavahus to say, did you enter Ramadan or did Ramadan enter you? Because if you entered Ramadan then on the first of Shawwal you would have exited Ramadan. But if Ramadan enters you then it will transform your life and that is the key thing to remember and the key thing for us to think about and the key thing for us to focus on and say am I entering Ramadan or is Ramadan entering me? And we want to make sure that we don't just live by default and that we transform ourselves. The purpose of Ramadan is to transform our lives and to make us better human beings so that we succeed in this world and inshallah we gain the Rida of Allah and Jannah in the Akhira. So, in order to do that the tool is called prioritization. The reason why we need to prioritize is because all resources in this life are limited, Mahdood. No matter who you are, whether you are a king or a pauper, whether you are a man or a woman, whether you are a child or an adult, whether you are wealthy or poor, healthy or sick, whatever the case might be, all resources. Our life is limited, it is finite, our time is finite, everybody has only 24 hours, nobody has one second more than that, our wealth is finite, we only have so much, no matter how much that much is, right? Everything in our life is finite. It is something which is definite, has no, there is no, it's not unlimited. And therefore, the key thing is to use it in a way where we get maximum benefit for it. If I have only a few resources, then I cannot afford to squander them, I can't afford to just throw them around and hope for the best, no. I need to be very clear about where to place them to be able to make the most of them. The principle of leverage is the placement of the fulcrum. If you place the fulcrum in the wrong place, the lever will break. If you place the fulcrum in the right place, then with a small amount of force, a huge load is lifted and this is the load of sins and the small amount of force is the fasting. So let us make sure the fulcrum is in the right place. Now for this to, we must have, we must do two things. One is ask yourself for every action, what is the return of an investment that I am getting? My action is my investment, what is the return I am getting? I am watching one hour of football, one hour of basketball, I am watching two hours of soccer, whatever I am watching on television. For example, I am giving one example, you can extend this to whatever you like. I am watching that what is the return? What did I get out of this? I had fun, I passed time, no you didn't pass time, time would have passed anyway. So think about that. What did I get or what will I get in return for this? Do only that which gives you the maximum return, right? Work on it on the basis of RY. What is the return that I will get from this? Is it a return with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Then do it. If it is not, then please do not waste your time. Prioritize your life, prioritize your goals, prioritize your life especially in Ramadan al-Kareem so that we transform our lives completely when we come out of Ramadan. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.…

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Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #03

約 8 日前

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Auto-generated transcript:Let us remember and think and actualize this feeling of the truth that Allah sent Ramadhan al-Kareem as a blessing for us, as a gift for us. Imagine if somebody gives you an expensive watch or somebody gives you, you know, somebody gives you, you wake up in the morning and you find it the latest S-class Mercedes fully loaded standing in your in your Porsche and there's a key and there's a tag saying this is for my friend so and so and this is from wherever your friend is who's generous enough to do that for you. Imagine how grateful you would be, how wonderful you would be, how you would savor the gift, right? You would look at it again and again, you would sit in it and you would drive this car very carefully. If it says watch, you're going to put it on and you know, imagine all the, just think about this, this extremely valuable gift that you got from somebody and then remind yourself that no matter how valuable that gift was, you are going to leave us behind in this world when you go, right? Whereas Allah subhanahu ta'ala gave us this gift of Ramadhan al-Kareem which is obviously there is no comparison between the gift of, the gift which Allah gives us, the gift with anybody else's gifts, material and spiritual, but Allah subhanahu ta'ala's gift comes with us in the Akhirah. There is a beautiful hadith where there were two Sahaba who came to Islam on the same day, they accepted Islam on the same day and after many years, one of them died as a martyr in one of the Ghazwat and the other one died one year later. And one of the other Sahaba, I don't now recollect the name of the Sahabi, he saw the second one, he saw in a dream, he had a dream in which he saw the second one going into Jannah before the first one. So the first one died as a martyr, as a Shaheed and obviously his Shahadah, inshallah, is true and he will get Jannah. But this person who saw, he saw the second one going into Jannah before the first one. So he came to the Prophet, he asked him, he said, Ya Rasulullah, how is it that I find this person who died as a Shaheed, he is going into Jannah after his friend who died a year later of natural causes and they both accepted Islam on the same day. Rasulullah said, why are you surprised? Did the second one not get one more Ramadan? Did he not get a chance to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala more in the month of Ramadan? Did he not get one more Lailatul Qadar? Did he not get the chance to do good deeds for one more year? Now that does not obviously detract from the position of the Shaheed, but the point I am making is let us be very very conscious of this beautiful gift that Allah has given us. In the hadiths in Bukhari and Muslim, Rasulullah said the fasting person has two happy moments. One when he breaks his fast he is happy and then the second one is when he meets his Rabb Jallalahu, he is happy because of his fasting. In another hadith in Tirmidhi and Mimajah, Rasulullah said, Allah has those whom he frees from Jahannam and this occurs every night in Ramadan. So about it, we have got this beautiful month which Allah has given us and Allah subhanahu ta'ala has blessed us with all of these blessings. So we have the issue of also the Umrah in Rabadhan, may Allah grant us this. Rasulullah said the one who makes Umrah in Rabadhan, the reward of that is equivalent to making Hajj with Rasulullah. So it is such a beautiful month with so much goodness and so much blessing. Let us make sure that we take full advantage of it and we don't lose that wasting time and doing useless things or doing things which Allah has prohibited.…

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Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #02

約 8 日前

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Auto-generated transcript:All forms of worship are tools in order to achieve a goal and that goal is the Rida of Allah SWT. It is the pleasure of Allah SWT. Every Ibadah. For example, Allah SWT said, Allah said, Allah said, verily the Sarah separates you from all faujah and munkarat. Sarah separates you from all shameless and promiscuous and bad deeds and from all munkarat, all forms of disobedience and all forms of rebellion. So when we are praying, we are praying five times a day, then we must ask ourselves, look for the reflection. Is it happening in my life or not? Because this is a tool. Like you go to the gym, you don't go to the gym just to look at the furniture or to meet people there and have fun. You go to the gym with a purpose. You go to the gym to increase your strength, to increase your muscle size, to shape your body and so on. So when you go into the gym and you start exercising and the coach is guiding you, then you have metrics and you say, okay, I'm going to check after one month, what is the result after two months, what is the result and so on. And am I getting the result that I am looking for? Right. And if I'm not getting the result, then I will twist and tweak and say, maybe I need to do more upper body exercises. Maybe I need to do more lower body exercises. Maybe I need to do more aerobic exercises. Maybe I need to lift more weights and so on. Because there is a goal and your goal is to get a particular body shape and so on and so forth. So the same thing applies. Ibadat are tools. Ibadat are the gym. The goal is the Rida of Allah. Is Allah pleased with me? Very simple to understand that Allah will be pleased if I am obeying Allah. Simple as that. So I must look at my life and say, I am praying, but in my life, is there anything? The prayer is supposed to separate me and clean me and clean up my life and clean up my act. And therefore, am I still watching the same stuff? Am I still listening to the same stuff? Am I still going to the same negative places? Am I still engaging in the same negative conversations? Am I lying? Am I cheating? Am I buying and selling haram? Am I eating haram? Or have I gone the other way, which is I have left all of these things. My life is clean. It's free from all forms of corruption. Is that happening or not? The same thing is with fasting. Allah said, Again, the purpose of fasting. Allah said, we have made fasting, or you believe we have made fasting incumbent upon you like it was made incumbent upon those before prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before so that you may become Muttakoon. You may become people who have Taqwa. You fear Allah and you fear His punishment and you have hope in His mercy and you have hope in His forgiveness. This is the position of the Muslim, the Muttakhee, Bain ul-Kaufi wa Ta'wa. So Allah is saying this is the purpose for which fasting has been sent. Fasting has not been sent just to keep us hungry and thirsty throughout the day and at the end of the day, nothing to show for it. No, fasting has been sent to make us better human beings. Transformation, one month transformation, boot camp, which is called Ramadan ul-Karim. So we are in that. So therefore, let us find, let us check and say, is it happening? What are the metrics? What are the metrics to say that I am changing my life? Has my life changed? Have my, has my decision making changed? Or am I doing the same dumb things all over again? So very important. Keep on, keep on checking, keep on making sure that we are doing the right things because in the period of fasting, we are abstaining even from the halad, which is reinforces the importance of staying away from haram all the time. Abu Ura R. Radhi Allah Anhu, the reward for this, Abu Ura R. Radhi Allah Anhu narrated in a hadith in Bukhari and Muslim that Rasulullah Rasulullah said, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, so it's the hadith of Qudsi, all the deeds of the son of Adam are his except for a siam for,…

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Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #01

約 9 日前

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Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, Ramadan Mubarak to you once again. I remind myself and you that it is critical and important to set goals for ourselves for Ramadan. What is the goal that we have set for ourselves for the month? If you haven't set those of you who have set your goals, all power to you, allahlal those who have not, now is the time do it. Make sure that we have goals for Ramadan because without a goal you can go nowhere. Now three very important things when you are looking at setting of goals. One is state what is the goal? State the goal, write these things down. State the goal, what is the goal, which is which means what do you want to achieve? So for example you might say my goal in Ramadan is to complete one complete recitation of the Quran Al-Karim on my own. So I will therefore then say therefore what is likely to help you and what is likely to hinder you. So if I am going to recite the Quran, the full complete Quran one time in the month of Ramadan, this is the minimum that you should do, then it means you are going to recite for yourself, buy yourself one juice, one sipara every day. So what will help you to do that? For example you might say what will help me to do that is to set aside a specific time and say I will recite this one juice and in that time I will shut out all possible disturbances which means I will shut off my phone, I will be somewhere where I am sitting quietly, nobody can disturb me and I will complete one juice of the Quran every day. Now this one juice does not need to be done at a stretch, if you are slow in recitation you might say well I am going to recite one juice is around in the Usmani script, it is about 20 pages. So you say after every salah I will recite 5 pages. So you have got 5 pages in the 4 salah you would have finished 20 pages one juice and you still have one salah left for you to maybe recite another 5 pages for the next day which speeds up your recitation. So what must you do? What is the goal? Second thing is what will help you to achieve the goal and third is what are the possible hindrances which might prevent you from completing that goal. Please understand when you have a goal completed for the day, complete it in the day. Don't let it lapse over into the next day because it will just keep on increasing and then you will end up giving up that goal or you will like for example in this case of one sipara a day, one juice a day, you will end up with falling back by one juice or more and then at the end of the month you would not have completed the recitation of the Quran. Imagine, remember this is what all I am telling you to do is not fard, if you don't recite the Quran in Ramadan you will not go to hell. This is the way in which we show our value and our appreciation for the gift that Allah has given us which is Ramadan al-Karim. Allah has given us a gift which helps us to speed up our hasanat. It skews, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala skewed the field completely in our favour. It's not a level playing field anymore, it's a field which is skewed in our favour. So let's take advantage of that. Let's do the best that we can do in that period so that we can come out of Ramadan as winners, not just as somebody who passed the month being hungry and thirsty. Abdullah there is benefit for that also because the fasting is a pillar of Islam, it's a rokon and to deliberately not fast is haram, to deliberately not fast and to consider it to be unimportant is kufr, so it's a very serious matter. But at the same time having got it and having fasted let us try to maximize that and that is why set goals for yourself for the month of Ramadan and then say what will help, what will not help, do what helps, don't do what does not help. Thank you.…

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Prepare for Ramadan – #2

約 10 日前

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Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Peace and blessings be upon the most honorable prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family. He is the most merciful and merciful. I remind myself and you, my brothers and sisters, this month has come as a month of mercy and a month of guidance. Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawzi and Ibn Jawzi, they said that anytime you feel lazy in Ramadan to worship Allah, remind yourself that it is a numbered period, number of days. Allah the Almighty said, Ayyama ma'du daat, the days are numbered. So if I am lazy, the time doesn't stop. And once the time has gone, the leverage with that time also goes. Now the best way of ensuring that we get the maximum benefit from Ramadan is to make goals for Ramadan. So make goals for yourself and say what is my goal for reading Quran? How much additional Quran will I read? We are supposed to read Quran every single day of our lives. But in Ramadan, make a goal to say how much more will I read? In charity, how much more will I give? For example, if you make a goal and then make a timetable for that and break it down into sub-goals. For example, if you say, and you should say, try to do that, that in Ramadan I will do one complete Khatmah of the Quran. I will read the entire Quran from the first page to the last page and complete it in the month of Ramadan. So that is thirty Juz. Now if you are going to do that, then one way of doing it is to make a goal to say, after every first Salah, I will read five pages. In the Usmani Musaf, one Juz is twenty pages. So after every Salah, if you read five pages, you would have read twenty-five pages for the day, which means that you will be a little bit ahead, which is a good thing, because if the month comes with only twenty-nine days instead of thirty, you still would have completed the four An. Otherwise you get stuck with one Juz and last minute you have to read. So five pages a day after every first Salah. It's very easy. It's not difficult at all. Try it, InshaAllah, and Allah makes it easy. Even if you have hesitation in reading and you have some difficulty with reading, this is the time to change all that. So in thirty days you try it, InshaAllah Allah gives you fluency. Make dua to Allah swt, Allah will give you fluency, InshaAllah. Charity, make it a habit to give something every day. Every day in Ramadan. No matter what it is, five cents, something every day. Make it into a habit, inculcate that in your children and so on and say, some charity I will give every single day and the purpose of all of these is to carry this forward throughout our lives. So every day in your life give some charity. If you can't find somebody keep a walk, keep a walk, keep a bowl or something, put the money in that. So that's gone for the day. When you find someone you can give it. The whole point is to create goals to change our life going forward after Ramadan. The idea is not to change our life in Ramadan and go back to the old way. Change the goals going forward. Allah swt as I mentioned gives this month for us to leverage change, to make it easy to change and to give us additional rewards for changing. And therefore let us make the maximum of that and not waste any time at all. I remind myself anew that the most fundamental belief in Islam is the belief in resurrection after death on the day of judgment and the belief in meeting Allah swt. Take any of the other parts of our creed, including tawhid, risala, the creed of the oneness of the worship of Allah swt, the creed of Rasulullah swt, the prophet Muhammad swt being the last and final prophet or anything and ask so what? Why should I believe that? Because I will meet Allah. Why should I believe in Allah? Because I will meet Allah. Why should I believe in the prophet Muhammad and follow him? Because I will meet Allah.…

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Prepare for Ramadan – #1

約 10 日前

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Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters and elders, all praise and thanks be to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that insha'Allah He will grant us another Ramadan. This is a gift, the value of which depends on what we choose to do with it. It is up to us to make it as valuable as we wish. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chose to bless us by granting the month of Ramadan in which He does not only level the playing field but skews the playing field of life in our favour. It is for us to take advantage of this wonderful blessing and opportunity and remember that this may be our last Ramadan because one Ramadan will be our last. And the key therefore is to make every Ramadan the best yet so that if it is the last then we have no regrets. Anabih Huraira r.a. said about the Prophet, peace be upon him, He said, Whoever does the night of Qadr with faith and reckoning, forgive him what he has done for his sins. Whoever does the night of Ramadan with faith and reckoning, forgive him what he has done for his sins. Narrated Abu Huraira r.a. that Rasulullah said, Whoever establishes prayers, the salah on the night of Qadr with sincere faith and hoping for a reward from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, imanan wa hittisaban, then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will forgive all his or her previous sins. And whoever fasts in the month of Ramadan out of sincere faith and hoping for reward from Allah, then all his previous sins will be forgiven. And in another hadith, the Prophet said the same thing with regard to qiyam. Man qaama Ramadan imanan wa hittisaban ghufir Allah hu dhamma. That the one who stands in salah, and this is not only a Lailatul Qadr but throughout the month, in the night, Salatul Qa'rawi or Qiyamul Layl, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will forgive all his sins. In another hadith in Bukhari and Muslim, Abu Huraira r.a. narrated that Rasulullah said, all the deeds of the son of Adam are for him except a siam. The siam is for me and I will reward it. A siam uli wa ana azzi bih. Rasulullah s.a.w. said in another hadith in Bukhari and Muslim, the fasting person, the sa'im, has two happy moments. One, when he breaks his fast, he is happy and the second, when he meets his Rabb, when we go before Allah, he will be happy because he fasted. Rasulullah s.a.w. also said, again in Thirmidhi and Imne Maja, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has those whom he frees from jahannam and this occurs every night in Ramadan. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to include us among those who he will free from jahannam every night in Ramadan. In another hadith in Musnad ibn Ahmad, in Bayhaqi and in Al-Hakim, Rasulullah s.a.w. said, a siam, fasting and the Quran will intercede on behalf of the person. Fasting will say, I kept this person away from food and drink and from his shahwad, from his desires during the day, so, O my Rabb, allow me to make shafa'a, to be an intercessor for this person's forgiveness. The Quran will say, I kept this person awake in the night because he was listening to the Quran, he was reading the Quran and therefore make me an intercessor for this person and the intercession of both will be accepted. In another hadith in Bukhari and Nabi Dawud, Abu Hurairah narrated that Rasulullah s.a.w. said, whoever doesn't give up false speech, now false speech refers to all forms of stuff, whether it's profanity, lying, cheating, backbiting, whatever you want, anything which is not good, whoever doesn't give up false speech and evil actions and doesn't abandon foolishness, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not in need of His leaving food and drink. I remind myself and you, it's about fasting, not about starving. Ramadan is the month of fasting, it's not the month of starvation. Even Omar radiyallahu anhu ma said that a man asked Rasulullah s.a.w. about the salah in the night, and Rasulullah s.a.w. said, prayers, salah in the night are to be prayed two by two, that is two rakat at a time, not three or four. If any of you fears the time of dawn is approaching,…

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Blessings that don’t decline

約 11 日前

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Auto-generated transcript:We had another beautiful dua. There is a wealth of duas in the Seerah. If we are lucky, we will be able to remember them and make this dua inshaAllah. Abdullah bin Umar says that the Prophet used to make this dua. Allahumma inni a'udh bika min zawali ni'matik wa tahawwuli aafiatik wa fujatik ni'matik wa jami'i saqatik. The passing of safety. The suddenness of your punishment and all that which displeases you. See this is very beautiful. O Allah, I seek refuge in you against the declining of your favours. The passing of safety. The suddenness of your punishment and all that which displeases you. And this is in Sahih Muslim. In the commentary it says that it's a very comprehensive prayer. Allah has blessed humankind man with innumerable gifts. One becomes conscious of them when one is deprived of any of them. Hence it is said that the value of a blessing is realized at its loss. It's so true. How many of us for example, thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the ni'ma, for the blessing when we still have it. There's a beautiful incident happened in my life where one of my good friends, that time he was a little boy and now he is of course an adult and a family man and you know, masha'Allah, person of consequence. I was giving a speech and I was talking about the importance of shukr. And he said to me, I am thankful for my knuckles. I'm thankful for my knuckles. Now, my instant sort of feeling, I never said anything, but my feeling was that this kid is trying to be funny. And then I realized what he was saying because I recalled that one day, sometime before that, I was in the post office and I saw an old woman who came there. It was Christmas time so she had these packets which were not very well wrapped. And she was using a walker. She had these packets in a plastic bag and her hands were completely, the knuckles were frozen and her hands were open and extended. She literally could not hold. It's a very difficult, great difficulty. She was able to hold the walker and I helped her to repack and I helped her to post those packages, which were gifts for her children and she was living in an old people's home. May Allah have mercy on people. Anyway, so I was thinking to myself that these knuckles, how many times we hold things, we pick up things, we leave things and so on, how many times do we thank Allah for the fact that we don't have arthritis, it's not in the knuckles even if you have it, and it doesn't interfere with picking up things, with eating, with drinking. Just imagine the amount of pain and suffering that people have of arthritis and knuckles that they feel with simple, normal, everyday uses, like eating and drinking, using utensils, using cutlery, cooking, you name it. But you don't realize that while it is there. You think of it only when it's gone. Same thing with knees. Knees that don't pain. Same thing with back, same thing with overall health, eyes, ears. How many people thank Allah for being able to see long and short distance without glasses? And then how many of us thank Allah for glasses? Alhamdulillah, there are glasses. What if there were no glasses? Then you would go through life looking at everything like a blur, or maybe not seeing it at all. So I want to thank Allah while we still have that. So He's saying Allahumma, Inni awdhwika min zawalin nyamatiq. Allah, we thank you. Allah, we thank you for, not thank you, I seek refuge. Inni awdhwika, I seek your protection from the declining of your favours. And then, wadahawli afiyatik, from the passing of safety. Imagine we live in, alhamdulillah, here and in other places where we are living in safety. We're living in places where we are safe, where we don't have to worry about our life. You don't have to worry about our health and you've got good public services. And you go home, people are not worrying, will this person come home tonight or not? My husband has gone, my father has gone, my child has gone to school or to work or somet...…

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