Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Achieving Balance in a Greedy World
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My dear respected brothers and sisters. Nice to be in your midst
today. One of the first Masjid centers I've come to in a long
time, which actually has a very nice smell. Mashallah.
Actually, I was in last week, and they've got a wonderful Masjid.
They've built a beautiful Masjid purpose built and everything. And
they said mashallah, you've paid attention to everything.
But the one thing we still need to pay attention, it wasn't smelling
bad. But it wasn't smelling bad. Don't get me wrong. But there is
car manufacturers.
Not only do they focus on the design and the performance, they
actually also focus on the sound the car makes. So the Jaguar needs
to have a wild British aggressive sound. In the roar of its ending,
there's a whole there's a whole
science that goes behind this, and you've got the American Mustang
and that kind of raus you know, there's a specific sound, I mean,
how engines they tune them to make certain sounds because that is
also part of the experience. And not only the sound, but then they
also have the smell of leather. When it's processed and tanned it
pretty much loses any smell of leather doesn't end up smelling
like leather anymore with all the chemicals they use. They but when
you get into a car, a brand new car has got leathers in there. You
do get that smell of leather. They actually that's again, specially
manufactured smell fragrance that's put in there. The other
some some months ago, I have a relative up in the north in
Yorkshire who has a bed factory. So I went into his showroom and
there was a really nice smelling smell like textile, or cloth or,
you know, mattresses actually had a very nice fragrance is what is
this? So apparently had a dispenser.
And these are professional, not the glade ones that you use. These
are professional dispenses for places like this. And that's what
they use in hotels. That's why when you walk into a hotel, it
smells nice, even though if they didn't have those disciplines, it
smelled very bad. It was so close to throw back in some of those
passages. So mustards definitely we need that additional because
look at the end of the day there.
This is not somebody might say, Well, that's all artificial. It's
about the spirit of it. Yes, it is about the spirit, but there are we
as human beings that we are impressed, influenced by many of
the things around us. And if I was to give you one example from
history, we had a very great scholar in Baghdad around the
seventh eighth century, was named was able forge Abner Josie, great
humbly scholar, a prolific writer, he wrote so much in his life that
in those days, they used to use the pens made of cane, you know,
handmade pens. So he had actually saved the shavings of his pen
manufacturer process. And he had written so much in his life, that
the shavings from his pen throughout his life was sufficient
to boil the water for his funeral bath.
Right, so you're talking about a really great scholar, and he was
so focused, so in his gatherings in his speeches, 100,000 People
used to attend.
We're talking about Baghdad of the time, that's the Dowdell Khilafah
that's like, you know, the center of the Muslim world throughout and
you had 100,000 people attend, and that's who he would speak to. And
he used to use a lot of poetry.
To create more impact. Poetry in any language is considered to be
the highest form of articulation in that language. And to write
poetry to compose poetry, you need to have to have a great mastery of
the language because you need to in
employ the right terms appropriate to give the right impact and
effect. So you have to really try hard to make sure it's very
succinct, very comprehensive, very impactful. And that's why a person
could sometimes speak for two hours. But one poem placed in the
right place will be remembered more by the listeners than the
whole speech put together. That's how impactful poetry is. So he,
his, he used to have a lot of, he used to have people crying in his
gatherings, he used to have people, you know, he could really
influence the people a lot. But then he, at one time, he felt that
this was all artificial. So he has this great book, which he calls
seydel, hotter. For those who understand Arabic, Satan, hotter
means
capturing your thoughts, hunting down your thoughts, side means
hunted animal, something that you you capture. And basically,
that's, you can say, the precursor to Twitter. So he was literally
tweeting, in a sense, but not to the whole world yet, you have to
wait until it was all put together. Right? Today, you got
people who have 70 followers, but they got 20,000 tweets.
You've got people who've got 300 followers, and they've got 60,000
tweets, and I'm like, How do you say so much? How do you talk so
much?
Oh, I just saw these shoes. And then you got a picture of a shoe.
They were walking down to town. And they saw somebody, I saw the
shoes? Oh, that's so cute. You know? Subhanallah it's like, how
do you say so much? I have Twitter. And I'm like, at a loss
of what to say because I want to make sure I'm not wasting people's
time. I want to make sure what I say is right, and I'm not going to
be accountable for it. Because it's getting around the world. And
the Prophet said Allah Islam has said and all of these things have
been premeditated, you know, the bozos and said that sometimes
somebody may say something without much regard.
It goes around the world, and it takes this person * into
hellfire, deep down into hellfire
have to be very careful, because we will be questioned for
everything we say. So anyway, going back to our fellowship, no,
Josie, he,
he had all of these thoughts. So he would observe things and put
down his reflection. So one of his reflections was that one time I
came, I began to think that my lectures were artificial. I should
keep to Quran and Sunnah. No poetry, none of that, you know,
strategies to get people to wake up and listen, then I found that
it wasn't having the same effect. They seem dry now. Then I realized
that if the objective is correct, which is that if the objective is
to get people to be close to Allah subhanaw taala. And you do that by
using poetry, or by using anything halal, then Subhanallah then
that's completely fine. Because the the objective is to get to
Allah. And human beings were very interactive. We were social
creatures, human beings are social creatures. That's why according to
Imam Abu Hanifa, at least, it's not considered to be encouraged to
go and become a hermit. In Islam. There's no hermit shoot anyway.
There's no celibacy. Right.
But in general, he considers it to be superior to live among people
and still be able to be steadfast. That's the challenge if you're
alone in your house, and yes, in times of great fitna, we do have
where at the end of times there are other Hadith about that not
withstanding those in general times, so it's not artificial to
have a nice smell when you go into a masjid you'll actually feel
better in your salats
is no doubt about you know, it shouldn't be too much he you know,
the embellishment shouldn't be too much that you get a bit confused
as to what's going on here. Right where do I focus my eyes? I'm not
sure your copied is quite rich in terms of its design.
But what I'm saying is these things are not artificial you
know, they're not always obvious we've been told not to embellish
the mustard too much that stuff all over the place. I mean, one of
the messages I prayed he's got eight colors in there.
The ceilings got about three colors the carpets totally
different the walls have another two three colors. And according to
any design, the maximum uses three colors. Generally two colors and
one just for the embellishment, you know, just for kind of like
finishes.
So
anyway, I hope that's not been useless.
hamdulillah it's good. It's good. I'm just trying to say that indeed
they need this there is an concept of richness. We are influenced
from everyone and we can't help that. So then the masjid
needs to be the best place of their influence. And subhanAllah I
when I was in America, I was in Houston once. And downtown Houston
there was the, what used to be the Houston the National Bank of
Houston, or the Central Bank of Houston or something like that.
They sold that property and there was this Nigerian basketball
player, very famous guy called Hakeem Olajuwon. Right? And if
suddenly you remember him, mashallah, he'd done some great
work, he purchased that building and made it into a masjid. So
downstairs, you had the big vault with that big round
door, which they'd maintained but they'd made that a library. You
know, that was the one Masjid that they offered you mouthwash
in the workplace right. Now, I don't know if that's going a bit
over the top. But it was just this idea of being pure and clean.
Right? And there was a nice smell in that place as well Mashallah.
We keep our home smelling nice. So why not the masjid Hamdulillah.
Now, the point is, everything I'm saying right now is basically on
our topic. It's all to do with our topic. It's about living Islam in
this modern world, and trying to achieve a balance steadfastness.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Call men to Billahi
Thumma stalk him, say I believe in Allah declare your faith, I
believe in Allah and then stay steadfast. Staying steadfast is
the difficulty. Because staying steadfast means the example of
steadfastness in this world is going to be reflected in the
hereafter on that bridge that causeway over Jahannam, which
everybody will have to pass, as straight fast as steadfast a
person has been in this world, that is how they will cross that
bridge in the hereafter. If they've not had any deviances of
left and right extremism or short shortcoming. There's always two
aspects of extremism and shortcoming. Then they will be on
that bridge, they will get over it, and they'll go into Jannah.
But if I was to bring you the expressions, the definitions of
the scholars of the past of how they've defined is the karma.
It's very complex. It's very complex. But there is a great
reward promise for those who try to stay steadfast. That's why
Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, in the Lavina, Kalu, Rob
Boone, Allah
Verily, those, indeed those who say that our Lord is Allah, so you
have to be proud of your faith.
To be a good believer, you can't be hiding your faith.
That's the challenge.
A lot of people in this day and age in this current climate of
aggression against the Muslims, the spread of
animosity towards Islam, there are a lot of people who are Muslims by
birth.
And unfortunately, because they haven't had the opportunity for
whatever reason whether the parents are to be blamed for that,
or themselves or to be blamed for that, they haven't had an
opportunity to really understand Islam, well, they happen to find
themselves in a Muslim household, they haven't really taken on the
faith for themselves, they feel a kind of a connection with it
because of their forefathers, which is a an influential factor
to a certain degree, but they don't know what it means to be a
Muslim. Now, that's confusing enough. But what then happens is
constantly in the media, we are being attacked, left, right and
center about these Muslims here doing this, and a certain group of
Muslims doing this somewhere else, and made it's made to look bad,
it's sensationalized. And it's just made to provoke fear.
instability. So a lot of there's a lot of Muslims out there,
unfortunately, who are on the brink. They don't know where to
go. They feel if this is my faith, which is not it is not their
faith. But that's what they don't have any other source.
One day in Santa Barbara, California, where I was the imam
for eight years.
I'd been there for at least six years. And then I did an
interview, or I did a program and it came in the papers. And this
Muslim family who had been there for many, many years with children
didn't even know Masjid existed.
They only found out when I had an interview in the local newspaper.
So then they come to the masjid and say, you know, we want our
children to learn something. They didn't know the embassy existed.
And it's not like we were hidden. You know, it wasn't a we were
hidden. We were fighting for, to get permits to build a new place
for for so many years. We'd been in the media so many times. You
could just check Islamic Society of Santa Barbara in there, you
know, but
we're so busy in our world sometimes that the religion comes
second, because we're so engrossed in it. And that's why if not, I
thought Allah says, if not, I thought he loved his country. He
says don't be like
For those who understand how to do the corluka bill, right, which
means basically, the ox that drives the mill goes around and
round. If not auto, Allah says, Don't make your life like that,
that your end place is your starting place, you haven't
progressed at all, you've just gone round full circle. And
unfortunately our lives in many cases are like that. What is our
life? How do you define our life today? Subhan Allah for most of
us, isn't it just about
making sure that our clothing, our appliances, our gadgets remain
updated, and we remain up to date.
Because this year, I have to update my phone. Next year, I have
to update my appliance. And the next year, and every year, I have
to update my clothing.
There's a new bag out, I must get it. There's a new, whatever, I
must get it. So we're constantly in pursuit of this because things
become old. So we need to get something new. Nobody worries
about mending anything anymore. It's all about disposal and
getting something new. The amount of wastage recreating this country
is amazing. It's totally SubhanAllah. I don't know if we're
gonna be questioned for it. But it's, we waste a huge amount of
things. We have perfectly fine things but we get more.
And
subhanAllah I just think that this thing about things becoming old
and worn out and something new this is to be a lesson for us.
It's not for indulgence, it's like, if this is happening to
everything around you, then it's going to happen to you as well,
because you are also a product of this world SubhanAllah. And that's
why
these are signs for us. These are signs for us that if this is going
to wither away and become bad one day, it's going to happen to us.
And what is the dua when you lose something?
What's the DUA to read? What's the expression we should say? In early
law, he were in a urology room. And we thought about it's not some
kind of magical formula that we just say, without understanding.
What does it mean? I am for Allah, I belong to Allah, myself, I've
just lost something. I had an accident, somebody died, may Allah
prohibits. But
if that happens, then I think to myself, I belong to Allah as well.
And I'm going to return to him as well. So if this has gone, I'm
gonna go as well. It's just some more time.
So the only way, I've been thinking about this for such a
long time, how do we gain a stick on?
How do we stay steadfast in this world, with everything that's
attracting us, everything that's occupying us, everything that's
keeping us busy, that's the world today. We don't want to be busy.
Nobody wants to go to work. Meaning you'd rather have a good
time at home. But we're constantly occupied.
With everything, I get a call, I get an email from someone that
I've got a particular phone.
Is it a Samsung Note? Right? I've got a Samsung Note. But my
friends, they're gonna make fun of me because I don't have an iPhone,
or he had another Samsung. And he didn't want to buy an iPhone. But
the pressure is making him by one. And he is asking the question,
What should I do? Now I had to give him confidence that what you
have is an ATM of Allah itself. Note three is not a bad phone. I
don't mind one myself. Right. But you know what I mean? It's like,
you don't have to have an iPhone.
You know, and sometimes it's the other way around. So I mean, I
found he's losing it right now. And I mean, there are other
companies and Hamdulillah. But a competition is healthy.
But what I'm trying to say is that there's this pressure. And that's
an example of this individual, everybody has pressure. Everybody
has pressure of some sort of the other to conform to something. Now
if that pressure is to conform to the religion, and the pressure is
from Allah Alhamdulillah we always have two pressures. We're always
in that. We're always in that turbulence. One is, what am I
doing for Allah? And the other is what do I need to do for others?
We're constantly in that dilemma. And that's our life. Are we going
to die like that? Subhan Allah, Allah help us, Allah help us. So
today what I speak about I just thoughts, reflections, ideas to
make us think because
giving solutions you know, this is something people are gonna have to
personalize. I'm gonna have to
doesn't mean people are gonna have to think for themselves. Everybody
has a unique situation.
Everybody here is unique in the way the fitness effects them in
the way that challenges affect them. Everyone is different. Yes,
there are many commonalities, but we're all different. So these are
all thoughts. And I'm not saying I'm perfect in this regard. This
is just purely my reflections of this world that we live in. And Al
Hamdulillah, we are enjoying prosperity.
Everybody is sitting here. How many of you are sitting here with
clothes that you don't really want on? Because it's a handout and
because it's something that you have to it's your older brother or
somebody or you have to buy from a secondhand store? How many of you,
how many of us sitting here are in that state? There may be but you
know, just put your hand up a bit. So you don't have to tell
everybody if you don't want. I'm sure most of us if not all of us
are sitting here with the clothing that they buy their choice
purchased.
By their choice purchased, this is what I want. It's this brand. It's
this style. It's this, this is what I want.
Now, isn't that a nerim of Allah, that we can actually have what we
want.
That's amazing. That's a great bounty of Allah subhanaw taala.
We have to be constantly thankful to Allah subhanho wa Taala the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was once asked about the
challenges to come, which they call fitna fitness a kind of a
confusing word to translate because it depends on the context.
But in this context, it means a challenge, mean something that is
going to attract you away from your deen. That's basically what a
fitna is. All right.
So there's the fitna of Daraa, the fitna of adversity, where you have
little and there are people in the world who are unfortunately going
through that.
May Allah relieve them.
And then that the Prophet Allah son was asked in this hadith in,
in Muslim, then what about after that? He says yes, then it will be
fitna to Sarah, then will come the fitna of prosperity.
Wealth will come from under your feet,
means you will be floating in the stuff.
And today people have disposable income. Whether you really own the
money or not is a different case. But you got credit cards, one
doesn't work, the next one will
then you just say you're bankrupt. You know, it's we've got ability.
We're living in a false economy, though. We're living in a bubble
at every level. It's a bubble.
There is no I mean, the debt in this country is huge. It goes in
the trillions. I were living in the gym, do you know that? And
yet, mashallah, we can still go around the world, like arrogant
people, you know, thinking we're in control of things. And yet, if
you look around, we've got a massive problem, economy,
economically
massive problem. We all are still borrowing. I don't know how to how
to balance that out. And it's not just this country, there's very
few countries who are fine.
They're the ones who are being attacked, actually. Which is
really a weird situation of this world, because you guys need to be
in the same boat as us. But it's just to make us think that the
only reason I say this is just that we're part of the system. So
are we also going to act in the same way on a micro scale? This is
what's happening on a macro level, are we also going to act like this
on a micro scale? Are we also going to be part of the false
economy and put ourselves into it?
SubhanAllah.
Today, if you do business studies, MBA, etc. What you're taught is to
make a business plan, find investors get a lot of money, put
some stocks, whatever, get huge amounts of money, you're pretty
much using other people's money. And you don't know where that
money goes. When the stock goes down. I still wonder where that
money goes, sometimes, you know, you buy some stock, and then
suddenly, the money's gone, the stock just goes down. The big
hype. That's crazy. People put money in there, that money is
gone. Suddenly, that goes into the ground. Where did it go? Anyway,
that's another story. I may be a bit ignorant on that subject
anyway. But the point is
that you want to do business businesses as soon as you want to
do business in which you can sleep at night that you don't have a
debt.
Let me give you a short example of one of the sahaba.
And now don't get me wrong, I'm not against having money. Because
if you look at the 10 that were that were guaranteed Jana, I
showed Mr. Bashara out of them. You had four of them that were
millionaires, billionaires, extremely wealthy. In fact, aside
from a boat or be the liberal gyro,
the others were decently well off. They
chose Amara didn't chose poverty but that's a different story. But
you never had like Abu Huraira and others in the top 10 In a sense,
they were great but they weren't in the mashallah mashallah
Taha ignore Obaidullah, Zubaydah Osman ignore affirm, and
Abdurrahman, even out of these were multimillionaires.
Abdul Rahman himself very interesting Sahabi. And among the
Sahaba,
anybody today, if they want to find a role model, they'll find
one in the sahaba. If you're a wealthy guy, you will find one in
the sahaba. If you're poor, you will find the poor,
your strong, you'll find that if you're an influencing person, if
you're a maverick kind of individual, you'll find that kind
of a person among this, if you're a follower, you'll find that among
us, but if you follow the Sahaba, and you take the color that data
consider that Allah woman asadmin, Allah is similar, then you will be
successful. And that's the whole point of this sample that Allah
gave us in the Sahaba, specially chosen selection, that had the
same diversity that would be available in any community, but
how they were all going to be successful because of what they
did. It's a poor person, they took the emaan, to give them the
patience and contentment with Allah's decree. And they went
through this world, but they have successful in the hereafter. If
they're wealthy, they did not allow the wealth to, to influence
them the way wealth generally influenced. Now remember, wealth
is not intrinsically a bad thing. It's not like some a snake. Yes,
it has the potential. Generally, when you mix wealth with a human
being, there's a certain short circuit that takes place, and the
dean kind of gets fizzled out. It's I mean, I hate to give this
example, but it's a very appropriate example.
We have the mother in law daughter in law problems in our
communities. And don't tell me you don't know about them. Right. Now,
the thing, my observation after dealing with so many of these
cases, if you take the mother in law, and look at her separately
among the community, she's a perfectly decent individual, no
problems. If you look at the daughter in law, again, she's a
decent individual, independently speaking, you put those two
together, and something happens.
Not all the time. But you know what I'm saying that something
happens, but you put them apart and they're fine. And our
communities don't know how to put leave them apart.
There's, we have some weird culture issues of having to be
together, but we can't be together. It's like trying to
unite opposites. And as opposites of magnets, it's just this real
weird situation we're in.
And generally speaking, I mean, I know have gone on to another
subject. But generally speaking, as some of the greatest the aroma
today are saying, it's the people who are bringing in the daughter
in law who are normally the oppressors,
the daughter in laws, oh, sometimes they're the oppressors
as well, they're to blame. But most of the time, it's those who
bring them in, because they have everything to their advantage.
They're set, they set the scene. But again, their individual cases
like that, but similarly in that kind of a situation, money, and
people, it starts corrupting them. Unless they've got special
fortification and their focus is on Allah, then that money will not
do anything, then that money suddenly becomes gold in your
hands. That's why the prophets and the lawyers have said, so great is
pure wealth in the hands of a pious individual. Because you need
money today. That's why the prophets of Allah Islam in the
Hadith, where he said that there's two people who can compete, law
has said the fifth, fifth and attain, there are two categories
of people that can compete. One is the one with knowledge, and the
other one is the one with money, as long as they're competing for
the sake of Allah subhanaw taala. That's where the true competition
lies only because both of these people can benefit one to educate,
and the other one, to build and to inhibit, and to develop, and so
on, you need both of these to come together. So wealth is very
important. In fact, the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, there's a
hadith that there will come a time when the only thing that will be
of benefit or will speak will, you know will have any influence is
dinars, underarms. And that's why one of the database in lathe Hypno
said I believe was Sophia and Ignalina one of them Sophia and
authority, or Sophia Medina, one of them, he said that if it wasn't
for the worlds that I've been endowed with, then these, these
rulers, the Omega bassins of the time, they would have literally
treated me like nothing. But I've got respect today because I have
my own wealth. They can't just order me around the way they want
to. So well does give you a level of autonomy, but then there's this
balance that you have to have with it. So now look at Abdurrahman
Alfredo, and I believe doing business this way will give you
more baraka and it's less prone to problems.
He left a
briefing from Makkah mukarram he's a Mahajan. He is one of the first
seven to become Muslim. He was one of the friends of Abu Bakr, Siddiq
or the Alon him Earthman. Set web workers, Zubaydah because they
used to get these two they have friends with Abu Bakr, Siddiq
Rodial. So when over Cardinal became Muslim, he mentioned to
them he said, Yeah, absolutely, you know, if you Abu Bakr was well
respected, right, we will accept it. So he was one of the first to
become a Muslim. Now, remember, these people had been in Mecca
macabre for centuries. These These were estate owners, how long is
our history in this country? How long do we go back? 40 years, 50
years maximum 60 years maybe somebody's you know, really been
here for a long time. Right. But if you look at the Spencer's and
the Windsors and all that they go back here for centuries, right?
They're the big landowners. So can you imagine taking them people
like them out of the country? Telling them go somewhere else and
leave everything abandon everything? You'll never see it
again? How difficult is that? It'd be difficult for us to go and
we've only probably only own a house and a car.
Right? Can you imagine? So they were told to leave everything so
you really have to understand the sacrifice of these marjorine Then
the profit center Lauridsen put the put a Mahajan, one of the my
emigrants together with
one of the unsolved now the unsolved.
They've got everything, but they're giving away half of
they're so sad. No, Robbie was the one who was important that as a
brother with Abdurrahman, Dybdahl for the Allah on the process and
put the two together. Side of Nairobi, Tolo Abdullah motive now
as soon as he was brought together with him, he says, An authorial
Ansari, Merlin, I am
the richest of the answer, I have the most wealth, you take half of
my wealth. I've got two wives.
Whichever one you want.
Right. Now, this is you might think, How can somebody do that
with their wife? You've only got one? I mean, you can't do that
with your wife. Right? You got? It's the level of SEC, how can you
do that with your world? Forget it. This has got nothing to do
with feminism or, you know, it's got nothing to do with that. If
you if the guy if he's saying that I've got two waves, which one do
you want? I'll divorce her and then you can after she's out of a
waiting period, then you know, you can marry her. If you're, you
know, you might think that's how can somebody do that? Well, how
can you give half of your wealth away?
It's the level of sacrifice here that we're talking about. It's
another level they're going to where they just for the sake of
Allah, you know? Now, of course, the wife will have to agree, you
know, that they will have to agree and all that. That's another part.
But I just want to clarify, because I know that what will
happen with some people, they'll think, How can you do that to his
wife, you know,
we can't do that to ours, we only have one we want to stick with our
wives, we're gonna go to gender to them inshallah. And the waves want
to stick with their husbands. In fact, that's the only relationship
that's going to be together in Ghana. So you better make it good
in this world. Right? Because who you're going to be engendered in
paradise with your spouse, not with your mother, not with your
father, not with your son, not with your daughter, not with your
friend. Yes, you can visit, but husband and wife are going to be
together in Ghana. So make sure you're fine with your husband and
wife, you know, your spouse in this world. So
Abdurrahman mouth, he could have said, Yeah, that's a great deal.
You know, I've just moved in that sorted I'm sorry. No, is that
Baraka? lofi Malika Alec, may Allah give you Baraka, in your
world, and in your family.
Just tell me where the market is.
He went to the market. And that same day, he already bought back
some foodstuff, some cheese and some butter or something. And this
is the way he started his business. Now I'm going to tell
you his secrets.
And he's secretly such
that there came a time when he said I can spend in the path of
Allah in the morning this much and Allah will give me 10 times that
amount at nights.
Once he gave 500 horses in the path of Allah, the next time you
get 1500 horses in the path of Allah, do you know what 1500
horses are worth?
Each horse is worth a few 1000
We're not talking. This is not a small amount here. Can you even
give you a kind of path of Allah one car that's worth 5000 10,000
pounds? Can you even do that? Unless it's a bank and you don't
want to get rid of it? Right? And you want to get tax write off or
something? Then you donate it to someone you know, like his. He
gave huge amounts of money. This is how we started off.
In fact, when he when he became ill, and he thought he was going
to pass away. Immediately he gave 1/3 of his entire wealth in the
feasibility Allah.
Now to give it to write that it be in the path of Allah after you die
is one
But it's much more difficult to give it while you're still alive
because most people will think I'm still gonna get I may become
better and there's many people who think they're gonna die and then
suddenly they become better and live for another 1020 years. So
many people like that. So for a person still to give away his
wealth, even 1/3 of his wealth while he's alive is a massive, now
he gave away 1/3 of his wealth and his wealth was in the millions.
You understand from this? Then after that, after he gave 1/3
away? Now he said that every buddy Sahabi every sahabi, who is who
took part in the Battle of burden that was originally 313 or three
and 15 Sahaba. So there must have been about 250 300 left at that
time, however many they were left, every one. They're gonna get 6000
leaners 6000 dinars.
6000 dinars is a huge amount. 20 dinars today is valued at 2000
pounds. That's the goal of nisab
20 dinars, which is the goal nisab after which have to basic art is
worth 2000 pounds to 20 dinars. So 6000 dinars, what are we talking
about?
I'm going to give that to everybody. Sahabi
even Earthman, or the Alon came to take his share. Somebody said to
the thunder, why do you need to take it was one of the I was
loaded? He's the other million in a multimillionaire. Why do you
need it? He said, How the merlon How Hala loompa YouTube. This is
pure wealth. This is not sadaqa. He's not giving it a sadhaka. He's
giving it a Silla to tie the bones of kinship. That's why he's giving
it he's not giving it a Southerner, this is not for poor.
This is for because many of the batteries are becoming wealthy.
This is another reason he's giving you so I'm going to take his
blessing in that wealth.
Then what happened is, when he actually passed away, he had three
wives, he left three wives behind. How much does the wife get?
It when the husband passes away? How much does the wife received
from his estate? Okay, they receive if there's no children,
they receive one quarter. All right. And if they have children,
then they receive one, eight, because you expect the children to
look after him as well. Right? So they get 1831. Now, if you got if
a person has more than one wife, they have to share in that they
don't each get one eight. So that's probably one good reason
why women don't want co wives. That's not the reason believe me.
That's not the reason that's that they don't care about that. I want
the money. I just don't want you to have another wife and have the
right to do that. Right. It's it's autonomy. That's necessarily what
they want. Anyway, each one of his wives just cash. They received
liquid wealth and just dinars dinner their homes, been as they
received. Each of them received 80,000 dinars. Three of them got
80,000 Each, which makes it 240,000 dinars of just liquid
wealth, which was which total to 1/8 of his estate.
That was besides the camels and the real estate and the goats and
sheep and everything else that he owned. Just the wealth that he had
was that 1/8 of it amounted to 240,000 dinars gold coins, gold
pieces.
So what kind of money there Yeah, but
Subhanallah this is, you see, look at the difference between him and
somebody who gets their first nice car.
And I don't want to stereotype but you haven't you just got a nice
new dress or you got a nice new Louis Vuitton bag. Now the thing
is that everybody's carrying a Louis Vuitton bag nowadays, I
don't even know what the big deal is anymore. Right? So don't get
one you don't need to it's not a big deal anymore.
Just get a practical handbag.
So a guy's got a nice suit. He just got a canali Giorgio Armani,
right. Suit.
And he's walking down he's very conscious. The woman is very
conscious. I've got this suit on what reaction is it going to
provide?
And so hon Allah we're so into bling bling today that even the
Khalifa.
The so called Khalifa.
Even he has a nice watch.
What was it?
Was it a Rolex? I don't know what it was.
Allah, I mean, I don't want to judge but mashallah, everybody's
into it. My watch. Alhamdulillah is a nice citizen I've had for
about no joke about 17 years. Somebody gave me this as a gift
and it's still running Hamdulillah 17 years citizens are quite good.
But what I'm trying to say is that we're so into this. This is the
world that we're around it
But when you've got something like that on, it attracts attention.
When it stops attracting attention, you buy another one.
That's the nature. That's the way we deal with these things. That
means it's become old. When that next Amazon order comes through
the excitement you have the pleasure you have opening that
box. Once you've done in, you've taken it out, it's finished. Now
you have to order it again. You have to do the whole thing again.
Isn't that how we feel? How do we deal with these things? This is
what I'm this is the challenge of today. This is the challenge of
today. Mass consumerism, mass consumerism.
A poor sister she contacted me the other day by email she saying, I
just can't help shopping.
I go online so many times a day and and then I go to town so many
times a day. And I don't know if you guys understand going to town.
It's a very northern thing in London is like going to the city
downtown. City Center, West End, but in up north is going to town.
So then I was like I have to help her. So I told her a few things.
And then I said okay,
maybe next week, just let me know how many times you've been in the
last week. So when you have to answer to somebody, it's somebody
I know well, so
she still went twice, and reduced the online but because she'd been
very busy because she was traveling, but she still went to
town twice. It's just a shopper to be Shopaholic is a massive
problem. Both men and women did they have a problem with this?
Once you get into it, and you don't understand what is the real
substance of life, then you just go behind these things.
So massive problem. So you got a nice car now you're there's a
smirk on your face. People you know what, what are they thinking
about me? You're not really focused on your driving. You're
focused on what people are watching what seeing what not
everybody is like that. But this is generally what money does to
people. So how do you not do that? Then we find the examples and
people like Earth man with the Allahu Anhu. So reclaiming what
the biographers they say that when he started his business, this is
the way he started his business.
He went to the market purchased a camel on credit.
Let me buy this camel. I'll pay you for it in a few hours. Right
now. It's very clever. Very clever what he did, I'll pay you and then
he sold it pretty instantly for the same price I think oh, he sold
it minus the rope.
Minus the rope. I bought the communist mine now. He I'm sending
you this couple but not the rope. You know you buy your own rope.
The price is what I paid for it. I'm going to have a quick sale but
I've made a little profit. Slowly, slowly these ropes added up and he
bought his own camel.
Then he carried on and he had many many combs. And you know a camel,
a sheep goat today is about 80 to 100 pounds. 120 pounds a nice one
cows of about 400 500 Nice Angus beef, you know from Scottish is
probably seven 800 Maybe right? Camels at about 1000 pounds today.
So mashallah, eventually he had quite a few camels. So what you're
going to start buying cars and like pulling out stuff from it
tomorrow.
I mean,
today, what's the string today?
So many disposable, we're gonna throw this away. But in those
days, those things mattered. There was value for everything because
we didn't have the false abundance that we have today.
You think the company that makes this water or this company called
Kleenex?
You think it buys everything with money that they do have? What do
you think they buy it on credit for so many years? Okay, there are
some companies who are just taking everybody's money like Apple,
right, who's got huge reserves, right. But generally, it's all on
interest. So we're in a bubble.
So slowly, slowly, and then it says I love the word. I just can't
translate it properly into English for Rob ah, who be sadaqa
for a deja Arata who will be sadaqa.
he nurtured his business with sadaqa.
You know, you have to put compost and you have to water your, your
your plant. So he watered, he looked after he nurtured his
business with sadaqa.
And it just increased and increased and increased. Until
came a time when he said
I can pick up a stone and I'll find golden dirt. Not literally.
But Allah has given me so much Baraka now.
Now look at his state. What we learn from this approach to
business is that you take on only what you can deal with. So at
night, you can sleep, everything goes you're not in debt. It's what
you have is your what you have
And this is a big problem that people don't understand today.
What benefit do you get from buying a new sofa?
Or a nice new television? Or a nice new
memory foam bed that costs What's that company?
Tempo, right? Cost 2000 pounds beds right? Now if you need is
good, it's you know, martial, it's good for your back. It's It's good
if you're used to that. But what I'm saying is, if you're buying
all of this on credit, I'm going to pay over three, three years. I
wouldn't I don't feel comfortable with that kind of stuff. It's not
yours, you don't feed it's yours. And by the time you've actually
paid off, it's worn out now.
So what are we doing?
What are we doing? Why not just buy something outright. With
filter work Quran, Allah subhana wa Tada because being in debt is
not a good thing.
Of course, you have to be sometimes if you have to be, but
buy what you can buy, don't be extravagant, don't take on beyond
our means.
And you'll be much happier. If I've paid for what I've got, I
will feel it's mine, I will feel much better. There's more Baraka
in it.
But otherwise, it's like it's on my head, it's on my head, it's on
my head.
So this is the world we're living in. These are our challenges.
These are things to think about. Because right now regardless of
what our state is, we have a lot of money. And if we don't think
Allah subhanaw taala we don't know how long it's gonna last. You look
around you look at the abundance in these big stores, you go into
the amount of merchandise, which is coming from many countries in
which they're paying peanuts. But you think why are we chosen to be
here in this position, and to benefit from this, the people we
could have so easily have been on the other end in Bangladesh, or in
India or wherever it isn't doing that. Allah has chosen us to be
here. What are we going to do with that? We don't thank Allah
subhanho wa Taala we don't show gratitude, they will take it away.
It's just dips, the we're just it's just where we are right now.
Allah placed this where he where he's placed us, we have to be
thankful to Allah subhana wa Tada Subhanallah sometimes I look at
our breakfast or lunch or supper and you will literally see that we
have things from five different countries
you know your your child will will be from basmati from India or
Pakistan, your masalas will be from somewhere else. Right spices,
your your oranges will be from Spain, your grapes will be from
Peru or wherever it is. Your dates will probably be from Israel or
you know, Inshallah, you know, not Palestine.
Remember what the Hadith mentions the Hadith mentions that if your
substance is increasing, but you are not getting closer to Allah
subhanaw taala then that is a deception. That's STD Raj. That's
just Allah loosening the rope.
So if we're not getting closer to Allah, but things are just going
right in the world, then don't think that Allah loves us.
Necessarily.
That that's why he's giving us so much he gives to his enemies who's
the richest people in the world today? Who are some of the richest
people in the world today. The world is doesn't is not of any
value to Allah subhanho wa Taala some said low in the Hadith dunya
low the low end Allah He Jana hubba Oh, Dalton, masa caca Ramona
schibetta Mima, if this world was to amount to even the wing of a
mosquito
wing, in the sight of Allah, he would not give a disbeliever even
a drop of water to drink. But because it's not worth even that
much he gives world is for everybody. Allah does not
discriminate there. It's what we do with it. It's the state of the
heart. It's what we're going to do, and our approach, that's why
we have to be thankful to Allah subhanho wa taala. And we have to
be trying to get close to him. Imam Hassan Ali is one statement
just really makes me frightened. It gave me spiritual crisis.
He said that if a person reaches the age of 40, and his good and
virtue does not overcome his evil, then he has less of a chance
afterwards.
And for me, that was gave me the shadows for me. Because
40 is a mature age. That's the age when people become prophets.
And if our good has not overcome our bad, then we've matured on
evil, then it's less it's more difficult afterwards to change.
You can't mess around until 3939 and a half then I got six months
to change. Because the way our life works is that one thing takes
to another it's very difficult to change and
less, some massive occurrence happens in our life and gives us a
wake up call. That's why there's only one thing that is going to
wake us up. Believe me, there's only one thing that's going to
wake us up, which is the feeling of our mortality, that we're going
to die one day, you know, when that realization hits you, that's
the only thing that works in this world.
You you're involved in an accident, you see an accident, you
wake up on one of those miserable mornings having had a bad dream.
And you just think about your life and you had one of those, you
know, one of those reflection reflective moments, unfortunately,
doesn't stay for too long, and you think it's good, it's gone. But
those are the thoughts that are going to keep a street in this
world.
I'm gonna die one day.
People have changed their lives when they thought about death,
when the concept of death hit them. They changed their lives. We
have some of the biggest scholars today who became Muslim convert
scholars who became Muslim because they realized that they were going
to die, they could have died.
Until we don't think about our death enough. That tomorrow I'm
going to stand in front of Allah. Tomorrow, I'm gone from this
world. Then what? What am I taking? What am I doing for that
house up there? That's going to give us balance in this world.
Without that mind process, we're stuck.
We're in this chase, blind Chase, going round and round ending up in
the same place as we started from. That's our life today. It's no
different. Now you might think it can't change. It can change you
have Oui, oui, oui. The problem with us is that we're so engaged
and engrossed and so stuck in our material system and the systems of
the world that we've reduced ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada.
Do you think it's beyond Allah subhanho wa Taala to make you a
person who can make the Hajj every night you think he can't do that
for you?
You think he has no power to do that? Allahu Allah Khalifa in
Cadiz. You think he can't do that?
He can do everything he you know, this world I recently I saw this
website.
It shows you a picture of the world, the earth as compared to
the moon size factors, then it shows you the Earth and the Moon
as in comparison to the larger planets, and the smaller planets,
then it shows you all of these planets in comparison to the sun.
And you can just imagine the scale here. Alright, then it shows you
the Sun and Earth in comparison to a greater planet to get what it's
called right now. No, no, no, no, sorry, another star out of the way
out of the out of our solar system. Another star, the Sun is
just one star in all of those stars that we see. And that's a
bigger star. And then there's another one. And then after that
it shows you 1000s of stars that you can just see twinkles. Then it
zooms into one place and says Do you see anything there and you
don't. But then the Hubble telescope was fixed on that place
for several months. And what they captured was there was amazing
what they captured in what seemed to be emptiness. They captured a
whole other galaxy that has all of these different stars in there. So
we are totally insignificant in that sense. We're nothing in that
sense, that really struck me as to where are we who are we and what
is Allah subhanaw taala. And but the great thing is that Allah
chose us out of all of these creatures and made us It made us a
shuffle mclucas Welaka Khurana, buddy, Adam, we honored the
Children of Adam, that's us. SubhanAllah. But we have to act
like servants of Allah, it's for a test this world is for a test. The
real world is the Hereafter. And achieving the balance can only be
done if we focus on what this life is where we're supposed to go.
And the only thing that's going to remind us is our death to be
constantly thoughtful of our day. So the few things just to finish
up, I'll take some questions just to finish off a few things that we
need to do. We of course, we need to make sure we make our
obligations on time, our salah, etc. That's the minimum we can do.
And we avoid the Haram as much as possible. Anything that's
prohibited. And if we ever do the Haram then we make Toba and stick
for as soon as possible. Because Allah understands that we will
make mistakes and that's why we have this whole institution of the
of Istighfar. Now besides that, that's just that's just enough,
that's just fulfilling the obligation. How do we get into
Allah's good books? How do we turn Allah's attention to us? How do we
get him to shower us with his real favors? Give us contentment of the
heart. Look after our families
Let us not see a bad day with our children, with our businesses, how
we can remain away from depression, sadness, worries and
grief, law hope and pray him, whether hunger has known how we
can be satisfied to meet Allah subhanho wa Taala look forward to
meet him. How we can be of the earlier Allah can make us of
those, if we have that desire that will project our life in that
direction. So if anybody is cutting themselves in the foot is
us. Allah is there to give, he has the ability to give everyone there
is no restriction in the bandwidth here. It's available the Rama and
mercy. It's all there as much as you want. Everybody can tap into
it. But the problem is that we have restricted our thought the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said that Allah said,
in the Vanya dB, I am with my servants as he thinks of me.
So if we think Allah can't really do it, he's not going to do it for
us. If we think Allah can make me a weenie of Allah, He will make
your way of Allah. Eventually you will get to that position. Allah
why do we restrict ourselves? Can you guys not sit and think? Can we
not think I want to be a half is of the Quran
sounds miles away. But is it haram to have that thought? Does it cost
to have that thought
the men and the women should have this thought I mentioned this
point in a in Gloucester, I was in Gloucester. And
I met a guy came to me afterwards 64 years old. And he said I
started memorizing the Quran.
A year ago, something like that. And I've done seven years of the
Quran Seven Super 64 years old.
Then I had an I met a friend of mine, a classmate of mine,
who is older than me.
His mother just finished memorizing the Quran.
And you know, she's a mother, she's a grandmother, she just
finished memorizing the Quran.
You got the desire.
And you just start off is difficult, but you make dua to
Allah subhanaw taala, you will see Allah can do whatever he wants.
And if he if you don't have enough life, and it's not written for us,
you'll get the reward for it. There are people that will be
given the reward of a martyr even though they died on their bed.
Because there was that desire
is the desire that matters. So don't shortchange ourselves. Is it
too difficult for Allah to make us half of the Quran to make us a
weary of Allah to make us Mr. Gela with that word, that Oh Allah,
every day I make it becomes accepted. Even as beyond Allah.
It's beyond us. It's not beyond Allah. We don't even ask. We
become Satan has told us you're doomed. shader has told us your
sinful shaitan has told us your fossick is only for the molana as
it's only for the other mites only for this and it's only for those
people. No, it's for everybody. Doesn't matter who you are.
Whether you drive a taxi or whether you're adopted does it
make a difference? Every that's just a worldly occupation. What
matters is our heart with Allah subhanaw taala that's what
matters. So aside from the photo is that we do and the Haram that
we abstain from the few things that we should do each day.
100 is still hard in the morning and evening. Which is so Navasota
Sallows stuff EULA Robin colada may want to do it 100 times
morning 100 times in the evening.
It doesn't take that long, but you will actually start feeling warm
in your heart that I'm actually doing something
number two 100 times Salawat on the prophets Allah Allah is a
morning and evening we owe so much to him Rasulullah sallallahu lism
Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala Sayidina Muhammad
are vertical 700 times morning 100 times evening. Number three, read
some Quran a day.
Everybody think how much Quran can they read a day?
I don't care if you say one page. I don't care if you say half a
page. There's one one woman who
the Sheikh said to you know how much Quran Can you read a day? I
don't have time. I got no time with my kids. I don't have any
time. No, no, you must them. You have to there has to be some. So
just to get our wishes I'll do one versus there's no point you do
want versity
hamdulillah today she thanks the sheikh she says that
I opened the Quran for one higher obviously I'm going to read more
than one so now she reads more than that. We have a right to the
Quran. The Quran inspires the Quran is the lights. Everybody
should at least open the Quran once so it tells me how much can
you do
everybody you know if you have is of the crown you'll be able to do
more some people can do one Jews some people can do to some you're
gonna do have some people new quarter, somebody who can do one
page, but whatever it is Think to yourself right now. I'll do half a
page I'll do two is whatever. Pull a Quran down
open it and read that much a day.
Brothers and sisters
right so Quran
number four, do some additional vicar whether that be La Ilaha
illa Allah Subhanallah hamdulillah or more powerful meditation just
to be focused on Allah subhanho wa Taala with your heart because that
then gives you focus even in your Salah and so on.
Meditation is very powerful maraca vicar of the heart, which is pure
sunnah. Just wonderful.
One more thing I'll mention, especially for the sisters,
because they don't have the wood job of going to pray with Gemma in
the masjid. There's one thing I'll tell all the sisters they, if you
can do you will be
all it is is doing if you wake up for Fudger anyway, most people are
in the habit of waking Fudger towards the end of the times you
get a bit, you get half an hour more or 45 minutes more, what I
would suggest the women can definitely do this. And the men
can also do this, especially if they don't come to the masjid to
preach amount.
What you do is find the beginning time of Fudger and wake up 25
minutes before that
you're only going to be awake for another 1015 minutes more than
normal. But you're just going to wake up earlier one hour earlier.
That's it. So rather than trying to wake up 10 minutes before Fajr
time and quickly rush and do we'll do and then get a few sessions
Done. Done. Right. Not that wake up before Fajr 25 minutes, do
we'll do five minutes, whatever. And then do two or four gods of
Tahajjud prayer.
Minimum two records, if you can only do if you can only wake up 15
minutes do five minutes of will do. Women can definitely do this
on the days they pray, and then do to record for the cuts of the
Hydra pray and then five minutes of DA and when you finish your
door and be Fajr time pray to the gods of sunnah and then forward
and go to sleep.
Especially for the women, for the men, they have to come to the
masjid they should, you know, preferably pray and jump out or
whatever. But the women can definitely do this. And what I've
observed is that when women start doing this in the house, the
husbands will follow.
Men can't let women go ahead candy. But the path to Allah were
both the same. And sometimes women just by looking after their
children and working behind their children, gets them higher up in
the sight of Allah than men can do by sitting and doing a vicar
because you know, the effort that they have to put that women have
to put into work, sacrifice, sleepless nights, the show, you
have said that we've seen women who are on the path, progress
faster than young guys who are doing lots of dhikr sometimes
Allah has made a difference. They've given them you know, the
given this natural responsibility, and I'm not saying legal
responsibility, okay? I'm saying natural responsibility. But
there's a massive benefit in that. But I will say to the women make
your Tahajjud prayer is only going to take 15 more minutes, but
believe me, it will brighten your face. This is the secret of the
Olia. It's a secret of the people of Allah they you can't become
close to Allah without the 100 I mean, generally speaking, that's
what's their secret. So from tomorrow inshallah wake up earlier
and do the 100 prayer, and then you'll find your prayer. And then
inshallah the menfolk will follow. I'm telling the women fall but you
guys are listening, you're in between, between me and the women.
So you better do it as well.
Allah subhanho wa Taala accept from us, Allah subhanho wa Taala
accept from us. May Allah subhanho wa Taala make this easy for us
just make a quick dua Allahumma into Santa Monica Sara Tabarrok
the other jewelry with the Quran Allah Houma Yeah How are you?
Yeah. Are you in bureau of medical mysteries Allahumma Yeah, Han No,
no, you haven't learned the Subhanak in Quran I mean authority
mean? Just Allah who are no Mohammed Amma who? Oh Allah except
our doors of Allah except our gathering in this Masjid. Oh
Allah, Oh Allah we ask that you treat us with Your Mercy of Allah
We ask that you forgive us our sins of Allah We ask that you
forgive us our shortcomings of Allah We ask that you purify our
heart of Allah, O Allah, we ask that you shower us with Your Mercy
of Allah We can't go to any other Door of Allah all those are
closed. Oh Allah, all those are useless except your door. Oh
Allah. Oh Allah, we know that you're the only giving one. You're
the generous one. You're the Jawad al Karim. You're the Clement one.
You're the forbearing one. And you're the extremely generous one.
Oh Allah, you're the merciful one. You're the Compassionate One. Oh
Allah, you're the loving one. Oh Allah. Oh Allah we ask that you
treat us with Your Mercy of Allah you treat us like you treat your
chosen servants of Allah. We ask that you purify our hearts. Oh
Allah, we ask that you make our hearts the way you want them, of
Allah that You give us love for obedience in our hearts so that we
want to do it and that you take away the love for any disobedience
from Allah.
hurts that we hate to do it. Oh Allah, Oh Allah we don't want to
do your disobedience. Oh Allah but Allah these are the pressures that
surround us. We ask that you make our surrounding conducive to our
faith to fulfilling your sunnah of your messenger sallallahu alayhi
wa salam, O Allah,
we ask that you treat us and you purify our hearts because we're
worse than children sometimes, Oh Allah, sometimes you have a child
who become soiled, and is a child that everybody wants to pick up.
When it dirt is it's nappy, and it becomes dirty and smelly. Nobody
wants to pick that child up anymore. But Oh Allah, when it
comes to the mothers, you've given so much mercy in their heart, they
will pick this child up, they will dirty their own hands, they will
wash this child and perfume this child and then draw them close to
their heart again, oh Allah and make that child nice smelling
again. Oh Allah, our state, internal state. If it was to be
exposed outside, then people would shun us. People would shun us, Oh
Allah, we ask that you who are more merciful than all the mothers
in this world, pick us up and purify us. Oh Allah you. We learn
of Your mercy through many ways. You told Musa and Harun Ali he was
salam to go and speak to Pharaoh, in a gentle manner, said Gula
Allahu Kola, Li and Allah Allah Who here does echo Yaksha and
Pharaoh was someone who used to say hon como Allah, I am your
highest load of Allah far from that we say Subhana neurobiol we
say that our Lord Most High we're believers in you. So Allah if you
told Musa and Haroon to gently speak to Pharaoh who is a tyrant,
then we expect that you're going to treat us with mercy. And if it
wasn't for this mercy, then we'd be totally doomed. Oh Allah we've
seen that UNASUR the Allahu Anhu he served the messenger sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam for 10 whole years. And he says that never did
the messengers and Allah doesn't ever tell him. Why did you do
this? Or why did you do that? So much mercy, so much mercy shown by
your messenger, that he forgave all of his aggresses on the
conquest on the day of the conquest of Makkah. Oh Allah but
still you gave him that mercy. And then you you retain 99% of all
mercy. So Allah we our focus is entirely on your mercy of Allah
that You forgive us our sins, that you forgive us our sins. You help
our Muslim brothers and sisters around the world. You help our
Muslim brothers and sisters around the world, that you have mercy on
the Muslim ummah. Oh Allah have mercy on us. Oh Allah, Oh Allah
have mercy on our streets with compassion. Oh Allah.
Make the make the later part of our life better than the earlier
parts of our life. And oh Allah make the best of days and best of
moments that day and the moment we stand in front of you, Oh Allah,
that we're pleased to be in front of you and you're pleased to see
us. Oh Allah and we ask you one final thing that you send your
abundant blessings and our messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam that you give us to drink from his hands on the day
of judgment and that you give us his company in June little fear
dos engender to fear those? Oh Allah, Oh Allah accept our do us
Subhan Allah because Allah is at the end, you'll see food in our
salah, and when I'll more Selena will hamdulillah
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