Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Attaining Steadfastness in a Fast Changing World
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dear respected elders, brothers and sisters. It's an absolute
honor to be here in Bolton on this Saturday evening.
And we ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to make this beneficial gathering.
Saturday evenings are very valuable. From a worldly
perspective. That's the time when people go out visit each other.
It's generally a no cooking day women are generally on strike on
Saturday nights Go, go and patronize the restaurants around
you.
And this is when you visit each other or you go out shopping. So
to come and sit in the masjid on this in this evening is I think a
big sacrifice for people. So Allah subhanho wa Taala reward us for
the sacrifice.
And may Allah subhanahu wa taala give baraka in our time, so that
the time that we've given in sha Allah for him with sincerity, and
Allah grant of sincerity, that Allah subhanho wa Taala give us
such a blessing and baraka and opening
an extension in our time that any chores that we have to do and we
have many to do that they get fulfilled as well. Small time
given to Allah subhanho wa Taala gives you Baraka
because time is in the hands of Allah subhanho wa Taala give Allah
some time and he will open up time for you, it will be the same
amount of time, the same number of hours as such, but they will
suddenly seem elongated, much more extensive, much more
accommodating, much more accomplishing, you'll be able to
do much more in there. And that's the ajeeb system of Allah subhanaw
taala that he's in charge of everything. And as long as we
attach ourselves to Him,
then we are successful.
The first thing I want to speak about today is that when it comes
to anything else in this dunya we become more and more professional,
each year, each day each week. And as time goes past, we become much
more refined in everything that we do and in our tastes. What do I
mean by that?
For those who work outside and have to wear a suit, I'm not going
to talk about halal or haram. I'm just saying Whoever works out
there and has to wear a suit. Just a simple example. And I think it's
a very inappropriate example, the first time that you have to buy a
suit because you have to go to your interview. Now it could be a
company suit, but you know what I mean?
You will probably be happy with just getting one from Primark do
they sell suits in Primark?
Primark or Georgiou as the that means Walmart. But after that, you
probably don't want to be seen dead in one. You become more
refined, people will start talking about it. And then you have to get
one from Debenhams. Then after that people don't stop short of
something like Giorgio Armani canali George Franco Ferreyra and
what else Italian Italian stuff then it becomes more refined then
you want hand stitched suits. So we become refined and everything.
Now that's just in terms of clothing.
When it comes to handbags, for the sisters, we mustn't forget the
sisters. It's the same old thing you start off with a handbag then
it gets the more glittery one, then it gets one that's got this
or it has this particular image and then after that there has to
be Louie Vuitton. So everybody's carrying an LV bag wherever you
go. It's like what's the big deal?
You're the you're the same Subhanallah when it comes to young
people, it has
To be certain types of garments and clothing, and to have to be
loud, you have to be boasting of these things. And then a certain
volume of four sisters at the moment. Okay. Well maybe that's
good that didn't hear that.
When is it going to come on? Two minutes
I don't want to make a comment about microphones but microphones
and mustards. They don't seem to go together for some reason.
When I came in this lesson, I thought about this microphone.
Because mashallah, it is it's a very good microphone system, Allah
rewards you guys. And Michelle exhibited this question as well
may Allah subhanaw taala make example of this for our iman.
Because that's the main thing. And you know, there is there is of
course, a connection between feeling comfortable in a masjid, a
masjid, that is open, a masjid that smells nice, you feel better
a masjid in which you have a good Imam, good reading, you're going
to feel better in your salads. Of course, nothing compares to the
Haramain. But Subhanallah they have spent huge amounts of money
to make the experience that you do feel, and it does help these
things do help. And you know, some of us might be saying this is all
banal, but this is all artificial. That's not the case. We are human
beings. This is the kind of things that we relate to we associate
with we benefit from, there's a great scholar of Baghdad of the
seventh or eighth century, a bill for a juvenile Josie, who was a
prolific writer, great Allama great Allama great humbly scholar,
and in his gatherings in his majorities in his Bionz 100,000
People used to attend in Budda Budda was the double philosopher.
So you can imagine what kind of population we're speaking about.
So 100,000 people attending a gathering without a microphone?
How did the voice even reach them? Subhanallah that's just something
to think about. I mean, they had a system in place where there would
be people sitting at different intervals to convey to those
people who and the match this would be all around. So it
wouldn't be like this one sided, it'd be all around, you probably
have to turn around, to be able to you know, go around to be able to
address everybody Wallah who Ireland. Anyway, he had, he was
very effective in his speech. He was very effective in terms of his
bonds, and his speeches were very effective. On one occasion, he
used to think a lot, his reflections are many, and that's
why he has an entire book of his reflections, ruminations that are
called is called sidle Harter, capturing the thoughts capturing
his thoughts. And it's a quite a wonderful book because it speaks
about many, many do his observations about things. It's
like a Twitter. It's like a like an old Twitter account. Right? But
very valuable coming from a great scholar, not just these random
tweets, Hey, I saw these beautiful shoes.
I wish I could have them. You've seen these weird tweets, some
somebody has 70 followers, but he's got 30 40,000 tweets. How can
you speak so much?
You know, how can you speak so much? I wonder sometimes
Subhanallah in sometimes if I have to tweet I'm like really thinking
What should I say? What should I say? Because we are responsible
for every word we say.
So anyway, this was the old Twitter. So if you want to see old
Twitter, look at Seidel, Harter wonderful, wonderful everything,
every bit of detail in there is wonderful. So what he says he says
that, I saw that the effect that people were having from my beyond
my lectures, my speeches and influence he was having, making
them cry, making them you know, different emotions to bring out
different emotions in people. He felt that one time that he was
artificial, because he used to use a lot of poetry. Poetry is very
effective poetry in any language is considered to be the highest
level of that language. Because you need to be able to, you need
to be able to say what you want in a very short phrase using the most
appropriate and effective words. So you have to have a mastery of
the language. And that's why one of the greatest speakers during
Atala shabiha this time with Allah this time in, in the subcontinent,
he's he's written a book on how to speak and he says in the,
sometimes the person could be speaking for two hours, but just a
perfectly placed poem will be remembered much more by the
gathering than the entire lecture. Sometimes that's how effective
poetry is. So he says he used to use a lot of poetry. It's only in
our time that poetry unfortunately has become something I mean, if I
was to ask today, how many of us know a poem in English, it'd be
hard pressed unless it's like a copy of some machine or something.
You know, on the day the deeds will be displayed. I know for one
I'll be afraid or something like that, you know, somebody, one of
the otherwise who knows poetry, otherwise in Arabic in order to
it's a very high level of
expression. It's artistic. And that's what it SubhanAllah. But
our school is all about visual now. It's all about learning
through visual aids, really learning things is just in the
house class. That's why the kids find it so difficult because
nowhere else do they have to bang their head so much. That's why
they find it so difficult. It's a sad case, before whether you in
the western world or the Eastern world, it didn't matter, you
memorize things, things were done through memorization.
That now our brains, they don't accept that the muscle has
stagnant the brain is a muscle, the more you use it, the more it
will, it will grow, the more you solve problems, that's why our
children, we should never tell them. If they you know, many of
our children, they're very clever, they're very smart. So what we do
is we tell them, hey, you're really smart. You know, you're
really clever, mashallah, you know, you're really good at this.
So when they solve a problem, whether it's, you know, homework
of maths or whatever, we generally say to them that
you're very clever. Now, let's not tell them they're clever only,
because being clever, there's a lot of kids, they think they're
clever. And what it does is actually works against them.
Because what it does is that it makes them feel that I don't mean
it to work hard, they just get it. But then they don't do anything
more, they just suffice on the basic amount. So instead of that,
what research shows is you should tell them after they've just
solved a problem, you know, what your brain has just grown.
Your brain has just grown, or gives them the, that gives them
enough motivation to feel that I can continue I'm getting somewhere
as opposed to I'm just clever. It's a big, it's a big issue. And
if you've got clever children, you need to know how to manage them to
get the best out of them because the human needs individuals. And
it's a God's gift to you. It's Allah subhanho wa Taala as gift to
you, you need to know how to use it. So ignore Josie Rahim Allah,
He says that I once felt that it was all artificial. So I said, I'm
going to stop using poetry. I'm just going to mention Quran and
Hadith. And you know, just keep it real, as they say. And he noticed
that the the effects that he was having actually dwindle in terms
of the attendance in terms of the effect in terms of the follow up,
and so on. And then he came to his senses. And after making staccato,
whatever, he said, No, I need to bring that in. Because that is the
way people need to be effected. People need to be brought to their
feet by using whether it's poetry or whatever, at the end of the
day. So that's why I say that these external things as long as
you don't overdo it, and it doesn't become it doesn't become
the objective in themselves. There is a thing there's one thing still
lacking in our massages, though, I've seen many great massage and
but there's only one Masjid where I've seen this one particular, we
take care of the visual aspect, we take care of, you know, the
carpets and all the decoration, we spend huge amounts of money. But
the one thing we still don't take care of
which even cars take care of you know, these expensive cars, they
actually choose the smell that their car wants to give you. So
when you buy that Mercedes or that special car, there's a certain
smell that's associated with the leather in that car. You know, the
process that leather goes through in terms of its tanning and
everything, there's no smell left at the end of it, it's totally
neutralized. That smell is placed back in there. It's an artificial
smell. But that's the signature smell that's been formulated for
that particular company. The sound of the engine of a Jaguar needs to
be that wild English sound because it's an English car, or the sound
of a Mustang needs to be that wild American sound that Barabara you
know, it's just like this crazy sound. So all of these things are
taken into consideration because it gives you an experience and our
massages we can't take care of everything. But it's only one
mustard. I went into Houston and there was a major basketball
player. And this was he had brought he had he purchased the
building of the Bank of Houston. And you know, they still had the
big vault downstairs and everything like they turned into a
masjid. And that was the mercy when you're going to the new place
that will do Cana you could there was mouthwash available as well.
It was you know maybe you'd say that's too much. But when you go
in there there's a smell I went into a bed factory in badly that's
owned by a relative and matter. There's a really nice smell there.
Not a bad smell, not a fabric smell a nice fragrance. And I said
Where's that coming from? So he showed me these professional
dispensers. Not those glade ones you buy in Sainsbury's, I'm not
talking about those, these are professional, professional
scent extractors that are for industrial places. And I think our
mustards can use them because it does make a difference. I mean,
you go into arabinoside you they have the borehole and so on. So
I'm not saying this machine smells bad. I'm not saying that I'm doing
it doesn't it's a good experience here. I don't want to get in
trouble. And it doesn't smell bad. But I'm just saying that's just
one thing. Anyway, that's all about
aesthetics, it's all about all about that. At the end of the day,
I forget how we got to that subject. But the point is that
every lecture remember, we are so refined in everything day by day,
year by year, we much more refined, you know where to eat,
you know, we're not to eat, we can critique food, we can critique a
restaurant, and we listen to others in their critique, when it
comes to everything in our life, when it comes to cars, the first
time you just buy a car, you're happy to have a car, you have to
have a set of wheels, the next time then it needs to be of a
particular type. Then within that particular type. There's engine
sizes, and then I just learned recently there's also bhp, right?
Right. And it gives you more talk. I was like, What's the difference?
So you learn these things Subhanallah so we become much more
refined.
However, Ramadan just went
was our Ramadan any better than last year? Or better than 10 years
ago when we fasted for the ones who are older among us, when it
comes to our deen is our approach to our deen also becoming so
refined, that we become gourmet connoisseur connoisseurs of our
religion in a way that we want the best from our religion, just like
we want the best car, we want it to look in a particular way. We
want it to be a particular model our clothing and everything. I
mean, the kurta industry is the same thing now. You know, some
people they have to get a particular brand, whether that's
Sciacca or rethrow, or Loango, Tojo, whatever it is, right? At
the end of the day, everything we look at in the dunya that's the
nature of the world. That's how people make money. And in the
West, we are bombarded left, right and center and even in the East
now you're bombarded left, right and center in terms of just
by, by and by consumerism, capitalism, merchandising, this is
what we're dealing with day in and day out, it's very difficult for
us to restrain ourselves, for us to withstand these attacks
wherever we go and not feel like having something that is, I mean,
even the so called Khalifa of the, the ISIS even he's got a nice
watch Subhanallah even he couldn't avoid it. So he had Allah Allah
knows best where he got it from, but you know, even he has to have
what is it appeared was a Rolex. Okay, you're gonna get one. Okay.
Subhanallah so that's the nature of the world today.
And there's nothing wrong with looking good. There's nothing
wrong with that is a hobby who must have heard certain Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam speak about ostentation and showing off
and boasting and pride and arrogance. So he came through
Rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he said to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
You've seen the handsomeness that Allah subhanho wa Taala has
bestowed me with he was a very handsome Sahabi. You've seen the
beauty that Allah has given me. And I love my clothing to be good
and excellent. And you and I, up to the strap of my sandal I like
that to be the best is that pride he was concerned is that pride?
And the boys are awesome said no, that is not pride. So pride is not
that you use good things, as long as it doesn't get to your heart.
That's not the problem. The problem is pride. And arrogance is
when you reject the truth. And you look down upon others.
You look down upon others. However, prosperity has its own
problems, which is what I'm going to speak about today. Our topic is
about steadfastness in this really fast changing world.
And that is the difficulty today. The world is changing so fast. It
throws things at us left, right and center, not just ideologies. I
mean, we're talking about materialism right now in terms of
consuming what we have to consume. But in terms of ideologies, many
of us don't even know where these ideologies are coming from. We're
talking about post modernism, post industrialization, psychoanalysis
of feminism, we're talking about post modernity. This is the kind
of thing most of us don't even know where the big attacks against
Islam are coming and what their basis is, we don't even know how
to deal with it. This is what we're dealing with today on many
different levels, from the ideological belief, theological
level, to the consumer level of buying things and consuming things
and using things in our life. So what do we need to do? What do we
need to do? How do we deal how do we deal with this? How do we stay
steadfast and still remain connected to Allah subhanho wa
Taala that's the biggest challenge we have today. So
is life think about it is our life to be honest
is our life any more than every now and then having to update our
gadgets, our wardrobes, our clothing, our cars and our
appliances at home?
Is our life any bigger than that? Is it any more than that? Aren't
we consumed in this? This is the way of life, things become old,
then you have to go and buy a new one. You have to research what you
want. You have to read reviews, you have to buy the right thing.
So much time is taken in these things. Our lives have become like
what they call the
the animal that goes around the mill, the original grinding mill.
And that's exactly what even Arthur Illa al Eskandari mentions
that do not be like the Raha the animal of the Raha
the camel, or whichever animal you're using that goes around its
ending place is its starting place, but it thinks that it's
just made a journey. And this is our day in and day out. This is
what's becoming of our life. Even those who are religious among us
think we're religious dress in a particular way, make our salad.
But when it comes to refining our deen, have we refined it? Is our
salad better than it was before? Are we avoiding more sins than we
used to do before? Or is it just becoming a bigger problem? That is
the question. Those are the questions that we need to ask
ourself, those are the questions that we need to ask ourselves, the
only way we can stay balanced in this world. And the only way we
can take our heads out of this bubble that we've got an hour
we're in, we're in all of us. The only way is to remember our death.
Death is the only thing that will remind us of what is the reality
of this life. And where we're really going. This is sometimes
you wake up on that weird day, you've had a bad dream, and you
wake up and suddenly mortality hits you, you suddenly realize you
know what, I'm gonna die one day, death is real. And as long as
we're submerged in this, it makes us forget death, because there's
certain enjoyment, there's a false sense of fulfillment, there's a
false sense of fulfillment in what we're doing. So then it makes us
forget what we're really here for what Allah subhanho wa Taala wants
us to do, and to work for that. And those who are religious
amongst us, those who attend Bionz, et cetera, were sometimes
deluding ourselves by attending a few Beyonc by by making our salad
only but not refining our deen and not becoming closer to Allah
subhanaw taala the only gauged for this is how much closer are we to
Allah subhanaw taala if were to die, where and how, what kind of
face will we show to Allah subhanaw taala that is the
question that we must be asking ourselves, life is too short, life
will end time is flying time is extremely contracted these days.
There is nothing that we can do. Everything that we do suddenly
Subhanallah we've come to a time now. You see our grandparents I
would say the first generation that made it to this country when
I speak about the Indian subcontinent, India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, you know, because they are the they have the highest
representation in the Muslim community in the UK. When they
came here, they struggled. They lived many to a room, they shared
a house, they shared baths, they shed many things like that they
struggled. And in fact in some of them, we would laugh at them. They
would save money and they would not spend it on themselves. They
would use the oldest of their garments, oldest of suitcases,
etc. And they would not spend money would say you're being
conduce you're being miserly, you're being stingy. But they'd
seen hard days. They don't have the ability to spend on themselves
and who they're going to leave their money for. You know, Allah
says they're going to leave it for their children. And our money is
only that which we spend. Our money is only that as Hasson bossy
Rahim Allah said that your money is only what you spend, spend on
yourself and eat, you used it spend in the path of Allah
subhanaw taala and invested, then you use it any money that you've
kept around, that is not spent, it becomes somebody else's as the
Hadith mentions, somebody says on their deathbed that my money is so
and so I should do this with I should do this to get it Gazzara
LIFO learn and it's also big, it's already become it's already gone
into the ownership of your inheritors at the deathbed. It
goes into the in, in ownership of the inheritance.
Now I'm not here to condemn money, let's not get me wrong. I'm not
here to condemn money. I'm not here to say let's throw everything
away and let's do that because we're living in a world where that
would be extremely difficult. We're living in a world and a time
where that would be extremely difficult. So there are many
approaches to the deen and reaching Allah subhanaw taala. And
if you this topic is not about this is not about the sofa and
Sufism but the sofa and Sufism is
is very much part of our life. It's intrinsic. It's just part of
the life of any Muslim.
Many of the for example, if you look at the next one, this they
have this idea that you work in the world with whatever you have,
but your heart remains connected to Allah subhanaw taala what they
saw and this is the way different Sufi today because this is the way
they have tried to deal with the challenges of the world, connect
people to Allah subhanho wa Taala in a way that's possible. One is
the Abuja Radi Allahu Anhu style, which is to just drop everything,
not even keep anything for tomorrow and live totally on the
bare essentials, which even the other Sahaba could not do. And
that's why Buddha the Allahu Anhu was politely requested by Earthman
or the Allahu Anhu to move to a different place and thus he stayed
in the Raba outside of Madina Munawwara because his fatwa, which
he had understood from Rasulullah sallallahu sallam was that nobody
is allowed to keep anything beyond today's needs, not even anything
for tomorrow. However, if you look at the Sahaba let me explain
something very important for you know, the US have a suffer.
That's how we suffer with the poorest of the poor. These people
had absolutely nothing Abu Huraira the Allahu Anhu you know, his
story that the Redeemer generally mentioned in Hadith, that
sometimes he had absolutely nothing to eat. So he would lie
down in the path as people would pass so they would have some
compassion on him and maybe invite him home for food. I think that
you know, they would place their head, their feet on his neck
because they thought that he was suffering from a type of sickness
or an illness or something. That's how poor they were. They didn't
have enough clothing to cover themselves. They had this was this
was the case with them. However,
you know, the hierarchy of the Sahaba you know, the four Sahaba
the four hula, they're the highest of the high after a Zulu Allah
salAllahu Salam o Bukhari the Allahu an aroma or the Allahu
Akbar with Myrna the Allah Allah to the Allah one, these are the
four the highest in terms of the hierarchy after them come the
remaining mashallah, mashallah the 10 given the glad tidings of
gender.
Now, if you look at the 10 after that come to people a bother and
so on and so forth. But if you look at the 10 Do you see any US
harbor suffer in there?
None of the US have a sofa in there. This is not to denigrate
the position of the US have a sofa. This is to show us something
else because this relates to ours. Our situation today. What I'm
speaking about is if you look at the top 10 out of them, there were
at least four that were multimillionaires at the time. And
when I say millionaires, I don't mean that you know when somebody
asks for sadaqa so the guy gives 2000 pounds or 20,000 pounds or
50,000 pounds. How much is the biggest donated today gonna give
us
right the biggest businessman in town is going to give us 10,015 20
cars there has Santa, right we gives you 20,030 40,000 We're
talking about earthborn are the Allahu Anhu equipping an entire
army with camels and their supplies and each camel today cost
about eight to 900 pounds or 1000 pounds. So imagine in those days,
so much so much that the prophets of the Lord Assam had to say that
to Allah he's proven himself. He is guaranteed he can do whatever
he wishes now he is going into Jana.
But with Amanda the Allahu Allah was not the only one. There were
three other multimillionaires one does anybody know who else was a
multimillionaire within national Moshe
Abdul Rahman have mouth another one
another one Zubaydah Bulava, he had a palace in Medina I think it
still exists
as debatable our numerous children at the likeness Zubaydah oh boy,
even this debate and many many other children and he was
extremely wealthy, extremely wealthy. Abdul Rahman is now off
and and
as available an hour and also told her even Obaidullah, very wealthy
individuals. Once I shudder the Allahu Allah is sitting in Madina
Munawwara and she's he is a major commotion so loud as if an army
it's just coming in.
What's going on? Oh, this is the trade caravan of Abdurrahman now
coming back into town. So can you imagine what we're speaking about?
He had his own crave at a trade caravan. And each of his wives
were multimillionaires. That what he left to them and a wife only
gets a wife or wives if a person has multiple wives no
encouragement. I know it's a sunnah but I'm not encouraging it.
Right? If a person has one wife she gets and he has children. How
much does the wife receive from his inheritance?
One 1/8 He doesn't have children. She gets
one quarter mashallah, you know that much. But if he has four
wives, they have to share in that 1/8 or one quarter
Now you can understand why women don't want another Coway. Now,
that's not the reason believe me that's not the reason that's not
the reason they'll say take my inheritance view and don't have
another wife. It's a natural jealousy which Allah subhanaw
taala has placed in them. And it's actually the Allah one as soon as
she did it as well. So don't, you know, don't complain about it too
much.
So, if each one of them was to share from one eight, and they
still became multimillionaires themselves after his death, and
can you imagine what kind of wealth that he had? But the
question is this, where did this wealth take him today? Today in
our communities, people have money, people are settled, and
people have dispensable disposable income. We can go out there and
buy what we want. We wearing the clothes that we want, how many of
you are sitting here and not wearing what they like to wear,
where they've had to wear a hand on where they've had to go to a
thrift store or a secondhand store or, you know, to Oxfam or
something like that and had to buy something Subhan Allah Allah has
blessed us immensely. And we are thankful to that and we need to be
thankful for that. But what we're dealing with is the fitna of
prosperity. This is called the fitna to Sahra, the fitna of
prosperity when things open up in front of you, when things are at
your disposal. When you can buy every next phone that comes out
and it won't dent your pocket too much. You can get what you want
next, and there's a desire to do it to make sure you have the next
phone. This is what it is. It's our life has become the updating
of our gadgets. As soon as they come. It's updating our gadgets.
That's what our life has become fitna of prosperity. How do we
deal with that today?
It's a different type of fitna, the poor person undergoes a
different type of fitna, and the rich person undergoes a different
type of fitna, and this is exactly and we have great lessons to learn
from earthern or the Allah one. And from Abdurrahman mouth, and
it's debatable awam did the world effect them? Did the world affect
them? Despite having all the world did the world effect them? If you
look at Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he chose
voluntary poverty. There was he chose he his dua to Allah subhana
wa Tada was ALLAH who mashallah Nafees Zimbra, tilma, SALKIN of
Allah gather them gather us on the Day of Judgment with the Moroccan
with the destitute people with the with the destitute, the Prophet
sallallahu some kept his life Subhan Allah Subhanallah, this is,
I don't think anybody else can do this. He kept his life in Madina
Munawwara at a level where the poorest of the inhabitants of
Medina could relate to him. And think my prophet has the same that
I do, he eats the same that I do. In fact, I sometimes maybe eat
better than my prophet. That is the way he kept himself. And this
wasn't because he didn't have 1000s Millions would go through
his hands. But this is what he this is what he chose to do. This
was voluntary. That's why there are Hadith in the Shemitah, etc.
About him purchasing expensive garments, maybe even wearing it
once, but then giving it away to enjoying good food when it came to
him. But then in his own house, chose to not like the fire for
such a long time. And to just deal with dates and water. That's very
far from us. That's very far for us. So we're not saying go there.
That's why many of the Sufi three because the whole aspect of hdwd
and revival is that they deal with you according to the time to
connect people to Allah subhanho wa taala. So for example, you have
the tea Johnny's, which is a very famous African very powerful
African Teresa, North Africa, we're talking about Morocco and
much of West Africa as well, Senegal, Gambia, etc.
Shaker tea Gianni one of his one of his main very interesting
statements is manlam yet Holmium Barbie Shoukry la mia con, anybody
who is not going to enter the court of Allah subhanho wa Taala
closest to Allah subhanho wa Taala the path through the door of
thankfulness, he's not going to enter. So their whole concept is
be thankful to Allah. And if you're thankful to Allah and you
realize what you're getting where you're getting it from, and you
think the true provider of it, then Allah subhanho wa Taala you
will reach Allah subhanaw taala because think about this, one of
Hassan Busey Rahmatullah Ania one of his daughters is, Oh Allah, I
seek forgiveness for every sin that I committed by the wealth
that you gave me. How bad is that? Subhan Allah. Allah gives us
wealth, and we use that same wealth to pay for haram. To buy
haram, by haram enjoyment, spend on haram, given haram. Take a trip
that's haram. It's the same wealth that Allah gave us. It's the same
health that Allah has given us same ability that Allah
has given us and we use it to oppress others. We use it to show
off over others we use it to humiliate others And subhanAllah
this is what we're doing. Oh Allah forgive us of such since this is
Hassan Busey is very deep, very profound to our that this is one
of the big problems that we're dealing with today. Allah gives us
wealth, and we use it the same well for the haram. What kind of
questions are we going to? How are we going to answer the questions
on the Day of Judgment? When every question will be asked? The
question will be asked that. Where did you spend your your life where
you spent your youth where you spent the money that Allah gave
you? And if we can't have sugar, sugar, is that you? Sugar? Let's
just Let's just imagine this. You got a young child, one of our
children and one of the Auntie's comes to visit sometimes the
children want to play they don't want to see their Auntie Don to
always bring some nice gift for them. A little toy or something
little Lego set or something or the other. Now what he does he
comes grabs the Lego set doesn't say doesn't say JazakAllah doesn't
give her a hug or anything and walks off. Now once he does that,
the auntie is going to think jello, but you're here you know,
he's a kid, right? Does that three times he's growing up and he's
still doing that? What is the auntie is going to stop buying him
something anything yet another chakra? You know, what kind of
ungrateful individual is this? Not Allah subhanaw taala. Of course,
he has more clemency and more filled barons than any Auntie in
this world. Subhan Allah Subhan Allah and that's, that is why
we're deluded. That is exactly what happened was Tierra de la de
says, oh, Allah committed a sin. And then because of your axon,
because of your covering your Saturday, your Setar your beat
your covering over me. I became deluded and I did it again. This
is this does nothing describes us more than this. We do something
wrong, we feel guilty, but then nothing happens. Nobody finds out.
We don't become humiliated. Our wealth still continues. We still
continue to enjoy, and we suddenly think Allah has forgiven us. But
no, is this st. Raj? Is this just Allah subhanaw taala giving us
some more time? What is this situation? That's why every one of
Hassan bossy, Rathalos 70 is still far they're extremely profound.
They get to the core of the human being, and this is our situation.
So eventually, the auntie is going to think why should I bring
anything for this child? The next time she comes, the child is going
to be looking forward to her visit. He doesn't want to visit
her IQ on color. Color coding is a typical thing. Nobody wants to
visit their relatives anymore. We have to go color color. Come on,
man, you know, we have to go and visit our relatives SubhanAllah.
People don't get that by visiting your relatives you're given Baraka
in your wealth. That's what it is. Whoever ties the knots of kinship.
You get Baraka in your wealth. Scylla to ram that's what you call
it. You get Baraka in your life. That could be qualitative. It
could be quantitative.
But these are the things that we're missing out by which we lose
out Subhanallah we lose out. We have so much disunity amongst us
because we don't observe certain things and we don't pay heed to
what Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said, the Prophet sallallahu
sallam said straight in euros in Salat. Otherwise Allah will place
discord between your hearts. Now we think that's just some kind of
warning, but Subhan Allah cycle cardiology has actually proven
that when hearts are in sync, when hearts hearts are in a straight
line, they will actually be synced. And if they're not,
there's actually there's actually research done on the way hearts
effect each other SubhanAllah. You know, we talk about a
messiah is giving the word Jew and outpouring and being able to
positively influence someone we have a question about that. Does
anybody deny align? Does anybody deny what you call the evil eye?
Does anybody deny that? You know, when some child starts acting
weird, somebody says that he has the evil eye nuzzle again. And
then you pray everything that's in the Hadith. So if somebody can
negatively influence you like that, why can't they positively
influence you as well?
You know, what's, what's the problem with that? The prophets,
Allah, some doesn't have to spell everything out for us. You know,
he does leave things to the OMA to understand Subhan Allah and has an
effect on that. So this, this child will still be waiting for
his auntie when she comes. But now the next time the auntie came, she
didn't bring him anything.
with Allah subhanaw taala it's different Subhanallah it's
different. We're going to be questioned for everything that we
do.
So we need to start making changes in our life.
We need to start understanding what we're to do if our life is
continuing, and now we were 20 last so many years ago, and now
we're 30 and we're moving on. Now. We're 40 Imam Ghazali mentioned
that anybody who reaches the age of 40 and his
Good and virtue does not overcome his evil, then he has less chance
afterwards. And believe me, that gave me a spiritual crisis.
Because when you listen to that, and when you hear that, and you
ponder over that, and you look at your life, you think I'm getting
to the age of 40, I'm, I'm 40. I'm around 40 And subhanAllah, that
says, age of maturity, people become prophets at this age. So if
you can't become good at this age, then what?
Then there's less chance afterwards. But you can't expect
to change at the age of 39, I'm going to have a good time until 39
and a half, then I got six months to change doesn't work like that
life, everything follows one thing to the next influences the next
action, you build it up. So if you've set it in the right course,
then it's going to go in the right course.
Good begets more good. Evil begets more evil. That's just the nature
of the world, we become influenced by these things. So what is
stopping our steadfastness in this world, is mass consumerism. And
I'm not saying have the nicest thing, that's fine. But don't let
it consume you, if you have all of that, but then the good is not
because the Hadith mentions that if you see that more prosperity is
coming in your life. So good things are happening for you.
Mashallah, you got married to a nice person or you Allah gave you
a good spouse,
you got a good job, you just bought a nice car, and all of
these things are happening. But you see that I'm not really
getting closer to the dean than this is a delusion.
Do not think that more prosperity in our life means that Allah loves
us. You know, when people give us give us gifts, then it's generally
a sign of them having a connection with us. Promise Allah some said,
so the her due to her boo, give gifts, and it will create mutual
love between you. So when people come and give us gifts, then why
is he giving me gifts unless he has an ulterior motive? Generally,
it's because they have an association with us. But do not
become deluded with that when it comes to the dunya if we're
getting more, and we're able to get what we want, but we're not at
the same time our equation in terms of our connection with Allah
subhanaw taala is also not moving in the same way than understand
that this is a delusion, we need to be concerned about it.
So steadfastness is extremely difficult. I don't even want to
mention to you what their own Amma have how they've defined
steadfastness. And each of them have defined it differently.
steadfastness is to be on that middle path is like being on the
bridge, they say. It's like being over the causeway over jahannam.
The pulsera as they call it, right, the double word that people
use, you know, the causeway over jahannam. It's like being on
there. That's how difficult it is in this world. But the but the
beautiful thing is that anybody who's able to withstand the forces
and influences the attractions and adornments of the dunya and stay
steadfast as possible, then that is how they will also go over the
bridge on the Day of Judgment.
That that's basically the the equation of this world into the
next world of this. So one of our challenges through our clothing
and our fashion.
Boys and girls, men and women the same thing. When people go for
Hajj and people go for Amara. I say give them a list. You're
wondering why should we give them a list? You should give people who
go for Ramadan Hajj, give them a list. When I went for Hajj this
year, I got my wife to give me a list. I got my son and my daughter
to give me a list a list of doors to make
because you know people you tell people please make dua for me,
someone's going to do imma let you know remember in your DUA, I mean,
they don't always remember Subhanallah they don't always
remember what I found to be extremely effective is that I had
these lists. So in the special places in Arafa, in front of the
caribou and I got to the you know the,
the
special places that you can make dua and I pulled out that list in
on your phone and you just read out there to ask for them
Subhanallah we do give lists but our list is Brent bring me five
Christian Dior he jobs
Cartier ones and the men are not behind in the Subhanallah they
also into you know you get the Arab shawls. I went into one shop
and they have Kenzo shawls now Kenzo would you call them Charles
socials, Kenzo Gucci, I'm sure they originally saw this in the
Emirates So men are into this kind of stuff the same as the we always
blame the women for it. And they've got a right actually to be
adorned. Allah says it in the Quran Allah acknowledges it in the
Quran, LMA Yonah shekou Phil Hillier, Teva Hua, Phil Hasani
Lido Mubin
O Rama Yuna show Phil Hillier, those who have been brought up
read and nurtured
In adornment, but they cannot articulate themselves well.
Right. That's why they can't articulate not that's why they
can't articulate themselves, they weaken their articulation, in
terms of arguments and so on. They can be loud. Yes, but sometimes we
can argument and not all women are like that. But this is what Allah
subhanaw taala mentions in the Quran. Some are like them, they've
got an excuse. Allah adornment is for women, it's there. There's an
acknowledgment to that, that doesn't get justified even for
women, it's better for them, to not have the love for it, to use
it. It's their adornment for their men, they have a valid reason for
it. And that's why you have the stories of these pious women they
would do themselves up, spend time decorating, making themselves up,
present themselves in front of their spouses, and their spouses.
I have no need for today, take it all off and go on standing
tahajjud
these were some of the women we had in the past, fulfilling the
rights of their husband, not Dr. Mahajan not dry, but understanding
the responsibility of the husband but yet also understand the
responsibility of Allah subhanaw taala go to an effort to do this
for their husband. There's a very beautiful story that's related
from Ramallah, the Allah one.
A case came in front of him of a woman. I'm just sidetracking a
case came in front of him of a woman. She She came up and she in
poem, she says that my husband, he is so pious, he's so righteous, He
stands all night in prayer, he has no time for anybody else and so on
and so forth. So I'm gonna do Ellen said, mashallah, that's
beautiful. That's very good. You're praising your husband like
that. That's beautiful. That's very good. She says it again.
And then what to do instead. Mashallah, that's wonderful. Such
a great husband, you've got he's spending all this time all this
time at night, praying and so on. So there's another
I think it's a tabby sitting there. And he said to her, I'm
gonna be alone. That's not what she means.
Is what she means is complaining about her husband.
So, okay, call her Husband, husband came. And he responded in
poetry as well. I don't remember the poems right now. He responded
in poetry. And he said,
Yes, what has made me what has made me negligent of my bed is the
love for tahajjud and the standing in front of Allah and the long the
arm and it's made me totally, you know,
heedless of my, you know, wife, and this, that and the other and
whatever, and so on and so forth. So I'm one of the Allahu anhu, who
then said to him, said to the, his associate, is that look, you're
the one who understood his the problem. So now I want you to give
the solution. So the solution he gave, he said, Okay, I give you
permission, that
for three nights, you're allowed to worship but every fourth night
you have to be with this wife.
So I'm going to demonstrate where did you come up with that decision
from? Yeah, because the heart but they were always concerned about
it wasn't out of their pocket, because they say it had to be
based on something. And this is what you call fucka, to knifes,
you know, a juristic insight to be able to come up with a solution to
problems based on the dean and the shear. So he said, Look, what it
is, is that is a man is allowed to have four wives in the Sharia,
right, he's allowed in the Quran.
So if he did have three other wives as many other men do in that
time, then she would have only had one night out of those four
anyway. So he's sacrificed his right to have another wife for the
sake of Allah subhanaw taala so fine, let him spend three nights
with Allah subhanaw taala. And one night, he has to spend with her
but at least one night that was an achievement for the woman It was
an achievement. Subhanallah she got what she wanted. But
that
where did I digress from? I told you I was digressing. Where was i
i was talking about steadfastness. So the clothing is our biggest
problem. And fashion, technology and new gadgets is another
problem. And and you know, when I talk about new gadgets, I'm not
talking about just having them there's an additional layer to
that, which many of us are concerned about Subhanallah
there's a very dignified individual in the community where
I was Imam, a very dignified individual, like a sensible, you
know, very decent kind of man. He comes up to me one day, and he
said, Surely there's a problem. And I said, What's the problem? He
said, This WhatsApp is a fitna. I
mean, what do you mean? He said the wives she just can't stay off
it cooking and it's on the right cooking and she's on WhatsApp.
Right that's where you probably get metal salt or less salt or
something like that. Or more masala. Anyway, in bed everywhere.
It's just becoming too much like It's like she's married to this
thing.
And I
I was thinking SubhanAllah. For me, it was like, in the time of
the sahaba. I mentioned to your story of a turban in with Amara,
the Allah one, but two Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, it was
the women who would come and complain about their husbands that
they had no time for them. Right? The husbands had no time for the
wives, because they were fasting and praying all night fasting all
day and praying all night. So the prophets, Allah son told them,
Look, you know, he gave them that. Now we've got husbands complaining
of their wives not giving attention to their husband,
because they're on WhatsApp.
Now, don't think for a minute that this is only a problem, I'm only
only a problem with the women, it's a problem with the men as
well. In fact, the problem we have with the phone is this, I'll tell
you and I have the same problem. So I know this from experience. So
I put my phone on right now. And this is just so if I handle I
don't keep my data on all day, right? It saves my battery and I
get 24 hours or more on battery Alhamdulillah. Anybody who
complains about less than 24 hour battery, it's your consumption,
don't blame the phone. What do you expect the phone to do? You know,
you're on there, like every minute, and you want it to last a
day. You know, so if I put that on, I know that if I'm on for
whatsapp groups, and believe me if I say I don't want to be on a
grid, these are all religious groups. I'm not in any kind of
social groups, these are all religious groups, and they put me
on there somehow, right. And they are kind of interesting, you do
learn something, but you do have to trudge through a lot, right to
learn something, sometimes.
Every group will have at least 20 messages an hour. And within a
day, you'd have a few 100 on each group. Can you imagine what kind
of brain you're using on that every day, even to sift through
it? It's a brain drain, there's research on that about emails,
this is worse than email.
Because this is instant, and everybody's doing it, and it's
free. So take the benefit. Right? When WhatsApp came out, it was
just like, take the benefit, nobody uses text anymore. And so
that's why people can't get me generally early enough, because I
only check it every few hours, a text message I get but not
WhatsApp.
So then there's WhatsApp. Suddenly, I see a notification at
the top. And I don't have Facebook, but you will see a
notification Facebook, you pull that down and you check, you start
checking your Facebook, and SubhanAllah. That's another story
on its own, I just haven't been able to deal with Facebook. So I
don't know how it really works as much.
So you check in this year, and suddenly you see a Twitter.
And you you forget what you're looking at here and you go on to
Twitter now. And you start looking at that and then suddenly got
another WhatsApp message. So you've seen half of your Twitter
messages, and you're following 50 people, so they're all talking
mashallah, right?
So I feel really bad. A lot of people follow me, but I don't
follow them. And I feel really bad about that, you know, they think
what's selfish kind of guy is he, because I only follow like 12
people on a dream sub, and a few others, right? Because I can't go
through all those messages you have, the more people you follow,
the more message you're gonna have to go through. Right? So how do
you go through 200 people that you follow?
Where's our life going? What are we doing? What's substantial in
that? What production are we doing? What are we giving to the
dunya? What are we giving to others? What are we giving to our
deen?
And you know, even if they're religious groups, how much benefit
is there? And I'm saying all of this just for us to reflect I know
that people are not going to go and stop all of this straightaway.
Or ever if that if we're ever to do that. And I don't expect that
to happen. I'm not one of those who say Facebook is haram. Yes, it
has a lot of haram things on it, just like many other things in the
world. But there's also good out of it. There's also good that can
come from it. But I You You're each individual person's
interaction with these things need to be there. So we this is just
for us to sit and think about because at the end of the day,
what are we doing for Allah? subhanaw taala? That's the
question, how are we going to get steadfastness so then that's our
technology, and that's our new gadgets.
And then confirming to certain conforming to certain trends.
Right? Generally, if you're kind of on the religious side, you're
generally going to avoid that kind of thing. But then the another one
is watching certain movies, and he certain new movie that comes out
people have to watch it. Because if you haven't, then it just looks
like you're out of date. Have you seen The Lego Movie? Do you know?
That's a question that you know, it came up recently? How can
people sit and suspend all realisation of reality? Suspend
that and go into an artificial world and watch characters that
are going around as though they're real? We know they're not real,
but yet we can still empathize with them. So if there's a sad
scene, you will feel the sorrow in your heart.
But it's only cars. You know, the Cars movie. What is that? What's
that car called the red one?
That What's that red one called?
Sorry. There you go. Lionel McQueen. That kid was just like, I
won't lie on McQueen Lanham. Okay. What is line on McQueen? Right?
At least somebody knows. When the bolton car media was added.
So you got cars, you got Lego we know it's it's thinking but adults
will enjoy these things. We have become artificial in our life. And
there's actually somebody told me there's actually a movie that
talks about reality.
There's a film that talks about what reality is, it's about
somebody going into somebody's dreams or something like that. I
don't know what it's called. And that time I was sitting next to
somebody in a plane. And he was saying, this is a very good movie,
because this is actually a kosher movie, in the sense that it's
teaches you where, what is the whole debate about reality,
because we are in an artificial world today. We live in an
artificial world, even if we think we're religious, we live in a
dream.
We're in a bubble. And the only time this bubble is gonna burst,
and we're gonna get to reality is when you start realizing what our
death is, when mortality hits you, when you see that you could have
died. That's when your life changes. You start thinking, you
know, as I was saying, right, in the beginning, you wake up one
morning miserable, but you start having some real questions about
your life. And you know, this whole concept of midlife crisis,
this age of 35 to 40. What many people do that don't have Hola.
That's when they turn to doing adventurous things like buying a
Harley Davidson, biking or something of that nature, because
they think that they've wasted or they divorce their wife, or the
wife divorces the husband, find somebody else, they want some kind
of adventure, because that's the time of life. When people think
that have I got anything out of my life or not. So then they make
these decisions in their life to try to make it more productive.
This is what we need to use. That's where Imam Hassan is
saying, this is exactly what he's speaking about, that he is
addressing the people who are at this mid life state, that look,
this is what you need to focus on. And you know, one thing I do have
to say is that generally in our communities, which is the baraka
of our cabin, and our great elders who have just mashallah, we cannot
thank them enough. We cannot thank them enough. They lived in another
time and place, the realities here were totally different to those
realities, but the spirituality that they've given us Subhanallah
what are the words that come from old women today? Allah kwena
Mataji nibbana.
Right, Hatha Marblehead. Allah give us the kalam on our death.
This becomes their repetitive, ongoing dua, and the men they
start retiring to the masjid. But not all men are able to do that.
And not all when women speak that way. How do we know that we're
going to have a good ending or not? That's the question. We need
to ask ourselves, what you call her personal hurt him, and Sue
will hurt him. That's the question to ask ourselves. So these are the
things that we're dealing with watching certain movies, and so on
and so forth. And number five, one of the biggest challenges that the
guys have, and even the women have to a great degree, but the guys
have it more because it's a bigger fitna for them, which is desire
shower, haram, watching the Haram looking at the Haram touching the
Haram speaking, the Haram speaking with the hara, what or however you
want to define it. It's a big problem that we have some massive
problem. Today one of the biggest problems that the Muslim community
internationally is facing
individuals, wives are complaining big time wives have women are
generally less represented in this problem than men are. So the
question, you guys give me a ticket, or I heard today was a non
ticket day, you can go on all night. That's what Idris told me.
So
when you're joking, your food is gonna get cold. So
we have a big problem. It's not something you have to even go out
for. It's something that can be done from the comfort of your own
houses of your own rooms. It can be done from the comfort of your
own bed with the wife sleeping next door to you. And it is
literally breaking families. It is messing up individuals. People are
depressed but they're still doing it. They want to kill themselves.
They don't know what the problem is. They feel extremely dirty
afterwards. They feel bad afterwards, but they still do it.
Do you know the problem I'm talking about?
You know the problem talking about it's a massive problem.
TV is nothing.
What's TV. I don't mean to say it's Hello
I just mean to say comparatively, when I say yeah, move this up now
or move to sobriety or TV or HELOC.
People love that was they people in you should see how people
interpret a speech afterwards. It's very interesting. You'd have
50 different ideas that the speaker didn't even speak about.
Once Obama, right, you know, he was going past somewhere, and
somebody was commenting on why Obama had given a particular sign
off on it. And it's like, I didn't even know that myself. So people
give comments, commentators, this is what people do. Anyway, the
problem we're talking about is * of *. It's a
massive problem. It's a massive problem, and people don't know how
to get out of it. The problem with the problem is that you don't know
how to get out of it. Once you're in it, it is such a difficult
thing to get out of people are struggling, they're looking for
help. They stay away for a week or two weeks, and then it gets back.
It's one of those things that just you have to go back and he just
has to become worse. And people, then it goes into really, really
bad levels. And the only way out of this, the only way out of this
is to connect yourself with Allah and give Allah a place in your
heart. But it's not easy to do that. That's why that is difficult
as well. The way to do it is to start doing vicar, especially
under an oath, reliable shake. Right? Especially, and to get
Allah stronger in our hearts. So that when Allah permeates our
heart, the light permeates our hearts, then we are able to then
stop it out of the love for Allah subhanaw taala
you can give them the fear of your parents, you can give them fear of
everything, you can overcome all of that. The only way that it will
work is if you work hard for a few months, by subduing that desire by
just trying to do as much vicar as possible with a shake, you will
then notice that your your love for Allah subhanaw taala will grow
and then you will not want Allah to see you in that position with
anybody else. They're not watching me my wife is not watching me
right now. She is going to be out for two hours. Yes, go shopping.
Right Is that kind of a situation?
It's a massive problem that is breaking families destroying the
OMA in many places. This is another thing that's a massive
problem. It's a massive problem. Now the thing is that on a lower
level, our gazes fall on things and there's a hadith in Bukhari
about that relate to Abu Ferreira, the Allahu anhu, he speaks about
lamium as Allah subhanaw taala speaks about the word Lemlem in
the Quran. lamium is the accidental look, the accidental
touch the accidental statement that is kind of sexually charged,
maybe, but you say it accidentally you look at something
accidentally, and that's forgiven. So if you do see something, and
sometimes it's very difficult in the summer, you're looking up a
look down, you still see things once I turned around, and I saw
the reflection, you can avoid it. A friend of mine went to Jamaat to
one of the European countries, where apparently it's worse than
here. And he says that the because that oblique work isn't so strong
in that area. The women had to stay in a house on the other edge
of town. And they were the guys were on in a masjid on this edge
of town. So they had to constantly go in this in the underground. And
he said, up, down, left right down doesn't make a difference. So we
had to use a newspaper, and then you have to choose which page
right to make sure you don't see all of that. Now that's difficult.
You know we're dealing with this day in and day out.
The guys have their fitna the women have their own fitness. We
have all different fitness. This is the world steadfastness is what
we're trying to get. There's one story I want to relate before I
finish. Selenium Soleimani Abdul Malik was one of the great reliefs
of the American empire. So they made him the medic, one of the
sons of Abdul Malik Abdul Marwan, and relatively speaking, he was
considered to be better off than some of his other brothers. He was
the one who actually
when he was about to die, his children were not old enough. And
he wanted one of his children to become the next leaf, but they
weren't old enough. So he got them and tried to put long clothes on
them to make them look old enough to people who would accept but it
didn't work out. So one of his advisors said you got your cousin
who's sitting in Madina, Munawwara Omar Ibn Abdul Aziz now until that
time, I'm gonna Magdala Aziz was
the governor of Madina, Munawwara very indulgent himself to a
certain degree as well.
Now this was a stroke of great Deke read from Allah subhanho
Everything studied but this is was extraordinary says, Okay, fine,
you know, we'll give it to our cousin. So I'm gonna have an
Abdulazeez was brought and he totally changed afterwards.
Anyway, so they might even Abdulmalik once in his in his
palace, he had a young youth who was, had a youth who was a Muslim,
he had him for a run, and to tell him what time Salah was to bring
in, or to remind him of Salah time. It's quite a good post. And
you know, for the khalifa to have that that's quite amazing
SubhanAllah. So although those cleaves, you know, they're known
for a lot of aggression sometimes and so on and indulgence. But
there were some very good qualities about them as well,
there was a level
now, so they might even I didn't medic also had this slave girl,
very beautiful slave girl, ignore it, but relates this in his shot
of a see the Buddha. So he says that she used to notice them or
other than looking at her.
Right now you're like saying what's new, you know, that's that
she's a very beautiful girl. And he's looking at her. So she
complained to Saddam and even had the medic. So they might have
named him when he was a very jealous, possessive individual. So
he got very angry says,
I kill him looking at, you know, my slave girl, I'm gonna kill him.
But then you can't just go and kill somebody like that you have
to make an excuse you set them up. So he said to her, Look, I want
you go get dressed up, adorn yourself perfume yourself, and go
and present yourself in front of him and say, do you have to do
that she did all of that. She went up to the mother in this youth and
said, Look, you know, I've noticed you it's not hidden, what you that
you've been looking at me and I have the same kind of feeling
towards you that you have towards me. So this is a really good time.
The Khalifa is not him. He's sleeping. So you know, we have
time right now. Now this individual, he said at the end of
the day, he used to do again, he said, You know what? Come back
tomorrow.
Come back tomorrow. It's a very clever answer. And you can tell
that it's a very interesting answer. He's not saying no, he's
not saying yes, I don't want to comment on him. But this is. So
then she came back. And Abdul Malik. Number one is sorry,
Solomon, Abdul Malik is very,
he can't wait until tomorrow. He wants to do it today. He wants to
sort this matter out today says, No, go and tell him that we've
only got there's no better time than this. This is the only
opportunity we have. So she goes back. And she says, Look, this is
the only opportunity we have this the best time as any time. And you
know, we're not going to get a chance afterwards. You know, this
is what it is. So then he responds, he says, To be honest,
he says, I'd like you to just go away from me now. And I don't want
to ever have to approach this situation again. And I don't want
you to come and present yourself again. Because I don't want us to
be humiliated in front of him tomorrow. Allah subhana wa Tada.
Now, this struck the woman as well because she's in the middle of all
of this. So she's highly emotionally charged as well. Now
when you're in an emotionally charged situation, and somebody
hits you, right, it will affect you. So what he said really infant
effected her and she started weeping out of fear of Allah
subhanaw taala as well. So we don't want to be humiliated in
front of Allah subhanho wa Taala tomorrow, that was his final
response.
She comes back and she's crying I'm so Damon. Malik said, Well,
what's going on? Why are you why are you crying for he says well,
this is what he said. So now should a man even Abdulmalik
totally turns around changes and he's effected by this answer. So
what he does is he send somebody to them rather than here are
50,000 Durham's 50,000 dirhams, and the slave girl is free and for
you, and this money is for you to to now. Marry her halal.
Now you think Subhanallah bilkul Lau, this is the bureaucrats of
what I did.
This my husband was on a higher level.
He said the problem is that I've already made my deal with Allah
subhanaw taala
I've already made my deal with Allah. My deal was that
I'm sacrificing this for what Allah has for me in general. Now I
can't take it in any state.
These are the kinds of deals we need to make with Allah subhanaw
taala This is a high level of tobacco. This is a high level of
tobacco. But you can tell that he was caught on garden now Rama the
Allah and said afternoon Vickery
i in the last year
this small, superior form of vicar and remembrance is not when you
come into the masjid and that's where you're in the environment.
But it's when you're confronted with the ability to disobey.
When you're confronted with a sin, you can take it whoever remembers
Allah then that is the most superior thicker. That's the most
superior remember us if we fail each time, we don't know Allah
And look at this individual. He's more other than his. I mean, he's
a more than, but the effect Al Hamdulillah that had on him was
that he made this deal in his own mind with Allah.
And then Sulaiman Abdul Malik. He said he used to be totally wonder
struck by this is to mention the story over and over again. He was
always mentioned this ohana, look at this individual. And this is a
simple, you know, person who was who was there.
Allah has given us so much we have absolutely no right to be dis
ungrateful to Allah subhanho wa Taala absolutely no right to be
ungrateful to Allah subhana wa Tada. That's why our lives need to
change. The only way we'll get steadfastness is if we really
start thinking, minimizing these things. And you know what, the one
thing I didn't even speak about was the craze of another religion
that we follow. We follow it like a religion, which is football.
People overstate it, but there's a reality to it.
I was sitting in Masjid the number we want. And you know, people come
with bags to put their slippers in. And I saw the red devil in the
masjid. And I really thought to myself and I'm not having a go at
Manchester United Believe me, I'm not having a go. I don't I don't
support any other team that I'm putting one team down over the
next because I know people are gonna say he didn't say he's
probably supposed to Liverpool Arsenal or something like that.
Right? Because this is the way people speak and up north. You
guys are just doing it more than down south. People down south.
They're just too busy doing a lot of other crazy things. Right but
up north, you know, the only thing you got to do is football
Manchester United is right there next to Old Trafford Gujrati area.
I was just there this morning. That's why.
So
I was like, a devil in the masjid
the guide, it's, we don't even take that into consideration.
We don't even take it into consideration. One is supporting.
Look, let me get this right. One is somebody who's got a good set
of skills and you admire that I can see nothing wrong with that as
admiring skill
of fanatical following.
You know, give or take whatever happens. That's fanaticism. That's
what happens religion,
religions
it submerges you. And if anything submerges you as much as a
religion does,
then that becomes your religion. Think about it. intellectually.
There's a lot of stuff like this. There's a lot of research out
there about these things. Right? I'm not just saying haram haram
haram, I'm talking about think about things. You know, people
like to wear these loud things like big, Adidas and big this and
that. What they actually found was that these are not the higher
class of people that do this. This is the people in the slums who
want to have an identity. So they this is their identity. Do you
understand these are things to think about? Where are we going?
What are we doing? What are we adopting for ourself, that doesn't
mean that tomorrow you only wear Gucci or you only wear you know,
that's not what I'm saying. That's another fitting on a different
level.
But we have to deal with our children, we have to teach them
the modalities need to teach our children of what's right, and the
best way to extract ourselves from these things. Otherwise, they're
all a man, everybody have Subhanallah
fanatical about certain like football and things like that, and
cricket or whatever else it may be, I'm just giving us food for
thought. I have my own fitness. Everybody has their own fitness.
And we need to just think what face are we going to show? Allah
subhanaw taala tomorrow, and that is the most important thing. So we
need to improve ourselves. We need to bring in certain of God in our
daily life. We pray Salat, it's a font, what big deal are we doing?
We have to do it anyway. We're fasting during the month of
Ramadan big deal. Yes, it's better than those who don't fast. But
that's not what you're supposed to be looking at. When it comes to
the dean, you look at somebody better than you.
So we need to enter things into our life that are beyond that. And
subhanAllah these things make a big difference. I had one of my
teachers stay with me at home a few years ago from someone who
moved into herself.
And he says I'm a workaholic. So my problem is that you just need
to be producing work. That means nothing and everything is like
this is superior because you know all the money No, you know, one
masala is superior to what 1000 Now Phil, you know, we know all of
these are Hadith. So we think this is more important. But Subhanallah
Sheikh Mufti times, he said, You know, I've got a bobbin condition,
you should read our bin. Now you know, our Venus for extra rockets
after two rockets of sunnah. So six rockets after maghrib solid,
it says no rocket soon that you're going to pray anyway, add another
two and two and you'll see the benefits of it. Subhanallah we
generally think that we have to become pious to start doing that.
When we become pious when you become righteous.
Then we'll start doing our Bing, we'll start doing tahajjud we'll
start doing a Sherlock, you know actually works the other way
around. This is a deception to think of it this way. Think of it
the other way. If I start doing that I'll actually become more
pious first few times I have to do, it'll be more difficult for
me, but you will see that it will become easier. Alright, so start
doing a webbing simple six, for extra cuts, two and two extra
cards after maghrib. Right.
And you will see that because it's called Why is he called salatu wa
bien. It's called the Salat of the Awami. In our being means that
those who return to Allah, those who are always concerned about
Allah subhanaw taala, it will make you have those, it will help you
to turn to Allah subhanaw taala. It's four extra cards, not telling
you to read big swords in them read small. So let's just do those
four extra cards, and you will start seeing the benefit in your
life on something as simple as that the 100 is even more powerful
than that. And the women are here today, I want to mention to them
that because you don't have to worry about Jamaat in the masjid.
What I would suggest that you do from tonight is that many people
have this habit of waking up for Fudger at the end of its time just
to get further in quickly, and then go back to sleep. Because our
times in England don't allow for a very steady timetable throughout
the year because it's very volatile. What I would suggest you
do especially in winter, is Wake up 20 minutes to 30 minutes before
Fajr time begins. Whatever degrees you follow doesn't matter, right?
Go and wake up 15 to half an hour before Fajr time starts, due to a
forecast of tahajjud do will do etc. To forecasts of tahajjud five
minutes of Da Fajr time comes in, do your fajr prayer and then go to
sleep, you will get your Tajan Fajr in a very practical very easy
way. And and believe me I know of a number of women who started
doing this and then their husbands felt guilty and started doing
tahajjud as well.
Now are there any mustards here that have failed at the early
time? Or are they all in as far as the 100 meter?
None in the early time, there are good because they should be in
communities, they should be an early time Fisher for those who do
tagged you that night. So then, because they think you have to the
100 then have to wait another one hour or one hour, 15 minutes for
the 100 time of the muster hub and a photographer to come in. Right?
Then they feel like Oh, should I do that. And you know, and I'll
miss my Jamaat or whatever. So these are things that need to be
but there are sisters, this is my message for you. And for the
brothers and sisters of Warby
and of course you do touch it as well the bras not saying you guys
don't have to do the hygiene. But I know that if the women start
doing it, the men will have to follow because the men have to be
better, they think. But the one thing in which there is no
competition is the path to Allah subhanaw taala and one of the
great sheiks he said that I have seen women who are mothers who
have not much time, as much as youth with big turbans on
everything, I've seen them progress much faster, because of
the difficulty they have in bringing up their children. And if
they do it for the right reason, that actually takes them close to
Allah subhanaw taala as much as many hours of vicar that a man
will do. So women have Subhanallah they got great potential if they
realize it, it's all based on their intention. They have holiday
from prayer for 5789 10 days, if their intention is that oh,
mashallah charity, then that's it, you've just lost a lot of reward,
you're gonna get your tea anyway, whether you like it or not, you
can't pray in those days. But if your intention is that Subhanallah
This is Allah has made it like this. But I'm going to try to sit
at least in that time and do some Hizbul Azam, or read some two
hours or something of that nature, you will get the reward of the
prayer in those days as well. Allah has made it very easy like
that. May Allah subhanaw taala give us a trophy, but I can read
that one and he'll hamdulillahi rabbil aalameen.
It did say on the poster, that we were going to introduce a new
publication that we've just published recently. I don't want
to spend too much time on it. Just give you two minutes of that just
so that if actually somebody saw them came here, they're not you
know, they're getting what they came here for. Basically, this is
a book, which is considered to be one of the greatest books in the
later Chishti to solve in fact, it has its roots in the show that
Italica now without making it too complicated around the seventh
century Hmong, Luke, Egypt, there was an individual who was born in
Alexandria, Iskandariyah. This was a time in the mcglue period there
were mashallah lots of this was the height of the empire, lots of
great architecture, artistic works and so on. He Mohammed Ahmed
Ignatov Allah al Eskandari, he became a marine of Abu Abbas and
Mercy who was the Khalifa of
an Al Hasan a Sherif Ali, Abdullah Hassan to show that he was in the
desert in the spiritual lineage of Sheikh Abdul Qadir jeelani. So
it's a Kadri shoddily Teresa, and today you can visit their complex
in in a place called the Mercy complex which is in Alexandria
today. Anyway, he became he became his
He's married. And then in a few years, he composed these short,
really, really profound wisdom statements, aphorisms you call
them. And
they he went and presented them to his Sheikh. And the Sheikh said,
You have fulfilled the desires of all the friends and you've gone
even beyond that. Basically, you have taken the thoughts of the
Sufis of the great messiah of Allah, the Abdullah, and you've
gone even beyond that. Anyway, he then he was in Cairo. He was a
teacher at the Azhar University, etc. And he's buried in the
Carozza cemetery in Cairo. We have a great Hanafi jurist, his name is
Kamal YBNL. Hamam, also a CRC of Alexandria as well. He was one day
going through this.
He was going through the cemetery where igniter Illa Eskandari is
buried, and He was reading sort of Hood. He was just doing Tilawat
and he came to the verse
which is
what's the verse?
Sorry, which one?
Yeah, what's before that?
Yo, Mama,
Furman home Shaka, uma was sorry, is talking about day of judgment
then says among them will be people who will be wretched. And
there will be people who will be fortunate, the good and the bad on
Day of Judgment. And he happened to read this verse as he passed
this this grave of a pinata. Allah is going Rahim Allah, and he heard
it and I thought it was voice from there saying, there are no shocky
among us, there are no wretched ones among us. So then YBNL Humam,
he gave
he requested that he be buried in that same great graveyard, I
wouldn't mind being in such a graveyard Subhanallah very, very
ajeeb individual scholars later on, they wrote big commentaries on
this because some of them extremely complex, they are on all
levels of the solf. So depending on where you are, that's what
you'll get other things will just seem beyond. Right. That's why
numerous commentaries have been written by some great automatic
Hypno Jeeva. Even our brother Randy from Spain, and
the rook etc, etc. Now, what happened is, you've all heard of
about 100 years ago, this book, now suddenly becomes very
important in the Indian subcontinent. You have *
Abdullah, Mahajan, maki Rahim Allah, you know, he's the, the
great shape of the old great, you know, many of the great amount of
the subcontinent. So he finds great benefit in this work.
Before that, about
a few 100 years before that, there was another scholar from the
Indian subcontinent, Allah matar hippopotami Ramet, Allah, Allah,
great Hadith scholar who then move to Makkah to the Haramain. And
what he did with these aphorisms, there's about 260. But they don't
seem to be in any clear order, though. There is an order in the
mind of the author, of course, but it so what he did was he took them
and he chapters them, so he put all of those related to poverty
together all those related to solid, stay calm, etc, together.
30 chapters he's got. So * Abdullah, he told Maulana Karela
Amazon and booty Rahmatullah, who has his money, right, so although
he was worried he then got killed off it generally is thought to be
from Monterey, cinnamon gumbo he later so he told him to translate
this in order. So he translated it into order, and he called it a
tomato near the translation of the HECM. It's mounted short phrases
in translating into odo for the benefit of the Urdu speaking
people of the time. Now, as I said, the very complex many of
them are very calm. Some of them are on a, you know, an easy,
attainable, comprehensive level, others are very difficult, and
others, they just refine our faith. They tell us how to worship
Allah in a better way. Amazing stuff. Amazing stuff. So Monica
Lama somebody had a student whose name was Maulana Abdullah Ganga he
Rahmatullah and many of us probably haven't heard of him,
because he's relatively less known. And he died quite early. He
was a student, a special student of Hassan Sheikh Abdullah his
father more than a year, one of these persons students want to
hear taken on a few students. And he really taught them well, so
well, that Maulana Hakeem when I'm at Monash every time we wanted a
teacher in tunnel bond for his mother, as he asked more than a
year, can you send me a Teacher He sent him modern Abdullah Ganga he
Rahmatullah it and one of the lagoon, you did a wonderful job
there. Then he became a teacher in Sahara. And then he was with
Monongahela, Santa Maria de la, Mala hate, and somebody told this
student of his to write a commentary on this book, which he
called the Ecomondo Shem. And when I was in Dar Salam, very many,
many years ago, this was I was in Hazzard Monisha sobs room. He'd
given me his room to sleep in where he had his library. And I
would always look at this library, this library of his actual sleep
next to it, it was me and Manas. A courier from from Canada was also
a mala used to have a Khalifa
And monozukuri once said The Hazards told me to read those two
books down there. So which ones at that time I probably didn't even
read Arabic properly or the property because I was in first
year or second year or something like that. And he said it Komodo
Shem
and era shoudl mullock. In the absolute shadow look, these are
like the two in handshakes areas in the later, Chishti tariqa.
These are like two of the main books of the Tariqa of the order
for somebody really to progress and understand what it's all
about, and the secrets of the path. These are the books for it.
So there's different levels, I mean, people can benefit from it
on different levels. So I used to always think so Hanalei, you know,
I'd like to read that one day. Now what happened is about 10 years
ago, there's a person I know in Bradford who got this book, it's
it's already been translated, but not a professional translation in
South Africa.
What they did was they decided to do a really good editing of it so
that it could be of great benefit. So they started the work, did
about 80% of the work or more. And then after about two years or
something, they dropped two projects. And my life was in and I
was like, No, that has a very good project. So they said, Well, we're
not going to do it anymore. Something happened or whatever.
Publishing is a very difficult game. It's never it's never on
time. It's it has his own life. So we decided to take the project
over we paid whatever the expenses that they incurred and so on. So
what they did was for the Hichem itself, they got Victor Danis
translation. Now, Victor Danna, is a had some correspondence with his
wife, many people think he's a non Muslim, but she said he did become
a Muslim, afterwards, but he's got the his translation is beautiful.
It's short, and he tries to match if not, I thought it was style in
Arabic, he tries to match it in English, as opposed to doing like
a lengthy translation, he keeps it short and effective is beautiful.
This is a very high level. Now, what they did what this company
had done, these brothers is they found an editor, a Muslim,
convert, who met matched Victor Danna style in the original
sayings, in the commentary as well. So they heighten the
language. So we need Alhamdulillah. In the last few
years, there have been some very good books that have come out to
define what the soul is for a pure English speaking crowd, then they
can understand what this richness that there was in the subcontinent
as well. Now, this is just to give, you know, people the
richness of our heritage, I mean, there's nothing wrong with that
it's, you know, where we found benefit and something we want to
share with others. So there's a positive intention in that. So
anyway, that book Alhamdulillah, it took about a lot of mashallah,
with testimonies. Finally, it came out in the beginning of Ramadan,
finally, it came out. And you know, we really put everything in
in terms of the design, the look, the paper, the cover, and etc,
etc. So when I, when we were speaking, to increase by about
this program, and I've spoken to one author himself, and I was
hoping he would have been here, but he's in the neaten, because he
was just there at the book launch in London for this book last week,
this book and another book that took off publishing it. This is
done on the white thread press. So we thought, okay, we'll just put
it out there. If anybody is interested in a copy, it's there.
So I've just introduced it. For example, I'll just tell you two
things. He says,
it is such a crime, that you do worship, and then you hope for
reward from Allah subhanho wa taala.
Now, you might think, what is he talking about? Of course, we want
to reward from Allah subhanaw taala. I've done worship, I want
to reward.
But he's thinking on a different level, one who recognizes Allah,
He says, because it's from him that that worship has come to you
anyway. So it should just be sufficient that he accepts that.
And he doesn't even if he doesn't give you an MHS accepts it. That
should be big enough, because he's the one who did it in the first
place for you otherwise, you'd never be able to do it.
Now, what does that do for us? The next worship we do? What are we
going to think? We're going to think that this is Tofig from
Allah. Don't rejoice in your worship because it came from you.
He says, Rejoice because it came from Allah, and he thought you
were worthy of it. That is ajeeb that is achieved. Subhanallah so
I've prayed a shot today. I managed to do tahajjud let's say
and I think wow, I managed to do that. What I should be thinking is
all thanks to Allah that He made me. He thought I was worthy of
standing in front of him at night.
So he refines our approach to Allah subhanaw taala pieridae
Kochiyama is our day to worship Allah subhanaw taala
this is what's missing. This level is what you will only get from the
Masha if you will only get from the Messiah. So when you can't
pray tahajjud when you can't wake up for Fudger don't think I can't
wake up fajr I think Allah doesn't wake me up for Fajr Allah doesn't
want me to wake up, Professor. Then you see how bad that fields?
I can't wake a fisherman that was bad.
No, Allah didn't want me for fish.
If he didn't want me in his house, think about it that way. So
anyways here that's the book. These are just some of the some of
the points in there.
Make a DUA and then I'll take your questions. So the Wharton
Professor
Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad Warner early so you then
Mohammed or Bertie Gosselin Alhamdulillah Allah Allah you will
have a low homie Are you a younger African history Allah who may know
me I'm a nun la isla elantas Anika in economic authority me
just Allahu Allah and Mohammed and MA Hua Allahumma salli wa salam
ala Sayidina Muhammad wa ala earliest that you didn't know
Muhammad are vertical smooth. Oh Allah we ask you for acceptance of
Allah, we ask You for steadfastness. Oh Allah, we ask
you for forgiveness of Allah, we ask you for forgiveness from all
those sins we've committed, whether openly or secretly,
whether brazenly or whether in fear of Allah we've been diluted
so many times by the shaytaan, and by your veiling us so we commit a
sin and then nothing happens, we become diluted and we do the sin
again. And then nothing happens when we do the sin again. of
Allah, O Allah, we ask you for forgiveness of Allah, we ask you
for forgiveness. All those are closed, only your door is open. Oh
Allah, all those are closed. Oh Allah, every one is limited. Only
you're the infinite entity. Oh Allah, you're the generous entity.
Oh Allah. We know that your anger is there but oh Allah we know that
your mercy is greater and has dominated your anger of Allah you
remind us of your mercy day in and day out. You make us read
Bismillah AR Rahman AR Rahim. All merciful, gracious many times a
day before we do deeds of Allah. This is to remind us of your mercy
because you know who are sinners? Because you know, we will go
wrong. You know, we will fumble we will we will stumble over Hola. We
say Al hamdu, lillahi, rabbil, Alameen Rahmani Raheem, O Allah,
this is the mercy that we attach ourselves to. This is what we have
hope. This is what we have hoping of Allah. The hope that we have in
you is because you told Musa you told her rune rd he salam to go
and speak gently to Pharaoh, whereas you knew that Pharaoh was
not going to believe and Pharaoh used to say an Abu como Allah, I
am your highest Lord, but yet you still told them to speak softly
and gently to him. Oh Allah We Say Subhan Allah BL Allah. We Say
Subhan Allah Allah Allah Allah glorified be our Lord Most High.
So we expect that you will treat us with gentleness because we
proclaim your greatness and your might and Your Majesty of Allah We
ask that you turn to us. Oh Allah you ask your allow us to turn to
you. Oh Allah we submit our hearts in your court of Allah make them
as you want them.
Oh Allah take away from our hearts all disobedience is any love for
disobedience is of Allah putting it obedience and the love for
obedience, and make our hearts the way you want them to be? Oh Allah,
we have no control. We have many challenges around us of Allah make
our conducive surrounding to your obedience. Oh Allah. You've placed
us here for a reason. Oh Allah, allow us to fulfill our reason for
being here. Allow us to be useful individuals for being for stuff
Allah Allah allow us to stop wasting time to be deceived by
many things that surround us. Oh Allah, Oh Allah our internal
states are really bad of Allah if our internal states became exposed
outside people wouldn't want to speak to us. Wouldn't want to sit
with us wouldn't want to invite us. Oh Allah, but you keep us
covered of Allah you keep us covered keep us covered on day of
judgment of Allah grants the Kadima on our deathbed. Grant us a
good ending. Grant is a good seeding state of Allah protects us
from an evil seeding state of Allah have mercy on us. Oh Allah
had compassion on us. Oh Allah have compassion on our Ummah
today. Oh Allah have compassion on our Ummah today. Oh Allah, we give
you the vast data, we give you the story of that boy, who is in one
of those countries and Eid is coming up. Oh Allah eat has just
passed. And as a child who two weeks before he
is with his friends, and the friends are beginning to discuss
what their fathers are going to bring them for it. And this child,
he goes to his mother, and he says to his mother, Oh, Mother, what am
I gonna get for it?
And his mother says to him, the father that used to bring you your
gifts, he's no longer with us. He is no longer with us. Imagine the
feeling of this child of Allah we ask you by the feeling of this
child to have mercy on them. And day in and day out as he as he
draws near and then the day of Eid comes and this child has nothing
and all his friends have something of Allah we give you we we
We ask you to have mercy on this woman, Oh Allah, we ask you to
make us worthy of your mercy to remove from us all those traits,
and all of those things and actions and deeds that we do that
prevent your mercy from Us. Oh Allah, we ask you forgiveness,
from all of those sins that have prevented baraka from coming into
our homes, into our families into our work in our jobs of Allah,
that has taken the baraka out of our lives of Allah we asked you to
forgive us from those sins of Allah, we asked you to cleanse us,
we asked you to purify us, and oh, Allah is no one else we can hold
our hands up to, oh Allah Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And
so the Allahu Anhu says, For 10 years, he served Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, but never once did he tell him off? Or
he never once did He say, Why did you do that? Why did you do this?
What level of mercy? What level of pardon? What level of compassion
is that? But still, you gave him that mercy. You withheld 99% of
the mercy to you. All the mercy that is exercised by all the women
in this world and the mothers for their children of Allah, you have
more than that, Oh Allah, we're worse than that child. In terms of
the impurities of our sin, the child has is on the area, the
child everybody wants to pick up. But now he's soiled himself. He
smells bad. And he's dirty disclose nobody wants to pick that
child up anymore. And only the mother has enough compassion in
our heart and mercy in her heart that she will pick that child up.
She will go and wash that child bathed that child she will go and
perfume that child and put nice clothes and make him looking nice
again. Oh Allah and smelling nice again. Oh Allah, you have more
mercy than all the mothers in this world. Now Allah we ask that you
purify us, you purify us, our Allah we stand in front of the
Kaaba and we so enjoy standing there and the satisfaction we
gain. When we go for Umrah and Hajj of Allah grant us that same
satisfaction when we stand in front of you. Oh Allah, Allah make
the best moment of our existence, the day that we stand in front of
you, and oh Allah make the end of our life better than the early
part of our life. Oh Allah. And we ask you one final thing that you
send your abundant blessings on our messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and that you grant you grant him great Jezza on
behalf of his ummah, and you grant us this company on the Day of
Judgment. Oh Allah, Oh Allah grant our doors those with us and those
we should have asked Oh Allah grant us Oh Allah make us part of
all the best doors that are made in this night wherever the world
over, oh Allah make us give us all the great and the best of things
that that are being asked on this night of Allah give us those
things Subhan Allah because Allah is that your Allah your seafood,
wa salam ala moana Serena