Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – High Ambitions and Success
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As Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
This is related by Imam Bukhari,
in which the prophets of Allah, Allah are sitting
with a gathering of companions,
and a person strutting around on a horse. Similarly, a very well
dressed individual
going around on his horse, very dignified kind of appearance.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asked the Sahaba, what
do you think of this man?
They said, he's a very influential man, if he is to
make a proposal is going to be accepted. If he makes a
recommendation to be accepted,
if he speaks, listen to
that's generally the way people react. The progress of a loved
lighting system did not make any comments on what they said,
after a while.
The professor Lombardi Mr. Lumm, saw another man, this time was the
opposite.
clothing was so I
didn't look very, didn't look very influential. And
so the prophets of Allah said, What do you think of this man?
And they said, Oh, he's such a person that if he,
if he speaks, nobody's gonna listen to him.
If he comes to your house, you're not gonna.
If he makes a proposal, it's not going to be accepted. So he
doesn't have any instruments whatsoever. They're trying to say,
this time the province made a comment, you said,
a world full on the first type of person
is not as good as this one single individual. So this one single
individual is superior to an entire world full of the other
question.
Before you miss understand this, and before you start to think that
being dressed well, and being on a horse, or in a nice continent,
is a source of is considered to be a source of concern. And to be
with tattoo clothing is supposed to be
the way of success. So there must have been a reason why this person
was doing was there was something in his heart. There was something
about him which the Promise of Allah mu,
which made the promise of a lotus and I'm making this comment
because the premise of the lesson himself said that
some great is pure wealth
in the hands of a pious person.
There is nothing wrong with having well it's what you do with it, and
what it can do to your heart.
There's another Hadith in Sahih Muslim, in which the prophets of
Allah said
welcome to the women abou army. No Oksana in the abattoir
that there are certain individuals
that are very disheveled in their appearance, soiled clothing,
disheveled in their appearance. They seem very unkempt, untidy.
If they came to your door, you would tell them to disappear.
Not through the minute but they are so close to Allah subhanaw
taala
that if they swore
Oh, if they took a customer, Allah would fulfill that customer for
them.
For example, if they said well Allah He it's been arranged,
Allah would cause it to rain
doesn't mean that they command the love doesn't mean that they in
charge of Allah. This is just Allah's love for these people that
and they don't make unruly demands.
This also does not mean that the way of success is to be unkept.
But the way of success is to be disheveled. And to be, you know,
so in such a state that people don't want to speak to you, that's
not the point. The point here is that it's all got to do with
something of the hearts. The particular reason why the
counselors have said this, about this individual that there are
certain individuals and likeness which you may just not look at for
the second in a second glance, and yet they're so close to Allah
subhanaw taala but that doesn't mean that there's there are other
people who are also close to Allah subhanaw taala. It said about Pema
Hanifa Rahim Allah, when he used to, when he used to go somewhere,
people could tell that he passed through because of the expensive
coffee he was used to use. He was a very successful cloth merchant
used to wear the best of both worlds and clothing is to spend a
huge amount on himself and on others, as well. On one occasion,
there's an individual that was in one of his classes. And after he
looked like he needed help, because of the way his clothing
and everything was. So after everybody left, he told him to
stay back and after everybody, everybody left, honey
took up some money, and he gave it to us and he had going soldiers
out he says I'm not in any need of this.
I have so that was sent to him then Allah like there's a hadith
it says in the law.
You
Allah subhana wa Taala likes to see the effects of His bounties on
Allah has given you use it.
So then you had your magic Rahim Allah He used to be a nice to
somebody even asked him about this.
But you dressed so well and so on. Because you have some other
animals we used to not be they used to weather. They used to wear
the coarsest of cloth.
They used to eat the roughest of foods.
And he started punching down patch the garments. So somebody asked
him
so you might call him up Allah. He said, Yes, we were listening, we
make a Stefan.
So the better approach is to is to be like a 14 because that's what
the prophets of Allah is. He like to stay as simple as possible.
A few times, were not the most expensive garments, but it's
permissible. But you were Mannix answer was beautiful. He said we
do it. And maybe there's some optimal. It may be some of them.
No, we do it for a reason. So it's mentioned about the money.
That when they came, they used to be in his house. And they used to
come and say come and teach us give us a dose give us a class. So
you would ask What class are you wanting, or Hadith, if it was a
fifth class and he would go out and he would teach it. If it was a
hadith Dubs, he would go out. Before going up though, he would
get specially dressed in a special government would put a turban on,
he would use fragrance, he would use buffoon, he would have a
special seating made. And then he would go out specially for them
strategically, because of his special respect that he had for
the words of Rasulullah sallallahu.
So
x acceptance, and then of the auditor, this is got to do with
acceptance criteria in the sight of Allah subhanaw taala regardless
of how you are,
because of how you are,
but there has to be something that there's a heart that is good
enough polar acceptance. It's all a matter of the heart, that you
can gain acceptance by or rejection, regardless of how your
outer is, whether your outer is fabulous and extremely inspiring
for others, or when it's not. So it's the heart that we need to
focus on and we need to work because that's the ingredients of
success.
So now
what we need to try to determine to me is what Allah what has Allah
given us in wealth ability.
Everybody thinks to themselves, what has Allah given you?
Each one of us, what are we good at?
Because be good at something. Some people are very good at making
money. They see opportunities before anybody else does. And for
some reason, they're the only ones who see an opportunity and be
like, how did you know that stock was gonna go up? How did you know
that share was gonna do
Look, how did you know that this opportunity was there and this
building was home that this building was available? How do you
know?
Like I know one individual
who's in the extended family, and mashallah, he is extremely
obedient to his mother, and one of the brothers, he's the most
obedient brother, but others are more pious than him, more
knowledgeable than him. But he praises solid, he does this.
But he's more obedient to his mother. And my father says about
him, that he's got so much baraka and he has the most Baraka among
all of his brothers. And my father says about him is that he can
throw a dice anyhow. And he always gets a six. I mean, that's the
metaphor, that he can do something anyhow and he gets it right Allah
Subhan Allah has given you the boat.
Baraka comes from many different ways this is baraka is also a way
of acceptance by Allah subhanaw taala.
How would you gain this acceptance? First, we need to
recognize what ability Allah has given us. As I said, some people
are good at making money. Some people are good at painting. Some
people are good at fixing computers, some people are good at
programming. Some people are good at law, good solicitors, some
people are good businessmen. Some people are good at speaking. Some
people are good at making money driving taxis. Some people are
good at playing football. Some people are very active, they're
very good at making things with their hands. And some people are
very good at convincing others. Some people are very good at
deceiving others. Some people are very good at making scans and
running scams. Some people are good at cheating and lying.
There's different people and some people are very good at doing
haram things. So we all have different abilities. Now, first
and foremost, do you know what ability you have?
The ability in Arabic is called Kabini. And what Korbinian does
every one of us have? Allah has given every single one of us some
ability.
Have you found that ability? You have to do something? What do you
what do you wish?
You could
see, everybody has some ability, using your mind, intellect.
Somebody is very intellectual. Somebody can teach very well. Some
people can give good very good speeches, some people very good
at, you know, education, many different things. It doesn't
matter what it is. The pursuit in our life, is how can we take this
convenience?
And turn it into a Boolean?
Take this and turn it into acceptance by a loss or
is it just going to Jana?
Is it only people who've studied for 610 years that are going to go
into general? Is it only profiles that are only able and capable to
go into Japan can even hope for this?
Then why do the rest of us never have this desire and intention?
That I also do only have Allah?
Is that? Can you don't you believe that Allah has the ability to make
sure when you
are you're under estimating Allah subhanaw taala
you don't think Allah has the power to do this. Whereas Allah
subhanaw taala says and put see that in the golden era TV, I am
with my servant as he thinks of me.
So you think that you can't become as they say, Dude, because people
lose wake up in the engine every night. You hear the stories of
such people, you think you can never do that? Have you ever
designed once to do that, that I also become like that one day?
Have you ever had a desire that I also become Mr. Jab without words,
that I also become one who's every dollar is
you think that's beyond Allah to make you and I have that category?
Is it just a mother can think this way. This is for everybody. In our
communities, one of the one of the problems that we're facing is that
the common people have left everything to the roadmap. They
must guide us and they must also take the best. We will just go
behind you. Yes, Coronavirus should guide us. But you can also
get into gender tutorial ghosts. You can also do enough work, and
you could also help the community. And that's what's important,
because everybody has a copy. And if you haven't recognized the
ability within you and you're just the person who just lazing around
everyday and takes every day as it comes. Whatever happens the next
day fine because you're so lazy because you're so unmotivated
because you absolutely have no desire and dreams in your life.
except just to relax and do nothing and sleep all day, right?
In my early rocking off Allah, he mentioned one thing very
interesting. He says that whenever you do something you should be
trying to do as much good as possible. And for those people, he
says that good can't do good. And while he's doing bad, then at
least what they should try to do is that they should try to sleep.
Because in sleep, he says, later, I think what, whatever the
situation of sleeping is that neither will you benefit. You
won't be doing any good deeds, but neither will you be harming
anybody, neither will you be doing anything wrong. So it's a neutral
state. So now many people who like to sleep, they get very happy when
they read this. And they think, okay, good. We've got to go to
sleep. But then immediately afterwards, the man
you mentioned, he says, But what good is there in life in which a
major part of it is death? because sleep is the sister of that.
So essentially, the only option that we're left with is to do good
in this world. And how do you do good? You do good by being good to
others. Planets? give a few examples.
If we go back, many, many years ago, has anybody been to Egypt?
Has anybody traveled to Egypt in their life? Have you been to the
Pharaonic Museum?
Right, if you've been to the Quranic Museum, it's about four or
five stories of all of these artifacts from the time of Pharaoh
and it has a jeep, it has so much stuff in there. That is only a
fraction of what they found. There's so much more stuff that
was built 100 years ago by the British, there is everything in
there from I remember seeing a needle
from the time of Pharaoh around to his chariot, to his, you know, big
car or bus or whatever you want to flex is what everything every
is a gene how Allah has allowed this to be preserved. Because
Allah subhanaw taala, he said this.
As Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, and Pharaoh was about
today,
ALLAH SubhanA wa says, and human energy can be better than later
cool.
I'm going to give you a respite with your body, I'm not going to
drown your body, you will die, but I'm not going to drown your body,
your body will be will survive so that you can be a lesson, you can
be a lesson for people that come after you. So when I went to
Egypt, about six, seven years ago, I went to the Quranic museum. And
at that time, when you enter, you have to pay 4040 Egyptian columns,
if I remember correctly for the tickets.
So you go in and you start seeing everything and then on the third
floor floor, I can't remember now, right, maybe somebody can correct
me, there's a special rule in which you have to buy another
ticket and that ticket cost of 90. That's a cost 90 Egyptian times
more than double the price. You don't have to, you can just see
everything else you can see 95% 98% Because this one area is
separate. That's the mummy there's about nine mummies in there.
Seven to nine mummies in mummies means ALLAH had given these people
this ability. Allah had given these people this ability to
preserve the dead, the deceased by wrapping them up in these
bandages, and it preserved them so you've got these nine mummies,
including madam tell the Pharaoh Madame tan, and Ramses the second.
One of those two are the pharaohs from the time of the Saudis. Most
people think it's restaurants, you save your money, you don't need to
go there to see it. You can see it online. Right? Because if you tap
Ramses the second look for images on Google find this, right? So you
don't have to go there to see that. But it's, it's the reason I
went there is to just see because Allah subhanaw taala says,
unmaking you I am making you as a lesson for the people after you so
Subhanallah there's a reason why that was there. So that's why I
justified going move some of you may be saying giving me something
but that's up to you but this was my justification.
Some of the rollerball mentioned that federal tried to become a
believer the last moment he says I now believe in the role of Busan.
So some of the relevant mentioned that maybe that's the reason why
Allah subhanaw taala gave him partial, a partial existence of
tools, though he's dead in Allah did not accept it today to cover
but this is what he was preserved. But the most amazing thing is
this. Right? It just goes to God it just goes to show you had about
only about 100 to 150 years ago was this body of what were these
mummies found in the pyramids, how etc They discovered these mummies
and so on. So only about 150 years ago, up to 100 years ago, were
these mummies found but Allah subhanaw taala said 1400 years ago
to us that I'm going to give a he revealed to us that
Pharaoh is going to be preserved. Pharaoh's body is going to be
preserved but there was no Pharaoh's body until about 150
years ago when they discovered it, but the mashallah the believers in
the Quran they had they believe Allah has made that belief even
easy for us that he's actually shown us a massive miracle of the
Quran.
One of the great miracles of the Quran is and Allah subhanho wa
Taala talks about the pharaohs body, right being giving him
survival with that, and SubhanAllah. That body was not
available for us to see about 100. And so many years prior, that body
is discovered and now is free for all to see as a miracle of the
corrupt
regime. What does that say about our iman? Do we not believe unless
we see
and the people before us used to believe without seeing the Eman
believe was stronger than ours? Is that the case? Because our Eman is
all about Iman believe and Latina you'll never believe where you can
go Yukimura Sora. And then Allah subhanho wa Taala says we're not
eager, either with them dropping him off the hole. So major parts
of our fate is to believe in the unseen. But anyway,
what I want to mention is that when you look at this, when you
look at Egyptology, where you study Egyptology and you look at
this museum, and you see all of these amazing things that they
were able to produce, at that time, everything from a needle and
a mirror to a chariot, right? You must think that Pharaoh must have
been an amazing individual. There's no doubt about it. Amazing
individual, extreme ability, capability to rule to make people
work yet enslaved an entire nation, the Bani Israel, slave
labor order that what you saw in there was all made from slave
labor. Right? It's all slave labor at the end of the day. But this
man had some kind of foresight ability or dream ambitions goals.
There's no doubt about that.
Now, you may wonder how many years ago the federal level, does
anybody know?
How many years ago Are we speaking about these artifacts that are
found in this in this museum, how many hundreds of years it's 4000.
Which means because Musa This was 2000 years before isa days. And we
are 2000 years after isa days. So we're talking about 4000 years
ago, things from 1000 years ago that are still preserved. So
although Allah subhanaw taala said, I need to preserve your
body, it preserved every
gene miracle.
So Pharaoh had some hygiene capability, many years ads. But
did he have Koblenz? In Arabic, you've got the word club in
football? Yes. They both come from the same root words. Current
belief comes from
Kabuli comes from top.
If you have cobbly. And do you have to be leaders, because Kabuli
which means acceptance does not remain to this world only. It's
what takes your company and gives you the fruits of it in the
Hereafter.
And that's what we need to ask ourselves. First and foremost,
have you recognized your capability? And number two, if you
have recognized your capability, what are you doing with your
capability? Is it on the path to be accepted by Allah? subhanaw
taala? You know, there are certain people who you can tell they when
they pick up a newspaper, just see which side they start from.
Right when you start from the beginning? Or do they start from
the end? If they pick up a newspaper, in the time that people
still use, everybody just checks it on their phones, but you pick
up the paper and they only read the last four or five pages. They
don't care about the rest of the pages. What does that tell you
about somebody?
Do you know what I'm talking about?
You pick up a paper, and you only read the last four pages, the last
five pages and then you throw the paper away? All you're interested
is the sports.
You're not interested in anything else? What's going on around the
world? What does that tell you about us? What's our what concerns
us? What is of concern to us of what some people are doing while
the rest of the world suffers? Few people are enjoying themselves
being paid millions and millions of pounds. Right? That's not what
I'm going to speak about. What I'm going to speak about is that do we
have a purpose in life? Do we have an ability that we recognize that
we are going to do something whatever that ability is, let us
try to use it in the best manner possible. So that despite how
capable we are,
like the Pharaoh was that we should also gain Kabuli as opposed
to just having competence. We should gain acceptance as opposed
to just having ability. So raw ability is nothing that's just a
part of this dunya part of the world. Let's take an example from
2000 years after your
time was horrible.
Awesome, Allahu
Allah,
the Prophet sallallahu. I used to be that God, it was the beginning
stages of Islam.
The process that allows me to do, he said, Oh Allah strengthen this
deal
with one of the two owners.
There are two very, very able capable individuals. One was Omar,
Abdul Fatah, and your loved one. Most of you should no longer in
photography, Allah is the same man. We've had a boldness about
it. Now people have told us about them. Some people use the boneless
for the wrong and some people use it for the right is the man among
all the people in Makkah, that after Professor lorrison Professor
is claimed the professor's face. He's the one who had the guts to
stand up with a sword and say I'm going to finish this off. I'm
going to finish this matter off. He's the one who had the guts to
do this the boldness. He was that brazen. But that became his
conversion story.
There's another man who was equally capable in another sense.
He was he had great judicial prowess was very insightful into
matters. That's why he was able to hack on at the time.
He was called a good hacker at the time. His name was actually our
intuition. He became a Bucha afterwards. That's a Bucha his
name.
There very capable leader have the courage and the promise that was
made to give one of these days.
And Allah subhanho wa Taala to both of these peoples got the
deal, but he chose to give concrete to one man.
He gave it to one man and not the other.
That was
actually your honor must say that the seed of Eman crept into his
heart for just before this.
What images dimensions in his guitar on top of them.
He says that some time before that, I want to do a lot one had a
problem in his house. So he decided to spend his time spent
that night outside in the home.
That time it was pagan you used to be able to worship and so on but
the process that allows us to go there and he used to recite Quran
used to mix a lot and this was this was before Homer vehemence
conversion. So when he got there, he had the practice of reciting
Quran
and
they used to love to listen to the Quran because it was extremely
mesmerizing.
It was it was reaching
beautiful, absolute beautiful, eloquent compositions, but didn't
want to be caught listening. Because it affected the rest of
the people were sensitive. So he hid behind the Club of Chicago.
And Allah, Allah's Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is
reciting the other half of the rock.
So after his recital, a number of ions amaro the Allah one couldn't
help it. Listening to these amazing words, is beautiful
rendering that's beautifying his money glorifying his heart. He
said,
I would love
this man, by Allah is has to be a poet.
This man has to be a poet looking at these beautiful words He's
composing. And you know, the next, you know sort of that help the
next verse, and the end is warmer for the publisher. But
these are not the words of a poet. So little do you believe. So when
I heard this in his heart, he said, bancha hidden? He must be a
soothsayer.
He must be a soothsayer.
And the next verse is one
Kadena matter? Neither is it the words of a soothsayer, so little
do you think and reflect,
then zero
is revealed from the Lord of the Worlds.
Islam had already started creeping into the scene. Now you have to
realize that people, when they mean following a certain ideology
a certain way when they have a certain practice for much of their
life, you don't change it. Most people don't change overnight. It
takes a while for people to adjust change. That's why
you must realize that we have certain individuals who used to be
very naughty
and do bad things and then suddenly they become guidance. Now
they want to make they
kind of guide the world. And they do it in a militant way.
They become militant about it, they want to change everybody in
one night, it took them years, they want to change their whole
family so that they start making American
military. It's not gonna work like that changing hearts is the
prerogative of Allah, who can do it in an instance. He does it
according to his wisdom when he likes, we can be the tool for this
with wisdom, with our wisdom with discretion.
Right, we have to use a lot of discretion.
I remember once when I started by Muhammad positioning in one place
in America, one of our committee members, I talked about a
particular group, how harmful they are, and so on.
And this person, he became very agitated by this, he said, This is
disunity or talking about them like this, this is for students.
Right?
Meaning, unity, this is breaking the unity. I didn't know what to
say at that time. Three years later, the same brother was
sitting there, he brought up the subject and he started condemning
these people
was like, well, three years ago, you were condemning me for talking
about it. You realize that takes a while. It takes a while. So for
example, now proceed is the next moment. He's got a sword, and he's
gonna go and attack Rasulullah sallallahu.
Right. Because you see, when you people go through an internal
turbulence, an internal fight between themselves, should I do
this? Shouldn't I do it, it's like, there's a rebellion going on
inside. troubled mind. Allah subhanaw taala had acceptance. And
thus, he accepted. And he became a museum of Benin, and the great
relief, as we know.
So his club needed became Coblenz.
But not Bucha 100 He became a child, the father weakness. And
that's how he's remembered. For many, many centuries. That's what
most people don't even know that he was able to hack and most
people don't even know his real name, the Amory Bucha. They just
know him as a Bucha.
Right, even when the orientalist decoding decoding of Bucha,
even objective individuals refer to him as a Magellan, because
that's what he's become known as,
right?
Now, let's look a few hours, a few more now. And then during all of
this is to do with compassion in the heart, it's about something in
your heart that wants to do something, it's those people that
are going to get far. I remember,
I met with an individual who is fighting for the rights of Muslims
in in California. And he's head of a major organization that will not
be for Muslims, if they have any kind of discrimination at work in
workplaces, where the wearing hijab or praying salah or so on.
He's got. He's part of this massive organization, and he's the
head of the organization in that area. I knew this brother. So
another brother in my community, he said like many, many years ago,
I met the same brother in Disney Worlds.
Right? This Southern California, that's where you've got your your
Disneyland and your Universal Studios and Legoland and we'll see
you all and you've got all that stuff. And he said, I met this
brother there. And I saw him. He saw me we recognize each other as
Muslims. You're gonna pray Lord, yes, we're gonna pray Lord, and we
were looking for a place. And he was saying, You know what, we need
to campaign to get them to make something here for us to make some
does that for us? We will say, let's just find a place to bring
our thought does it go to the fact that hey, we should be talking to
these people? Because things are coming here. Can you give us a
piece of bread? There's a level of thought process. Right? Are we
just gonna want to do things for ourselves? In fact, there'll be a
lot of thought process, or we can pray down here. People are gonna
watch us people will look at us look at us. So you've got that
thought process, you got a thought process, we need to pray, let's
just find a place behind the baby somewhere or behind, you know,
behind the toilets, right? Or in you know, wherever. And there's a
third thought process, we'll pray but we need to think about this.
Right? This person eventually became the head of this
organization. They're the kind of people who are gonna get us
somewhere. Right? That's the kind of him in my idea. That's the kind
of process we need. We've got numerous young, talented people,
a lot of them, but we like him ideal. For many of us when we're
scared. We don't know what to do. So we infuse our children with the
same thing and we bring them up in the same way. We don't know how to
give them embargoed yet. And look, you need to carry those because we
can't do it. Maybe first generation we can't do it. We need
to give the image to the rest. We've got children who are
graduating from some of the best universities. We've got minds are
becoming some of the best ones. We've got amazing abilities, but
we're not giving them we're not giving them the ability. We're not
Helping them in that way. We need to really think about need to
think about this. Now.
If you look at Abu Bakr, Siddiq Rhodiola
The story is about Milan, Milan and the Allah one was owned he was
a slave he was owned by one of the people
and he was extremely cruel used to persecute him
and you know his persecution the story is famous everybody knows
that he used to make him lie on the hot sand
and his skin used to melt and he used to say,
oh, Gawker, this one man who thought I need to sort him out I
need to do something
I need to do so
it's like this one doctor from London who goes to Syria and gets
killed.
May Allah subhanaw taala give him a high place and everybody's is
Janaza prayer was today in London.
So Abu Bakr Siddiq on the Allah one went to the master of this
man.
And he said to him, sell him to me on buying from you. And the master
wants you to get rid of him because he was a liability.
Because it was seen as shame that your sleeve as converted to this
alien.
Right by the people of Makkah, this was seen as strange.
So
it's getting a bit hot in here.
One thing about our massage and they're always hot
and hot, more tender toilets.
And the months of food supply levels. Extra freezer, you know
like you can go we're gonna have a walk
maybe get some Mala which some errands
and natural stuff.
I don't know about the rest of these it just
seems like maybe it's
don't make everybody
so a little bucket has to do the Allah one who went to this man.
Do you want to send him to me? As I said, Yes. How much? So they
negotiated. I believe the negotiation came to nine measures,
measures of gold or silver, I can't remember now.
So he bought
this man then went around. And he said, You know what?
No, sorry. He bought him for four measures, four measures.
And this man then went around and he said that if he had really
negotiated property, I would have given him house Oh, they got rid
of him for one. But I got four out.
Now imagine you just went and bought a car.
Right? Or you went and bought something in a shop and then
somebody else went and bought it and they got a better price than
you How bad would you feel? You will probably say I'm gonna go
back lighting again. But you need to give me the same price and
you'd make a big deal out of it.
So what Abu Bakr Siddiq, really when he heard this, he said, if he
had gone up to 10, I would have I would have paid him.
Because the purpose was what was important to the money was
arbitrary. The money was just on the site. That's what you call
somebody with a heart was willing to spend for the right causes,
who's willing to do the right thing. It doesn't matter what it
is, is willing to do the right thing. That's what you call it's
in the heart. That's why it's mentioned about the ego, the other
man who has his story, his lifestyle, his reasons for
success. They say that his reason for success was kind of shaped
when he told me there was something in his heart. There were
other Sahaba who prayed more than
there were other Sahaba who used to make more fasting than him. But
it was a certain level of compassion in his hearts. That
just superseded everybody. That's why the prophets Allah Allah wives
have said about him, that he is the one man who I could not pay
back is any of his kindness. Everybody else I can say every
payment, but we're not going to sit eagerly I'm not one who is one
that I cannot repay this but what the province of Assam said during
his terminal illness.
Your loved one.
This was an amazing man who had the company Rasul Allah in the
most intimate moments. Can you imagine the amount of spirituality
that the prophets of Allah Islam exceeded at all times? And imagine
that you will with you know, you know, we know that.
This is you, you know that when you sit with somebody, that's a
pilot to you
You feel the benefit. When you sit with somebody with some other
expertise, you feel like enlightened. So when you sit with
somebody with Rouhani and with spirituality, you feel enlightened
by that. Now, if you are in a cave with Rasulullah Salallahu salam
for a long moment, imagine what benefit you could have gained and
the nonbank took that was equally Allah and Allah subhana wa Tada,
Allah, Allah subhanho wa Taala considered that considered that to
be so significant that he actually mentioned in the Quran, and he
said in Houma, feel abundant in the UK, who really saw heavy
in the law. Can you imagine that special interaction that was
taking place between a worker and the province of the law where you
send them when they're in that cave, or microsurgical, your loved
one was concerned for us rule of law, some a lot of it isn't that
these people will suddenly look down towards their feet and
they'll be able to see us hiding when they were escaping from our
karma, karma to Madina Munawwara in emigration, he will they will
discover us and the rest of Allah it was so uncompetitive, and he
said that don't don't don't fear because Allah subhanaw taala is
the third one among us if you're Guney Sahibi when he said to his
companion,
that must have been some amazing bombers. That is what prepared and
we're not gonna sneak under the Allah. Despite his
despite his softness to lead the Muslims at the time that was most
critical. I shudder the Allahu Anhu was refusing to Aisha Radi
Allahu Anhu was vouching for her father not to lead the press. She
was insisting that on one of the alarm we put up there. In fact, in
one occasion I did go up there the person heard his voice and he
said, No, I said above aka early Allahumma scolded
Where did he get the strength from from?
But he had the heart to take the benefits ALLAH given to
the Prophets of Allah so many came to him and said, Take everything
on mine. Can I donate everything on Monday? He said, No, we're
gonna we're gonna study by the along came, I've given everything
the path of Allah. And I've only left you in the mess, left Allah
and His messenger.
Because he knew Bucha and his family had the heart to be able to
withstand the difficulties that this would bring them. They had
the tolerance factor, while others may have not.
But that's a different story. All I want to say and focus on is the
heart that he had this kind of compassion for other people.
Today, we're so selfish, today is that time of selfishness, we were
just worried about ourselves. We're sitting with our family in
the same room, and we are miles away chatting to friends. And the
Hadith mentions that a time will come when people will distance
their parents and bring close their friends. And today, you
could do this virtually, even though physically you're in the
same room. That's the most deadly thing about you're sitting with
your family in the same room. And you are on your you are on your
phone, chatting to somebody else somewhere else. And your family is
right there. So there's no human conversation. It's all virtual
conversation.
So selfishness, just do what I want to do.
We live in these individual we're moving to living in these
individualized worlds.
Now, let's look a bit more recent times. Take an example from the
Quran verse, Allah subhanho wa Taala says, call it yah, yah
kinako, light Solomon
of nations.
So they might not exist alongside he's going with his army.
And there's suddenly a colony of ants. Now the ants they noticed
this massive army coming and they're going to be trampled and
finish the night. So one of the ants out of his compassion for the
others, he said, Oh, ants,
quickly, go into your burrows, otherwise you will be trampled on.
So they were on his arm had this whatever some of
you heard this placement, Allah has given him the ability to
understand animals and insects. Now
this was so significant.
You think this has never happened in the history that other ants
have seen big people come and warn others.
This was so significant that Allah subhanaw taala wanted to make an
example of it in the Quran.
In the Quran, which is to be a book for all times, he found a
significant enough to include it in the Quran this and and it's
compassion. It's only because of compassion of this art and that
Allah subhanaw taala brings us in the Quran. So Allah Allah
I know the story who's already
he's escaped from Egypt is going to make the
And he's run away, he's gone to the UN, and he's standing there.
And the people of that area, having their animals drink from
the watering reservoir. And then suddenly they come and they close
it up, and they go on these two goals are left behind, and they're
unable to feed. This was an act of selfishness, or murder the
moose. And he helped them. He assisted them. This was an act of
kindness that he did, where did he get, he got to marry the daughters
of a prophet X. He got a wife out of this SubhanAllah. This doesn't
mean that if you go and look for women to help, right, and you'll
get a wave out of that. I'm trying to be like such a use, though. You
know what I mean? Right.
And then after that, after the after he spent, he spent the time
that he said he wouldn't, that was stipulated for him. Now he needs
with this wife.
And she is cold. So he looks for some fire. He says, Hold on.
Because the minimum are gone. I'll go and bring you some fire. I'll
go and bring you one of the one of the branches with some fire. He
goes to get fire, an act of kindness again to his wife. What
does he come back with? He comes back to
Allah subhanho wa Taala gives them prophecy when he goes away for
that.
Acts of Kindness acts of compassion. Allah Allah, because
Allah is Kaden, compassion, compassionate, he is automatic,
and he gives in this world to even those that blaspheme, we would
feel extremely reluctant to give to those who
say untoward, unfavorable things about us. But Allah subhanho wa
Taala even gives to those who reject or rejected because we say
things like,
so he wants us to be compassionate to others. This is what's going to
help us get some kind of COVID here, because this is this doesn't
require knowledge. It doesn't require you to have huge amounts
of tafsir, Hadith and Quran. It's about putting whatever you have
studied into actually to
give you another example.
When I was in America, the Masjid that I was in, used to get about
100 people for Java.
Although we covered about 5060 miles on the coast of California,
but there were very few people. So they will all come. And we had
about 100 people for July. So we move everybody that's in town, we
would know everybody say there's somebody missing with a new
commitment now. Right?
I'm going to have you guys heard of Costco.
Right. You got one in Birmingham, right as well. So it was right by
my house on the golden day.
And this is Brother suddenly comes up.
Have you heard this story before?
So I'm on a call. How are you? So
he looks new. I knew everybody and I knew other Muslims in town.
Because they call Mossad. I'm the Imam. So I should know. He looks
new. So he's a Turkish brother. His name is
somebody go brother, how are you? They started. So first time I met
him. I never asked him I said I never said to him by the way when
you come to the masjid because the first time you eat in the next
time, he's not going to meet you again. He's gonna think man this
guy is just taking me to the masjid or
build some kind of relationship because he came to me I didn't
know he was also he came to me.
Then after that,
after that some time later, when I met him again they said brother we
have a masjid here. Do you know when maybe you should come like
that? He said Brother, you know,
I'd like to come but I got married is married to a non Muslim woman.
And I've got I have to do two jobs I have to survive. It's very it's
a very expensive area. So I have to do two jobs and they don't get
time.
Try and show
some some time after that. He got a job at one of the local gas
stations that are petrol stations. One day I come outside of salads
are finished you might come outside and there is Brother
serving bottles of chilled water to everybody.
You know bottles of bottled water is giving everybody a bottle. Now,
here somebody gives you water outside in these days. Give me
Jamie right it's too cold.
You guys gotta jump off.
You're allowed to love.
You guys are just like sitting there. I don't know whether you're
listening or you're sleeping. So hot. It's snowing.
Some of you have got coats on as well as you must be cold.
So
in California
It's hot, you call off the outside of Jim, when somebody gives you a
cold water, he doesn't even have to ask you for
that Dwight is going to come out of your house. And they're the
most powerful dogs. When is that somebody tells you brother make
too often the argument you make too often. The other one is that
he does use such a deed and you just need a load. That's the best
way you can get. So be compassionate. And you will see
that the doors will come to you, which you will realize under their
judgments.
There's no point and people think that's good as well. But the real
door is you do something for someone and you'll see that was
come. act of generosity that goes from your heart, Allah will open
up the heart for him and he will make dua for you. Anyway, the
point is this.
Above, I was shocked to see him. But you know, what made me feel so
bad, was the fact that I had never thought being the Imam was
teaching these things. I had never thought to myself that
I should bring two crates of these bottled water, which cost about
350 $3.50 Each that's about $7 and serve them to the people and gain
all of this reward. It did not occur to me. I did not get that
Tofik he got this job. I said to him, brother, Hey, man, how come
you hear what's going on? He said, You know what? The police like
working out the gas station, the petrol station, the other brothers
awesome. And now we have decided that one we can go for tomorrow,
one week, I'll go put your one.
Right, one week, I'll be able to come and he looks after at least
the next week. I look after the place he'll go for tomorrow. Which
is better than not coming at all. You know, is it haram but that's
what they can do. Right? I'm not justifying it, but that's his
situation. But I'm sitting here in Semitic, right in West is this
West Midlands, Black Country, or county?
It's now marginalized spots everywhere. Right? Even among
these factories? Do
you guys have done an amazing thing?
Right, where would you think Muslims will be here Subhanallah
you bring light to this place, and to all these places, and may Allah
subhanaw taala increase this links, right and all those who
make an effort to contribute May Allah subhanaw taala remind you,
if you do this last, you will never be it will never go to
waste, you will find that inshallah Allah will reward you
for this amazing, everybody that benefits from this will only grow,
this will only grow as England becomes more de industrialized,
this will only grow.
Right. And so how you will see the benefits of this.
So I am making every two weeks now you will have cold water outside.
But for me, I'm hitting myself that I never thought about such an
app. $7 is about five pounds, five pounds and look at the rewards
you're getting five pounds is two cups of coffee in Costa. Right.
But look at the amount of benefit that this person is getting. By
doing the simple act. I was hurting myself.
So rather than complain to your local Masjid community or
whatever, you don't do it.
Of course, you can't do everything in the small things. Because you
want to get the reward. I'll give you another example. In our
community, small community, before the month of Ramadan,
we would
there was a brother there was a brother who was about 22 years
old. He had some problems with his family. So
he lived alone, and he would survive. He would make his
interview with the students. And he would make his income by
babysitting. So he would look after people's kids.
He would come for the salon. He used to live 10 miles from the
restaurant. But he would come to every single salon
and miles in California is not a big deal. You just take the exit
jump on the highway 10 miles you off. There's the mustard right
there. It takes about 1213 minutes.
Sometimes you wouldn't be there. If somebody is there all the time
in the masjid and sometimes he's not there, you wonder. So
later, I discovered that the reason why he wasn't there
sometimes after being so regular is because he didn't have enough
money for petrol.
So he used to literally eat hand to mouth because there's no major
welfare system in America. Like there is a machine away or for
your whole life. You could just be living on welfare. Right? In
America. They might give you a bit for a while and then they force
you to work. Otherwise you become homeless, right?
They give you a lot in this country believe we should be
thankful
as Muslims, not welfare, I'm saying in general, as Muslims
we've got mashallah a lot of a lot of good things as the people from
Denmark who are sitting
right next to people in other places throughout Europe, one of
the best places to be awesome is in this country.
Right and him
Thank Allah. Yes, there's problems, there are problems, no
doubt. There are problems, there are challenges. But sometimes it's
even better to practice your faith. Yes, there's more
challenges than some other countries. But even more than some
Muslim countries, there's a relative level of peace and
stability, where you can make your Summit.
In many stanwich, which is a Muslim country, they have banned
anybody less than the age of 18 from going to the masjid.
Which means your children are not allowed to go to the masjid. And
your youth are not allowed to go until you're 18 years old. It's
adult rated. So you have to go off to 18.
This is the kind of crazy things that people are doing. But if
we're not thankful we will lose this privilege here. We're not
thankful. And we're not. We're not focused on this, we lose our
privilege. So we need to be really thinking about this.
So now,
this brother, his name is Omar.
Right, this brother, his name is
before Ramadan, we would order dates for the whole month of
Ramadan. So
what happened is, there was about a week left or something I come to
the masjid on top of cabinet ICDs, three, four boxes of dates.
People love these big California fat mid June dates. I don't like
going into too much.
I think the genetically modified originally from Iraq actually,
California has done a very good job of hygiene things. Pistachios,
it's the major major exporter of pistachios, but their first
pistachio tree was so good on that caramel Essential Tree. They took
that there they cross cultivated and everything. And their
production of pistachios is now more than Iran. Right? The dates
Medjool dates, they came from Iraq over 100 years ago. And they
planted in the audience on how they made major producers of
dates. So this is Allah has given people and they use it, and some
people don't use it.
So I noticed one of these boxes of dates, where these come from.
Somebody said, brother Omar,
I'm thinking brother Omar doesn't have money even for his petrol
sometimes where did he get this? So when rumor came, I realized
that he got this so he could get the rewards.
And when he came, I said to him, brother, what can I pay you for
them. And you know what he said to me? He said to me,
don't steal this from me.
Don't steal this from me. I felt so bad. I'm getting paid, I've got
money. I did not think of doing this I was waiting for you know,
we were gonna decide who to send, this guy just went and did it with
money. That is his last penny.
Now imagine what he what he got with us.
This is what you call compassion. This is what you call doing
something for others. Whether you are a great animal or not, every
one of us can use the ability that Allah has given us. And the way
you do this, is you do something with your identity. For example,
let's just say that you're a solicitor. And of course you
charge solicitors for your time. We just can't understand that
they're not really doing anything. This is writing a few letters, but
what do they charge? They're not making anything, right? We just
want that they should be free. But they they've spent a lot of money
and they've spent a lot of effort. Understanding these things. That's
why they charge. So if you're a solicitor
Well, a few cases in a year.
That's your Sonata. That's your contribution. If you're a painter,
you're charging people. You see this somebody who needs some help
you paint them. You're a carpenter, you're a taxi driver.
So
I had a friend who had a taxi and limousine business used to work
for a limousine taxi business, which was a family business in New
Jersey taking people into Manhattan.
So after that, there was a problem with the business. He had to leave
and he went, he went for an interview with IBM. So when he sat
in that when he got into the building, he saw this guy, guy
said, Hey, how are you everything right, Ibrahim? How are you? So
good. This guy was is a guy who he had taken a few times for free
because the guy told me the story that I'd lost my job is that on
the other, whatever. And this guy decided to take him for a few
rides he gave me for free just helping him out. Now this guy is
in trouble. He goes for an appointment for an interview in
IBM. It gets into the door. He meets this guy. Hey, Brian, what
are you doing here? Yesterday I've come here for for an interview. So
immediately this guy he goes and tells the interviewer. He says
something to him. He wins he gets the you know he gets the job.
Right? That's rewarding the wall but there's reward from Allah
subhanaw taala there's one word from Allah subhanho wa Taala is
rewarding. Your children will get
It those who are compassionate that Allah subhanaw taala will
give them rewarding their children. So whatever you're
doing, it doesn't matter what you're doing. If you're a teacher,
when you charge for your teaching, do some teaching for free, go and
contribute to tuition classes, if they hold them in the masjid or
somewhere else, whatever you're doing, whatever you're doing, do
some part of it for free. Even whether you're the greatest of the
Allah or whether you are, you know, wherever, whatever you're
doing, I'm talking to the women who are listening as well.
Whatever you're doing, but you must ask Allah for Toby you don't
you know? Lester modernists.
Right? He's a teacher of us. And I, he's related to me as well. And
I've known him for many, many years before he became successful
like this used to teach in darkroom. And Barry. I remember
when he first went to Leicester, and he started the academy and
everything. Once we went and we asked him for, we asked him for
advice. And this is what he said. He said that every night before
going to sleep after he showed me to the gods of salted Hydra and
ask Allah subhanaw taala, to accept you for the service of his
need.
Now you see what kind of service is taking from him that no more
than five to 700 to 1000 people are doing it company in place,
young youthful people. The first year he did that, I think it was
70 youth for the last 10 days when there were no programs like this.
You had one program, everybody would go to it. Now there's a
program every week.
Right? It's because you're asking Allah for tofi So ask Allah to
accept you even if you want the last legs of your life. Even if
you think you can't do something, Allah can make you do something
and can accept you because there's a hadith that I want to leave us
with. The hadith says the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
that whatever ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada hopes, sorry, whoever Allah
subhanaw taala wishes well with our ascended level or another
version says, when you read it now be clear is that level or maturity
level be higher on our cell level and the sahaba? They asked Lama
Ashley, who ya rasool Allah, what does this mean? Right? Whoever
Allah subhanaw taala intends good with Asana who, which means he
sweetens his deal. He uses him for his service. Arsenal means honey,
so it's like he makes he sweetens the deal for him how he says
before his death, Allah gives him the trophy to do something by
which the ceremony people will be pleased with him. And thus, they
will be a means to offer him afterwards and sadaqa jariya. So
it doesn't matter who we are what we are man or woman, older, young,
realize your potential. Try to do something for Allah subhanaw taala
ask Allah for tobique ask Allah for divine guidance. And stop
being self selfless or selfish, and be so selfless, try to do
something for others try to donate some of your time, your effort,
compassion, and see that Allah subhanaw taala accepts you,
because it may be very late for many of us to now go and become
irrelevant
in a formalized sense. But that doesn't mean you have to remain
back. There was a person in Leicester, who died some years
ago, about four or five years ago. And they say in his janazah you
had more people then you had so many people that it was as though
a great article died. Right now, why did you go to a Janaza prayer?
Is it because they're going to take a register? And you're going
to be like, Absolutely, you're going to be missing? No, you go
because Allah put something in your heart. Why would you feel
like going to this janazah took two days ago, bhootish appears on
call me and he says I'm in London. I said, What are you doing? He
said, I'm going to visit the parents of that doctor who died in
Syria. Wow. Allah has given tofi Allah has given the love of this
man for his shahada that he got in Syria, in sha Allah, right to
people from all over the country to come. And to Tanzania. Isn't
that a sign of success? Is it? Is it a sign of success that people
are honoring you in this dunya while you're alive? And then they
forget you and your death? Or is it that when you die, people will
remember you? Is it that is it that when in my mind medical
humbled, passed away, but that came to stop still, the police had
to be called in to negotiate the traffic because there were 800,000
men who came for this janazah and 40,000 women came out of the
houses which follies during his funeral. Women did not go out for
funerals. But these are 40,000 women, this is what a stadium
would fill. That's how many women came out for his janazah Can you
imagine that? That's what you call a sign of acceptance. Today, when
this man in I believe it was less than when he died people came from
all over why did they because he was known to go and help you
wherever he was, he would go and help them. So this gave the love
Allah subhanaw taala gave him the love this is all based on a hadith
of Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam which says that when Allah
subhanaw taala begins to love somebody because of certain things
people do.
When Allah begins to love him, Allah calls do you realize a lot?
And he says to Gibreel Yeah, God, I love this person. Can you
You love him as one. So she really begins to love this man, or this
woman, whoever it is, right. And, you know, many times we speak as
if the women don't exist. And women, they just feel like they
just have to cook at home. No, you have a connection with Allah
subhanho wa Taala as well, this applies to everybody, you have to
realize that this applies to everybody, you should be also
aspiring to get closer to Allah subhanho, wa Taala and tofield.
There are women among the Sahaba among the Sahaba years, who are
responsible for the conversion of many. And it was one who was, you
know, used to go and convert the women. One one woman one.
I forget her name, she used to go on, converted and finally they
found out who this was, was converting all of these people,
and then they persecuted her. They were on a journey and they kept
her without food for a number of days in water. And on one occasion
it happened that she was totally like family, she was like seeing
things. And Allah subhanho wa Taala gave up to drink a lot when
everybody was asleep at lunchtime, Allah subhanho wa Taala gave a
drink from the unseen when when they will walk up, they found that
she had been hydrated. They thought she thought that somehow
she had gotten out of her straps and gone and taken some water but
when they checked on the water supply, it was it was it had not
diminished at all. That's when they realized that a miracle
happened and then they will be coming soon as well. Right so
women can do as much as men, because guidance and Tofik is in
the hands of Allah subhanaw taala he gives it to whomever he wishes.
So ask Allah for Tofik ask Allah for tofi and ask Allah to accept
us in some way or the other for the sake of this Deen to accept us
for the service of his Deen in whatever way shape or form. And
this is the kind of inspiration that we want to give out our
children as well. Right give our children as well because that is
what's going to give us success in sha Allah in the hereafter. Allah
subhanaw taala accept from all of us, Allah accept us all in some
way, shape or form. Allah give us the burden that Allah grant is
Cambodia for the company that he has given us and do not leave us
to just stray around the world doing nothing, doing nothing and
just enjoying the world and doing nothing whatsoever. Just because
you work for Allah subhanho wa Taala doesn't mean you will lose
enjoyment. You have to realize it's another nother fantasy, to do
something for the sake of Allah, you will feel much more fulfilled,
you'll still be able to enjoy, you'll still be able to have your
barbecues and have family and you know, have friends and things like
that, but it's just going to be done slightly differently. Right
is enjoyment. Enjoyment is is something of the mind, which
anybody can have. And if Allah gives you enjoyment is going to be
better than any artificial enjoyment that you can have for
yourself. Allah subhanho wa Taala except from all of us
and in Hungary