Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How to Attain Intense Love for Allah
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So we're talking about the love of Allah. Now. I know it's Sunday
evening, right? It's been a busy week. But I'm going to
need some interaction from you. I'm going to ask you some
questions. And I want some answers. Okay, what's your name
little boy?
Ibrahim, and you
he brought him in Amara Okay, good stuff. And what's your name?
Zecharia.
So I'm going to need some interaction from you. Firstly,
Allah subhanahu wa taala speaks about
in the Quran, Allah, the verse is that it says that there are people
who adopt
gods besides Allah subhanaw taala. So every human being, its
inherent, built into our system to submit to something,
to glorify something, and to consider something to be to be
something that you would submit to. If it's not God, then they
submit to money, they submit to football, maybe even write and do
crazy things. It's what are you going to do crazy, some people
submit to Apple,
not to an apple, but to Apple. So they will, if you can stand
outside a
store, I think people have stopped doing that now because there's no
more innovation anymore, right? But if you can stand outside a
whole night to get just the first phone, even though you can get it
a few days later. Then mashallah you really think that that is
something very, very important for you. So that's what people submit
to things.
Now, Allah subhanho wa Taala says that there are people who adopt
and take besides Allah God's, and they love them. This is the
interesting but they love them.
They express love for them, as you could only express for Allah. What
does that mean?
Love is a very important idea. Okay, so we're going to need to
understand love. Then Allah says,
Those people who believe they are most intense and strongest in
their love for Allah. So we're going to try to understand this,
right? So just stay with me.
So the first question is the way Allah describes the people who
believe people who have Eman maltman are people who love Allah
most intensely and strongly.
If you love Allah most intensely and strongly, then you're willing
to do anything for, for Allah. Because love is one of those
things, that if you love something, you're willing to make
every sacrifice for that thing. Otherwise, it's not really pure
love. Love, they say is the only emotion that when you have it
properly, you will be in your most selfless state, you won't be
selfish anymore. For your beloved, you're willing to sacrifice
everything of yours, your time, your money, your happiness, just
to make them happy. The love is the only one that extends you out
like that and makes you forget yourself. Love is the only emotion
that can do that for you. Unless you do it for another reason,
which you know, you're doing it for that reason, right? This is
the thing where it forces you to do that.
So now Allah says that the people who believe that's how they are
with Allah, is that true?
Is this verse Correct?
Do you think Muslims many, do you think they are most intense in
their love for Allah compared to everything else?
Do you think that's the case?
How many of you think that's the case?
You think that's the case? Okay. Only one person.
Two people. You don't Don't be ashamed. I mean, come on. I mean,
I'm not taking an exam, but please feel free to speak Keithley can't
be so. Come on. Don't Don't let Keithley down.
Anybody else think that?
So you think that's the case that the every believer is most intense
in their love for Allah, I wish that was the case.
We'd have no problems if they were mostly in love with Allah, then
everything would be so perfect. But that is where Allah wants us
to be. Now the question I'm going to ask another question is how
many of us have ever in their life in a moment of being alone, said
to Allah, Ya Allah, I love you.
Oh Allah, I love you. How many of us have ever said that?
That's 1-234-567-8910 Mashallah. Not bad. Love is not a bad word.
It's not only it's not only reserved for girlfriend and
boyfriend, okay? We're talking about pure love here.
However, out of, I don't know, 50 100 people, only 10 People have
said that.
But the verse is saying that the people who believe they are most
intense in the love for Allah, I can't see the sisters, but I'm
assuming that's a similar, you know, similar kind of proportion.
So now what what we want to get to the bottom of today is how can we
become most in love with Allah?
What would that mean? How we attain that? And what do we get
for doing that? That's where we want to go. We ask Allah subhanaw
taala to help us. How do we become like that? Many.
We are at different stages of life before we die. Hopefully this
verse is true for us. That I am one of those that we can easily
say yeah, Allah, I love you.
Right.
There was a woman hasn't bacilli Rahmatullah, one great Willies of
Allah, friends of Allah. He's going around the Kaaba in tawaf,
and he sees this young woman and she's,
she's going through some love poetry.
Right? There's love poetry. She's calling out to her beloved, I love
you so much this, that and the other and you know what he did? He
got angry. And he said that why in this pure place around the Kaaba,
you are thinking of Your Beloved, he thought, it's talking about
some boyfriend or something, or her husband.
You're in front of Allah as housing, you're thinking of your
boyfriend or your husband.
And she turned around, she got very angry and she said, Do you
know who I'm talking to? I'm talking to Allah.
She was actually talking to Allah subhanho wa taala. She was
expressing her love at his house. What else are you gonna do? You
know, when people go around the Kaaba. Why do you do that? In
Hajj? Have you ever thought, Is it because you're so unfit? Okay, at
least come here and do some exercise. Go around seven times.
Is that why you do with tawaf around the Kaaba.
Why do you do it? What's the purpose of going around the Kaaba,
you don't get anything out of that.
The purpose is that when you love something,
have you noticed that when you love something, you want to be as
close to it as possible. You want to be with it, you're always
thinking about it. If you genuinely love something, you want
to be with it.
When you love something, you ultimately want to hug that person
if you love them. It's just human emotion. Humans are like that.
When they love something, they want to hug them. You want to hug
your parents. husbands want to hug their wives wives, their husbands,
you want to hug your children. Anybody you love a good friend,
you want to hug them? That's what we do. You shake hands and if you
really want to show your love, then you hug them.
That's what you do.
People they kiss when they love somebody. Right? I mean, you kiss
him on the forehead, you kiss some, you know, on the cheek, UK,
some on the lead. This depends on who it is. Allah subhanho wa Taala
has given us the ability to go around his house. He doesn't live
in the house, but it's dedicated to him. So we worship Allah here.
We fast for him, we do Salah for him in the messages. But
ultimately, every movement, every believer because they love Allah,
or they should love Allah, they eventually want to go to his
house, the Kaaba. He doesn't live there. But because it's his
special house. This is also a house of Allah. But that's a
special house. So they go there because they can't go inside. And
even if you go inside the that's not the purpose of it, you go
around it. For example. You may you may or may not have
experienced this, that when you love something, let's just say
that somebody you love lives in a particular area. You're going past
to the area, what will you think about?
Let's say that somebody lives in a town on the motorway on the M one
and you're going past and you see the name of that town, who are you
going to think of
You're gonna think of that person, right? It just reminds you
everything. So some people if they can't get to their beloved,
they'll at least go to the near their house and walk around it. At
least I'm close to the house, let me just touch the wall of that
house.
You understand? I can't get to her. But let me at least touch a
wall. Even that's good enough. And there's some mashallah some
lovers, they look at the moon. And they imagine that their lover is
looking at the moon, and their gazes are going to meet in the
moon at the moon.
And they are looking at the moon, they think in my love, I must be
looking at the moon as well and it gives them happiness. Love is a
crazy idea.
Right? Love is a very powerful idea. Okay? So that's why we go
there. And Allah says, go around my house, out of love for me.
Otherwise, why else would you do it? Take off your garments, put on
the session around garments for men. For women, they put on their
simple Iran garments as well. You know, in whichever however, they
want to dress with that. And you go around the house of Allah
thinking, I'm going around your house, it is not to get fit.
The purpose is the love of Allah. And if you get lucky and you
really want to go close, and you want to HUD something because you
love Allah, you cannot learn you can't hug Allah because he is
beyond all of that. Allah has given us David, the prophets,
Allah, some showed us he went to the militarism.
You know, the world doesn't miss. You know, that place between the
Blackstone and the door of the Kaaba, where the police is usually
standing. That part is called the Maltese and the province of Austin
went there, put his chest to it, literally like hugging the place
and his cheek and he cried to Allah subhanaw taala praying to
Him, that is a place where your Dwarves will be accepted for sure.
That that's what you can go and do down there. Allah has given us the
Sharia has given us these abilities to do that. And if you
want to do some more, get to the Bloodstone if you're lucky and you
can kiss it.
You can't kiss Allah in that way. But at least he's given us
something to kiss.
Because that's human emotion. This is what humans do. Throughout
history, humans like to hug and kiss to express their love and
affection. You can't do that with Allah has given us something to
replace it. It's Hajj is a journey of love. If you don't understand
it, you will go for HUD your HUD will be counted as you've done
Hajj, but you may have not connected yourself to Allah
subhanaw taala the purpose of Hajj is to actually get close to Allah.
May Allah make our Hajj like that our next Hajj like that, may Allah
make our passage like that as well. Right now, let us understand
something, we can't get this right unless you understand what love
is.
So now I'm going to ask you What does love mean?
Somebody in Keithley, please describe love for me, define love
for me. What does love mean? I want a definition of love. Go
ahead. Muhammad qiqihar 35. If that makes more sense to you?
What is the definition of love?
Something that forces you that's the output and consequence of it.
It's not the definition as well. But thank you very much. All these
non non Keithley people as a precedent and
managers, Manchester All right, come on. What does love mean?
Definition of love? Yes. Again, Lancashire is not trunky if the
over sorry.
completely selfless. It makes you sad. It's an output. It's a
consequence of it again. It's That's what love does to you.
Makes you selfless. So it's an output. It's a fruit of it. It's
not love itself.
Okay, just to move on to the night. Key three people, anybody
otherwise that have somebody from Peston. I just noticed somebody
from Preston they'll answer anybody else. Yes by
Allahu Akbar god yeah. When you love somebody mashallah you from
Keith me
myself yeah, whatever. Okay, simple. Love is a love means to
listen to incline.
And then it has more stages but inclined towards beauty
is getting a bit more complicated but please bear with me, right?
Stay with me.
Love means to incline towards beauty.
Okay.
This isn't easier inclining towards beauty.
What does beauty mean?
We have to figure out what beauty means to understand what love
means. So somebody defined for me beauty
yes, that you're just saying Allah's creation is beautiful,
right? That's what you're saying. But that's just an example of
beauty. I want to know what beauty is defined as yes, we're getting
somewhere we're getting somewhere we just need a bit more Mashallah.
It's what is the
Tea How do you define something as beautiful? What is beautiful? How
Why do you say something is beautiful? Yes.
Yeah, that's a bit subjective. Sometimes, you know, criminals,
they would look at something ugly. Right? The dung beetle will look
at dung and say that's beautiful.
But that's not what the majority of the beauty it has to be defined
by something or the majority of people who think yes, go ahead.
Something perfect mashallah, we're getting somewhere but what is
perfection?
Right? Yes.
Only Allah is perfect. So that's an example mashallah of the
beauty. Okay. Beauty, sorry. inclination towards we're getting
somewhere. So Beauty means perfection. Balance, read the real
word is balance, proportion, equilibrium. Sorry, these are
weird terms for some of you, but some of the younger ones
equilibrium balance. I'll give you an example. Why do you buy a
certain phone over another one? Because of its balance its
sleekness, right, the way it looks, its shape, its size, its
weight, what it does, it has balanced in all of those things.
Why do you call somebody beautiful? Oh, he is so beautiful.
She is stunningly beautiful. Why? Because of the features,
internationally throughout most ethnicities and backgrounds and
cultures, there is a understanding of beauty that is uniform among
everybody whether you are Chinese, oriental, Indian, African,
Caucasian, there is a certain type of a person, right? Who is going
to be considered beautiful in all of those cultures. It's exactly
how where is the nose as compared to where is the lips? Where the
lips are? Where the nose is? Exactly how much distance is the
eyes, the cheek bones, all of that. In every culture, they think
it's the same? What everybody would agree, yes, there will be
some people will think a certain individual who the majority would
not consider beautiful, they'll call them about subjective beauty.
But what real beauty is the balance in anything and
everything. In architecture, there's a balance.
That's why anybody looking at that will like it will appreciate it.
There's a balance in everything that Allah has created. That is
beauty proportionate.
Something means proportionate and equilibrium. So sorry, it has
gotten a bit complicated. I'll be I'll make it easy again. Okay, so
that's the first thing. Love is an inclination towards that.
Love editing. Now what is love? Exactly is an inclination towards
beauty. Right? How does it work? In the Arabs have this so refined?
That they have at least 27 or 28? names and words for the different
stages of love?
This is amazing. What do you mean stages of love? This is how love
works.
Something is beautiful. It's been there? You see it?
You see many things, don't you? You see that? And you're like,
huh, I noticed that.
Let's just say there's 10 cars, and you notice one of them and
they stick in your mind? Why would they stick in your mind? Right? So
you notice it.
Then next stage, you appreciate it. That's nice. You appreciate
it. You start liking it,
you become inclined towards it. You want it?
You want it.
Everything else becomes pale in your sight. You only want that one
now you become obsessed with it. Can you see the different stages,
it starts off with noticing it and then it just moves on?
Then it blinds. So love blinds and defends you from everything else
and it also defends you and blinds you from its own defects.
Okay, so that's what love is the stages of love. And Allah in the
Quran has mentioned multiple words representing these different
stages of love. That's what's amazing. It's really I mean, I
don't have time to go into all that detail right now. It could
get a bit boring for some people. But what I want to move on to say
now is that have you ever intended a buying a car?
So give you an example. I was looking at when in London. Now
they got in Birmingham as well. You had to get rid of your diesel
cars beyond a certain age and petrol cars beyond a certain age
because otherwise they were going to start charging you have to be
you less compliant. They were going to start charging 2012 pound
a day if you carried on with those cars I had to get rid of and find
a new car. I hate buying new cars because it's it just takes too
long. Right. So now I'm looking for a new car and there were two
that I identified
Within my price range,
these two, they're good. They're seven seaters, and so on. I didn't
know any of others, so I hadn't noticed anything else. I wasn't
sure about these two either. Then somebody told me oh, there's this
third company, which I would have thought would have been too
expensive for me. But I saw that it was actually very similar
price. So I noticed it.
Then after that, I wasn't inclined towards it. I just noticed that a
friend's friend had one. So I went to see it. I took a test drive, I
found that all of its features and its gimmicks and specs. And now I
started liking it. So now slowly, slowly, I said, I don't want the
other two. I want this one.
Can you see how I'm now? Moving away from the others? I want this
one. Do you know what happened? Then?
I go out on the streets and I suddenly start seeing them
everywhere.
They didn't exist yesterday. They will not on the streets. I never
noticed that particular model. Suddenly they're everywhere. All
sorts of colors. Mashallah, you know, the company they found that
I wanted, now they started, they just pull them, they just push
them out on the street? Is that what happened?
That happens with a lot of products, you decide I want that
phone, suddenly everybody has that fallen. Or you notice at least
that's what love does. When you want something, it blinds you to
other things, and then you see it everywhere. That is the reason why
we can't see Allah's effects everywhere is because we don't
really know him.
We don't know him enough. We have not becoming blind to him. We have
not chosen him, we have not been blinded to other things. That's
why we don't notice Allah subhanaw taala
that's the simple reason why we cannot be well Lavina Arman are
ashamed to have been Lilla that the people who are most in
believers are the most in intense in their love for Allah.
Right? So when you start loving now,
just something relevant here, right? Have you have you ever
experienced where you became emotionally attached to something,
you thought you love something, but you can't have it? So you feel
really bad, and you trying to want that thing, but you can't have it?
It could be a toy. It could be a house, it could be four guys, it
could be a girl. For a woman, it could be a man, you know, there's
somebody but it's not going to work for you.
Have you noticed that? Sometimes you emotionally attached. So I've
got a friend who's got a PhD in love. He's an expert in love. He's
got a book called Loving the Holy Quran. Right? I asked him, I said,
Look, we're dealing with this all the time where we got people who
are fall for something, someone, they can't have them, because
maybe it's different cultures? Or maybe she's somebody else's
already or whatever it is. How do you deal with that? Yeah, I asked
him, How does somebody who's attached to something but can't
have it? How do you detach yourself?
You know what he told me?
He said
that you think of the bad points and the bad qualities or the bad
the defects of that thing? And that will detach you Subhanallah
what does that mean? Now remember, everything in this world has good
qualities and bad qualities. Every one of us here, every single
individual and if we recognize this, we are successful, if we
don't recognize this, we're a failure and a loser in this world.
The losers in this world don't recognize this. That's all it is.
Okay, everybody, in this world, Allah every human being Allah
creates with a set of qualities.
And a set of challenges. Just take a family of three, four or five
children. Okay? Take a family of three children, same parents,
right. Same parents, same food, same nurture, same upbringing, one
of them is going to be a bit sharper than the other one. One of
them is more generous than the other one one will share his last
suite. And other one will not Would you share your last week?
Just be honest. You're not sure what about you know? Alhamdulillah
thanks for being honest. What about you? Would you share your
last week? No. What about you
know, come on, give me a generous person man. MashAllah Desikan love
him here, right? Just naturally, some people mashallah they're very
clever, but they're stingy. Some people are laid back, some people
get angry faster, and they all bought brand systems, one gets
more angry than another one. That's a set of qualities and a
set of challenges. And our job. The people who are successful in
this world have found their qualities and they've used them to
make money to live in this world to deal with matters to get to the
top to get sick. How many people here consider themselves
successful to a certain degree?
hamdulillah Thank you very much. One, two, only two people consider
themselves successful three.
I mean, I do. I don't mean become Bill Gates.
Right or Steve Jobs. I don't mean that
I mean successfully in the sense that you've got a family, you're
looking after yourself got a decent job or business, you got a
house you're getting on in life. Come on, man. How many of you are
successful? Thank Allah if you are Don't Don't be because the only
opposite of that is losers. Okay? Right, how many of you are losers,
then
I mean, I would have expected everyone to hand up the the, those
who are successful, or those who find their qualities and use them.
But you need one more, you have to find your defects as well and
control them. If you're a person who gets angry a lot, you're
probably messing up with your partner's with your with your
spouse or whatever. If you're stingy, you are causing issues,
and so on. And we have to teach our children the same, we have to
find the knowledge on what each of their qualities are and help them
recognize that and use that. Find out what their weakness is. And
help them overcome that. Now, what was his advice? Think of the bad
qualities, you don't have to go and tell them about it and
criticize them you don't have to think on for yourself. Oh, she's
like that she's like this, she's so you will slowly start
detaching. I'll give you an example of where I use this. I was
looking for to buy a house.
And finally I found a house that mashallah seemed to take a lot of
boxes, the best in the price range I could find, right. So I fell in
love with it, I noticed that I became inclined to it, I became
obsessed with it, which was a big mistake don't ever become
obsessed,
was a big mistake. It was all done. The deal was nearly done. He
agreed the seller, I started, you know, you have to do some
searches, and you have to stop paying some money to get the ball
rolling. And the paperwork. So I started doing that suddenly I get
a call from him a week or a week or two later, is that I'm really
sorry. But my estate agent is telling me that there's another
offer that's had come in for 20,000 pounds more, and he's gonna
have to, you know, and basically, he's trying to do you still want
it give me more than 20,000 I can't do that. I can't play like
that. I don't have that kind of money, you know. So I lost it. And
I felt really bad.
Right? Now, I started looking again, two months, found another
house, that was the best I could find again, not as good as this
one. Right. But it was the best I could find. I've less lost that
one. So let me not cry over there. Let me find another house. Now
what happens in this case is that there were a lot of good
qualities. But I focused on the negatives. It had a small front
passage.
In my view, it had a small as like, yes, it's got a small front
pass, but it's fine. I can deal with it. It's called these other
because you take
dominant qualities over some defects. But I kept the defects in
mind. This time I was the highest bidder. I made a we made the offer
on a Thursday, I think expect to get an answer on a Friday, but no
answer. And then on Monday, so please give us some days this was
a family living there for 4050 years, they were finding it
difficult to move out. So Monday, Tuesday finally on Wednesday.
You know what happened? They said
I was the highest bidder at this time. We said sorry, the owner has
decided not to sell anymore.
And you know what? This time was much easier. I said It's alright.
It's got a small passage.
It's okay.
You understand? You manage your emotions like that don't get
obsessed with anything but Allah Alhamdulillah then the first one
came back, the first house came back. That was the reason for
this.
This the first house came back because the other person that
offered 20 psi causing him issues. He got very angry with them or
upset with them came back to me. I said, Okay, I'll buy but at the
original price, I'm not gonna give you a you said fine. He knew that
was a series by handle I got that one. Right. The point is that are
you in love with somebody you can't have start thinking of their
defects. Don't go and tell them that. Just start thinking she's
like that she's like this and so on. And then you will see that
it'll be easier for you to detach.
In the first phase don't even get emotionally attached to something
that you can't have anyway, that's the wrong thing to do.
So that's love. Okay, another aspect before we get back to Allah
subhanaw taala discussion, another aspect
since we got a lot of young people here as well.
You want to get married.
So
you find somebody that dresses very well.
And you think I love her. That's it. I want her as my wife. I'm
talking because I've got men in front of me. I'm talking from a
man's perspective but the same thing applies for the sisters.
Right? So you think that's who I want.
Look how she dresses or it may not be her dress way. Maybe it's she's
beautiful
because dressing
Well, he's also a beauty, isn't it? Right? Or it's maybe the way
she looks? Or maybe it's how much money he has. That's the
attractive feature.
I want to get married to him. Do you know that there's, in some of
our cultures, they think they don't know what marriage means in
law. Sorry. They don't know what love means in marriage. So you
know what their criteria is? Because he basically why they get
such as you can look, at least you got the money. Sorry.
Basically, because they don't understand the concept of loving
marriage because they just do marriage because a cultural thing
and to have children because you have to do it stop people from
saying, Wait, you're married, they say, at least then just find
somebody with money. And you should be
you'll, you'll be well have them. separate issue. What I'm trying to
say is what exactly is love? Love is an inclination towards the good
qualities in something because they've got balanced qualities,
right? What usually happens sometimes.
I might like, the shape of this bottle. And I might when you got
five bottles of water companies? Which one are you going to pick if
you know you go to a foreign country, I'm probably going to
pick the one that has the decent price, a balanced price and the
way it looks. Then I taste the I was like, Man, this now it tasted
the other one that was better. You look for things, right qualities.
Now, do you ever buy a phone just because of the way it looks?
What do you buy a phone for? What else do you look at?
You look at the features, battery life,
processor screen, etc, etc. You look for a package of qualities.
That's what I'm trying to say.
You look for a package or qualities, right? You're looking
for a car? Do you just buy car because it's an Aston Martin.
That's not what you're supposed to do, because they keep breaking
down.
So he's got one quality is gonna name so you buy because of that.
And then you find out hey, that's not the purpose of having a car
just because it looks nice. So now let's think of it this way. A guy
marries a girl because of the way she looks. That's all he's figured
out. I want the most stunning.
Okay, fine. Okay, so now you get married. So what you do is you
take this girl, and you put her on a on a platform, a stage in your
front room, and you just look at her 24 hours a day, because that's
what I bought her for.
Is that why you get married to somebody because of the way they
look so that you can just look at them all day?
What do you need, then you need a package of qualities.
She got married to him because he's got money.
Nothing else. He's ugly. For example, to her least may not be
ugly, but to her he is just money makes him you have to look when
you when you want to love something, get a package of
qualities, not just one quality.
You understand? You look for package of qualities. Now, let's
go back to Allah subhanaw taala.
Allah and His messenger are the only entities in this world who
don't have any defects.
They don't have any defects, or they've only got qualities.
Only Allah and His Prophet, Muhammad Sallallahu sallam.
They're the only perfect beings meaning only prophets and God.
They're the only ones who are perfect, they have no defects.
Now, what does that mean? Remember, love is an inclination
towards good qualities and a balance of qualities. Which means
that when the way the reason I bought that car is I learned about
it.
And I learned its qualities. So that's why I became inclined
towards it. If I can learn about the qualities of Allah I can I
will have to become inclined to Allah. There's nothing because
that's what humans do. They become inclined to qualities. They don't
they can't help it. And there are no defects so you can't even
extract yourself. You can't there's nothing with Allah
subhanaw taala to push you away. Everything is beautiful.
That's why the Olia of Allah the true lovers of Allah.
They are head over heels in love with Allah subhanho wa Taala
because they've learned about Allah.
Now how do we learn about Allah so that we can love him? How do we
become the believers who are going to be most intense in their love
for Allah subhanho wa Taala that's what we want to find out today.
First thing is just the way I found out about the cat is a
researched when you're looking for something What do you do you do
reviews right? You look at reviews, what do other people say
about it? Have you ever gone and look for reviews of Allah subhanaw
taala
Have you ever checked on Google Allah, but you know, give me some
reviews?
Have you ever done that? Where you're going to find reviews of
Allah? Sorry? In the lovers of Allah see what they say those
people who really the only or the friends of Allah, right? You're
going to find out what it really means.
That's the only way you're going to find out. You're gonna go to
paradise. Have you ever read reviews about paradise? Or are you
like that guy from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh or whatever?
He just wants to come to London. He wants to come to London. I
don't care where where do you want to go in London? You know what?
Put me on a seashore somewhere. Just get me onto the onto the
coast of London. That's what I want to be like England is London
for them. And if they call the whole thing, London, just
parachute me down anywhere. I don't care. I just want to be in
London. I want to get out of this hellhole they say
is that our approach to Paradise is want to be in paradise. I don't
care what it looks like. Do you know that there's multiple layers
of paradise? Multiple types of paradise.
Our approach to our faith is not detailed. It's too general. We
believe in it. But we don't really have the details. And that's why
we're weak in our faith.
Ultimately, isn't that way we can have a why can we be distracted by
Facebook, and Tik Tok and all of these things and let Namaaz be
missed and Salah be missed. Because we don't love that enough.
And we love this more. You're we're occupied with whatever we're
most in love with and what we're most inclined to.
And the thing is that the solution to this is very easy. Just learn
more about Allah.
Because if you learn more about Allah, you will get hooked.
There's no way you can't be non Muslims have started reading the
Quran.
And they just fell in love with Allah that wow, who is this
individual? Look where he talks. He talks so much sense talks
directly speaks directly to my heart. Makes a lot of sense. Okay,
now I'm going to just speak about the four
ways of getting to know Allah. There's multiple ways but four
ways of getting to know Allah is very simple. Number one,
get a translation of the Quran. For those of us who are not Arab,
but donors and Arabic, right. And start reading Allah's words. If
you want to know Allah, He is most alive in the Quran. What I mean by
most alive in the Quran is you can see him, you can really see who
Allah is because he's speaking, he tells you who he is. He describes
himself. He describes what he wants. He describes what he does,
he describes what he loves what he hates when he gets angry on what
he how he rewards. His describes events of how he dealt with the
past people how he gave them his he tells us what he's prepared in
the future for those who do good for those who do bad and he
describes semi on the Alim on Cuddyer on mokdad Iran, of foreign
Kahan Latif, when, you know, Allah describes himself.
And the reason Allah created us in the first place was so that he
could be recognized, otherwise, our creation, and our actions do
nothing for him. He is perfect as he was from before. We have not
enhanced him and upgraded him in any way whatsoever. But he loves
it when he loves it when somebody recognizing Him because that's why
He created us. There's a guy in hellfire Muslim, who had to be in
Hellfire for some sins he committed he, he is just punished
for something and after the end of that one punishment, he says
didn't Allah promised me X, Y and Zed?
Allah immediately says, Go get that guy out because he knows me.
That's how powerful knowing Allah is that that's why Allah tells us
to praise him Al hamdu, lillahi, rabbil, Alameen Rahmani Raheem
multiple times a day.
Allah just wants to be known and the best way to know Him is
through the Quran.
They are his words. Unfortunately, we have mashallah people,
fortunately, who have completed multiple Quran in their life in
Ramadan for Quran, five Quran 10 Quran, but they've never in their
whole life.
Understood what a lie say.
So I'm going to ask another question. How many of us here
right have read the Quran from beginning to end with meaning to
understand what Allah is saying, at least once in their life?
Mashallah 123
I'm not talking about the scholars in turn for 566 out of
Yeah, transmission, whatever. Just, I want to know what my God
is saying to me. I want to read them. I wanna I want to know what
he's saying to me. Allah has sent every one of us an email, or a
message with the Quran.
We just haven't bothered opening it.
And it's really sad.
On the hereafter, we're gonna say, Yeah, you know what, I did receive
that email. I had it. I had it.
Still had in my house. I just didn't bother opening checking
out. What happened recently is that there was a before the
Israeli aggression started.
I was invited to a conference in another country. So I have agreed,
I said, Yes, it's relating to move these and if does and things like
that. So I should probably go. And I said, But I'm gonna tell you,
within a week or so, exactly which day I want to come Sunday or
Monday, conference starts on Tuesday, that might just go a day
early. And then after that, this whole Israeli aggression started,
and I didn't feel like traveling or whatever. And then I was like,
I need to tell them that I don't want to come. Now, usually, they
will be on your case that hey, when you told us to give you a
date, to give us a date, when's your date? What they did was they.
So it's,
it's when is it it's Friday now before the program. And I was just
checking my junk folder, and I see a message from them.
Now, I thought, I'll check it up later. So I took it out of my junk
and put it into my inbox. And I say, I was busy. So I said, I'll
check it later. I thought it's just the forward, you know,
because the conference is getting closer, they're gonna give you
timetables, and things like that they put me on a list, then on, I
haven't checked it, then on Sunday, I get another message from
them about the schedule for the day. So I check that and then I
realize you know what, let me let me just check the other email. And
I check the other emails that have come two days before, it was a
business class ticket going leaving the next morning on Monday
morning at nine o'clock.
And this is about seven, eight o'clock in the evening.
I'm like, I'm not going I'm not going and they've bought the
ticket and everything. It's a nice business class ticket five star
hotel the and so on.
You guys should have asked me at least I told you I'm not gonna. So
I finally got the guy on WhatsApp. And I said, you know, I'm really
apologize. I've got something else that has come up and I you know, I
thought you guys would have confirmed with me I was gonna tell
you, I forgot to tell you about you. I thought you just booked my
ticket. So he says, Don't worry, don't worry.
Is it going to be like that in the hereafter? Here I could cancel it.
No problem, no harm done. Insha Allah. But there it's a big harm
because we we've not benefited from the direct message of Allah.
Even though we've read it so many times, you've never understood it.
Please go go get a Quran. A translation, at least once in our
life, understand what Allah is telling us not to give fatwas and
to become some big, pseudo scholar. Just to understand what
Allah said, and it's amazing, you will get hooked. Read a page a
day, two pages a day, just reflect, you will get hooked. You
will truly understand the purpose of this life, you will understand
how to cut through all of the chaos and confusion that you get
through all of the WhatsApp messages that you're getting
because you'll understand Allah directly. Very important. And this
is the downfall of the Muslims today. They don't know what their
God is saying to them.
We just randomly know through little Beyonds you must heard
something here heard something on a Friday heard something very
difficult. This is a big issue with our Muslim community is that
we've since mucked up these things we were young when we studied
Islam from a book by a teacher, we have not picked up another book
since then, to learn about Islam or we have not listened to a
proper series of lectures on a particular topic. We've listened
to random things. Juma. You don't even know what the Imam is going
to speak about in the next few months.
You understand?
Don't you have this desire? I want to know what my Allah says, the
Prophet sallallaahu Salam, have you read 40 of his Hadith? on any
subject? Let me go and find out what the previous lesson said on
this.
And believe me, you get hooked to the prophets of Allah Subhan Allah
subhanho wa taala. Once you start knowing more about them, you will
see his generosity and benevolence and kindness and everything. Okay,
that's the first thing. Number two,
very simple. The second way of knowing Allah, or another way of
knowing Allah is get a copy of the 99 names.
You know, the 90 names, they're just a package of names. By the
way, Allah has more names than that. There's some names in the
Quran that are not part of the 99 name. They just Allah prophesy
doesn't give us a package to understand Allah through. Go
through those, just read through them. And then pick out a few that
stand out for you relevant to your situation. Let's say you're going
through some difficulty. Some really complicated matter. You
will find the name they are Latif. So write that down and start using
it. When in your mindset. Yeah, Latifi allottee if you are Latif
make this Oltorf bynner make this easy for us. Be compassionate with
us. Treat us with your subtle kindness, etc. If you're dealing
with some forgiveness issue, you have a four year old or four year
half your relevant names. If you've got a
for example, let's just say that you have had a fall and you've got
a broken bone there's a relevant name to that yeah, job Bureau law.
Milka See Ya Jabbar. Oh, meander Jabiru of mill Cassia.
Oh, meander of the broken bone.
There's names for everything. And you know what? Let me tell you
something.
I don't know too many of you here. What's your name?
Daniela, that's your name. Now I can call you Daniel, you be like,
okay, he calls me by your name Hamdulillah. Now, you must have
other qualities and expertise in something. If I recognize those,
and then I call you out by those, would you not feel more validated?
That he knows me beyond my name. Everybody knows me by my name. But
man, this guy knows my qualities. He's validated me. You understand
what I'm saying? Right? You feel more validated. Allah wants to be
known. He likes to be praised. If we start calling on to him, right?
With multiple names, aren't we going to get better response from
him? I'll give you examples. He is there to respond by the way. I go
to teach.
It's a few miles away. And London traffic is crazy. So I go on a
bike. And the worst thing on a bike is if you've got high winds,
or if it's raining, it's really miserable to ride a bike in
marine. So I get out and I think the clouds are there. So I pray to
Allah I say Allahu Maha. Alina, whether Elena of Allah around me
and not upon me. Most of the time it it doesn't rain most of the
time.
With our little with our children, from the young age when they come
to you and say I'm hurting here. What we do straight away is we
read something a DUA, right? Bismillah Illa de la de Roon or
Allahumma robinus of Hebrew that's washy and the Shafi la Shiva Illa,
Shiva, Shiva and others are common, and we blow on them and
most of the time it gets better.
Placebo Effect God SIBO effect Call it what you want. It gets
better.
I'll give you a recent
if you have if I have a conflict with somebody or have a little
misunderstanding with somebody immediately Allahumma Elif been
awkward Rubina, Allahumma Salli, ala Dube, Nina, and you know, most
of the time it gets mended. Oh Allah reconcile
between our hearts and reform this matter between us reform it for
us, most of the time it gets cleared. I'll give you an example.
Some about 2015 2016 or 17, we produced a really beautiful copy
of a Haysville album, which is one of the most wonderful,
comprehensive books of two hours it was illuminated edition
just in Arabic.
And people started asking for a translation. So I got a
translation ready by 2021
the translations fully ready edited, ready to print but
I'm obsessed with design perfection. I have no perfection,
but I'm obsessed with design has to be beautiful. Right? I couldn't
settle on a design, how it's going to look so 22,021 2020 to 2023 in
the middle of this year, just after Ramadan I said enough is
enough. The book is ready. It needs to go out to the public.
But I can't set it on a design. I said What name should I call Allah
by?
So which name would you call Allah by if you want good design?
Mashallah, Jamil. Another one?
Yeah, he is this protector. That's not as relevant. What's relevant
to design. Consulting isn't. That was the name I thought Australian
was somewhere.
The sweet the one who fashions something who make who makes a
form of something. So I sat with my wife
on the screen, looking for the right background and so on,
because I wasn't able to be satisfied. Making this dua with
Allah's Name. Within five minutes. We had a design.
I'm not joking. We had five minutes we had a design and
hamdulillah the book got published. Although for two years
you were sitting there.
You understand what I'm saying? Allah is there to help call him
like for example, you're gonna have a paracetamol.
Right? You've got an ointment to put on no problem, do it, but say
yeah, Shafi at the same time, oh, cure,
or cure. I'll give you an example. I was a few years ago, I was in a
country for a conference. And we were waiting to have a meeting
with somebody. It was myself. And I was really honored to be in the
company of Mufti Taqi Usmani.
And Maulana Mahmood Madani who's the head of the Jimmy Tololo of
India, so three of us there, I had a severe stomach problem. I caught
some stomach bugs I was in pain in my stomach, you know, you know
when you have that indigestion or whatever it is, so I'm there
struggling around talking to them and Salim ala Muhammad Madani said
that if Mufti
to use money he puts his hand on your stomach and makes a DUA, you
will get better.
He said it as a joke. He said it as some bento, right? Mostly
turkey. So where is he you know, but it was a very casual kind of
gathering Alhamdulillah most data to use, I've said that he can do
it himself. You know, he can put his own hand and you can read the
Doyle get it, you can do it yourself.
So then I decided to join in the conversation I said, Yes, but the
DUA which is the fastest to be accepted is dua Oh ha Ibn Lila is
a dua of absent person for another person. If you make dua for
somebody who's not here, you're more likely going to be accepted
for somebody if you make a door in front of them, right? Because it's
more sincere. But he said, I'm not. I'm right in front of you.
There's a bit of ban then Allah bless him. He took his hand he put
it on my stomach. And he started reading for like two minutes. It
wasn't Alohomora openness. And he built that swish bit under Sheffy
law, she paid less she felt because she felt under law there
was suddenly it wasn't it was the other one. What is that? What's
the other dua for removal of pain, I forget it right now. He sat
there reading with his hand on my stomach, and Alhamdulillah about
two, three hours later, I was sorted Alhamdulillah these things
work, we just don't use them. They're not organically in our
life. Now to wrap this up, I want to give you a few examples, right?
You know, this love of Allah, we need to develop it. And our whole
life for our children will become easy how? The reason that we don't
notice Allah is because we don't know enough about him. We don't
know that he is behind everything. Otherwise,
if you start knowing Allah, you will start knowing His qualities,
you will become more beloved to him and everything else will
become less, there is no way that you can get rid of your addiction.
For different things that you we know is unhealthy. Unless you
replace it by the love of Allah. The simplest way to get rid of our
our obsessions, addictions and so on, is to replace it with the true
love and attachment to Allah subhanaw taala all of these things
will wane in your sight. If we can do this and expose our children to
this, our job with our children will become easier from a young
age. And if we haven't done so then start immediately start
talking about Allah. Allah needs to be mentioned multiple times.
For example, let's say we're eating.
We're eating right. And it's good food. You can say mashallah, you
can say, Oh, this is really good food. You made it as good as the
restaurant or whatever.
May Allah be thanked for this, may Allah be praised? Look what he
gives us.
Don't tell your kids.
Thank Allah. You can, but it's easier if they just see us so
grateful to Allah they'll pick it up.
If they see that anytime they have a pain we call Unto Allah Yeah.
Shafi we make a DUA, they'll start doing that themselves.
Get our children connected to Allah, in terms of why they pray.
Why do you pray? Do you understand you pray because you have to pray
because your parents the way to test our children see what they
pray for? Is when we're not there. Do they still pray? Are they still
concerned about their prayer, even if they pray late? If they are,
then they're doing it for Allah, otherwise, they're doing it for
us. Get that changed.
Develop a love for that for Allah subhanaw taala. And then things
will start moving and changing. For example, I'll give you another
example. Right? There's a kid he just is 1112 years old 1112. He
has just started secondary school.
And third time, by the time he comes on board, and he's going to
be finished. He's going to be ascertained in winter. So his
mother tells him that you need to find a place in the school to pray
your Lord.
It comes back home the second or third days mom says did you pray?
So he says no, I didn't pray should you be happier said
So here's another question. Let's start with who's who is sad that
he said that? That I did not pray. How many of you are sad?
Okay, that's majority of you are sad. Okay. How many of you are
happy you said that? Hola. Hola, como de la Vela. What's wrong with
you guys? You're happy that you didn't pray?
Okay, what about the rest of you? Are you happy? Sad? What are you?
The rest of you didn't put the hand up. Are you happy? Sad?
What are you?
Oh, didn't Anisha do it again.
Michelle, I heard that and I was like, wow. report you to prevent.
Right so it's so easy for the Chelsea Yeah, I prayed. I pray.
You know, who's gonna go and check. Why did he not say that
though? Why do you say I didn't pray. Then the mom asked him okay,
like why didn't you Oh, I couldn't find an empty classroom.
So then the mum spoke to him and said, Look, what you need to do is
go go go through and find a teacher who's sitting alone in the
classroom and just can't nicely ask her Can I use your class, I'm
gonna need five minutes, I just need to do a prayer
hamdulillah from the next day he started praying.
We have to make it convenient and easy and discuss these things with
our children. You know,
one of the most difficult things to do in school is to wash your
foot in the sink.
Both getting caught with your foot in the sink and how dirty they
are. Sometimes, the rest of the window is easy. So how much does a
regular pair of socks cost? By two pounds? Right? He's He's five
pounds. He buy socks for five pounds, mashallah, you know, he
buys Calvin Klein, you know, five pounds? So one or two pounds, you
can get a pair of socks, right? How much do we do socks costs?
Yeah, 15 to 20 pound the cheapest I've seen it's like 1516 point, if
you're lucky, right? At about 20 pounds. Usually, all my children
through their secondary school have had will do socks. The
investment is worth it, it makes it easier for them to break.
Because they can do what do we have to think on that level to
make it easy for them? Do you see what I'm saying? It's very
important for us to do that. Okay. I'll give you another example.
Just some final examples.
When I was an imam in America, I used to teach the older children
and my wife used to teach the younger children in the community.
It's up to 10 year olds. So we have two new students, their
Muslim, their Muslim family, but they've never been to mucked up on
either side before. One was seven. The other one is eight, something
like that. 782 brothers, two brothers.
My wife was discussing Allah that day. Allah is the Greatest. He's
the most powerful. Nobody can do anything in front of him. He can.
He can control everything he knows about everything. Suddenly one of
those kids
suddenly said Power Rangers. He was listening to the description
of Allah the greatest and in his mind, the greatest being was what?
Power Rangers
What would you have said Incredible Hulk.
Just joking. You understand? It's these are psychological
connections that are made through our culture that we live in. If
Allah is not there for us,
okay, contrast contrast that compare that to another kid is
about three or four years old. Right? How old are you?
Mashallah, so imagine this, what's your name again?
You Brian by? is literally Brian by he goes to an ocean. Okay, he
goes to an ocean. And you see that huge amount of water and the waves
just crashing at you.
Or some site.
Nobody asked him anything. He just said Allah created this. He was
moved to say Allah created this. Why? Because
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar was the first words he heard.
We're told to start off this world with love opponent, and La Ilaha
illa Allah as our last words and to be reinforced in between.
Nobody asked him he just said Allah created. He just thought in
his little mind, who can create this, no man can create this. Only
Allah must have created this.
And the final example I'm going to give you is of a girl.
She is about eight years old. At the time, her older brother was
about 10 years old. At that time, had to go to the opticians because
he had some seeing sight issues. And they said he needs glasses.
So she started making fun of him. You know, just like a little
sisterly banter, you need glasses, you need glasses, you're going to
get glasses. So the mother said to the Daughter, don't make fun of
him. Because you're probably going to need glasses as well. Because
your dad has glasses. Your mom has glasses. Your older brother has
glasses. So your career it runs in the family genetic you're gonna
need glasses as well. Right?
And then nothing was said afterwards. Fast forward 10 years.
She is How old is she now after 10 years?
18 1819 Whatever it is, right? She She has younger siblings. They
have glasses as well.
Father, mother, older brothers, or older brother, younger ones all
have glasses. So Should she have glasses? Well, yeah, but she
doesn't have glasses.
Why doesn't she have glasses? Now she reveals 10 years later Mom You
know when you told me you're gonna have glasses as well. I started
praying to Allah that I don't want glasses
amazing
Now that is somebody who's experienced Allah. You think
you're gonna have doubt after that?
Do you know what I'm trying to say? You're not gonna have doubt
after that, who told her to pray? The mother should have actually
said you know make dua that you don't get glasses she she just she
should have but she didn't but before that she'd been brought up
to to ask Allah Prophet stories had been read out to her Sahaba
stories had been read out to her in which they asked Allah and
Allah answered, she got it from there that yes, I'm going to call
Unto Allah as well. And a little mind, I'm going to call Unto Allah
as well. Allah responded to her.
Get our children connected to Allah and your job will become
easier.
The only way you can do that is if we become lovers of Allah. If we
become knowledge about Allah, if we become aware of Allah, only
then can we then pass this on, our children will see this otherwise
we can't tell them you love Allah. We don't love Allah. Right? We
can't do that. So the way to know Allah subhanho wa Taala is by four
things I mentioned already the Quran,
the 99 names number three and four very simple. Number three, find a
lover of Allah.
Somebody with awareness of Allah has tried to learn from them what
it means to love Allah. humans learn much more from copying
somebody and seeing somebody than through words. If you find the
love of Allah observed, as they say, right a righteous person or
whether you have Allah sit in their company, benefit from them,
you will learn love of Allah as well. And number four, is have a
vicar
regimen which means have a number of cards that you do everyday
where you remember Allah and then that will help you to love Allah
more. So you do like a stick for 100 times Salawat on the province
awesome 100 times a day, La ilaha illallah 100 times minimum, you
know like that inshallah you will get to learn that will help you
also love Allah subhanho wa Taala May Allah subhanaw taala grant us,
make us well Lavina Armando Usha to hope and Allah. May Allah make
us of these true believers who love Allah more than everything
else, such that everything else becomes blinded our addictions go
away, our obsessions go away, our focus becomes Allah. Now that
doesn't mean that you will become a bad lover to those like your
children, your parents, your brothers and sisters and your
spouse. Those who love Allah know what loves mean. And because
you're told to love your spouse and your family members, you love
them purely for the sake of Allah. So that love will also increase
you will know what it means to love. You will truly understand
the beauty of Allah subhanho wa Taala May Allah subhanaw taala
protect us from obsession with everything else and with His love
and JazakAllah here for our brothers from Keithley and
everywhere else that you're from, right and Masha Allah Jazak Allah
here, if anybody has any question if I've confused your you just got
something related. Please go ahead and ask
in this day and age when there's so much confusion, yeah.
What are the characteristics of a righteous person? Good question.
The characteristic of a righteous person is when you see him and be
with him you really he reminds you of Allah.
You just think of Allah when you see him not that he's Allah but he
just reminds you of Allah based on what he says and what he does,
right number one, number two, there are people who play a good
game Sunday you have to be careful. So number two, they
follow the Sharia 100% Or as far as possible, you don't see them
doing some major sins or weird opinions. Number three other
scholars consider them to be legitimate. That's a very
important question.
Let's just say somebody calls themselves Big Willie of Allah is
a woman who called me once and while she was in a real computer
she said that my husband is a Willie of Allah
okay hamdulillah Masha Allah so I said what's the issue? She said
the you know what it is my family want me to separate from him? So
why would they do that? said Yeah, because we've gotten into drugs
and * and all of this others so hold on hold on what's
going on here? So no, no Billy is a way of Allah is that amazing guy
but you know we have gotten into all of this stuff I said he's not
already of Allah
he might be a William making but he's not a Willie of Allah so
don't don't and then when I spoke to the family and there is a big
delusion that was going on, right so you have to be careful not
everybody can claims or whether you have Allah genuine see that
other scholars and other good people will also consider that
person to be decent. Yes.
Geez up.
So the brothers question was that you're saying that we're
suggesting that people should take a transitional Quran read it? Are
you saying that how would you get people close to the Quran first?
That's exactly what I'm trying to do is that if you do listen to me
and pick up the Quran,
right, and start reading it, get a translation start reading it, you
will become closer to the Quran. I guess maybe your question is how
do we get people to get a translation? Well
Maybe I started it off today by telling you why it's so
beneficial. Otherwise Allah is going to question you in the
hereafter. I sent you a message. It's a WhatsApp message but it's
not been read yet. Do you understand? That is a very
powerful idea. Are you going to say that in here to Allah I got
your message. I didn't read it. So may Allah subhanaw taala make us
closer to the Quran. Yes, brothers. If there's a question
from the sister, they can send it Yes.
particular translation. Can I recommend any particular type?
There's a few good ones out there. Right? Is whatever works for you.
One of them. Ahmed Zaki Hamid is got a decent translation.
Professor Abdul Halim published by Oxford is a decent translation of
the tackies one is a hub is quite decent as well in the new edition
that Toronto has published with the turkeys one there's a few
others as well but those somebody just got Murthy he liked it it
benefited him that's a he has some notes as well. Right to help you
along.
Yes, brother is anybody else otherwise I don't know what's next
on the agenda but
there's food on the agenda. Okay.
Yes, you have a Brian you have a question?
Mashallah, he listened all the way through amazing I didn't even fall
asleep hamdulillah anyway, just like Allah here my dear brothers
and sisters. Inshallah we'll see you guys again Allah bless the
people of this Masjid. Moringa Sudan Tabarrok the other jewelry
with the Quran Allah homie Are you yo yo mera metachronous, delete
Allahumma yahan Yemen and Isla Illa Allah subhana wa COVID-19
Avoiding mean just Allah one, Mohammed Mahieu Hello. You have
authorea Fatah here. Setar Yeah, haffi Salam Yeah, Latif. Yeah,
their jewelry with the Quran. Yeah, Allah have mercy on us.
Yeah, Allah bless us. Yeah, Allah Ya Allah, we ask you for your
special mercies, for your forgiveness, for your benevolence,
for your kindness, for your generosity of Allah for your love.
For your love of Allah, we ask that you forgive us all of our
wrongdoings, especially those that we have forgotten. Those that have
brought darkness in our life, those that have turned people
against one another. Those that have removed the protection from
punishments of Allah those that have now become part of our life,
and no longer do we consider them sins anymore. of Allah grant has
beneficial knowledge of Allah grant us your awareness. Allow us
closeness to the Quran. Allow us to read your book, to understand
your direct message to all of us, oh Allah allow us to understand
you by your multiple names and your characteristics. Our law
makers, people who have understood our good points that you have
given us and been able to use them for the right purposes allow us to
become of those who have understood their weaknesses and
been able to control them. Oh Allah removed the oppression from
our Muslim brothers and sisters around the world of Allah remove
the subjugation, remove the carnage and the destruction and
the genocide of Allah and grant them relief. Grant grant, grant
them their freedom, grant them their dignity, grant them the
honor, grant them a delivery from all of these problems. And Oh
Allah, Oh Allah, we ask that you allow us to be productive
individuals, you allow us to be those who do that which is correct
in this world, and to be focused on you with your love, and to
recognize your characteristics everywhere that we go, Oh Allah
bless our children and protect our children and our project is until
the Day of Judgment, keep the dough heathen your love in their
hearts and our Allah allow us to stand proud on the day of judgment
and to to be a proud member of the Messenger of the ummah of Your
Messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and make the
best moment the moment that we stand in front of you Subhan Allah
because Robin, is that the mIRC Fonasa when Al hamdu Lillahi
Rabbil Alameen May Allah bless all of those who've contributed to
this program who've attended this program, and oh, Allah, who,
who've, who were trying their hardest to do the Dawa in this
area and all the other areas of this Masjid all the others and the
Imams and the people and the committee and our lucky pasa right
and granted sincerity, the last Subhan Allah, Allah is that the
IMEI of the phone was at
the point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials
certificate which you take 20 Short modules and at the end of
that inshallah you
will have gotten the basics of most of the most important topics
in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident. You don't have to
leave lectures behind you can continue to live, you know to
listen to lectures, but you need to have this more sustained study
as well just like a law here in Santa Monica when I have to live
record