Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Integration Challenges and Our Responsibilities
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My dear respected friends, our brothers our sisters are Salam
alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
it's a pleasure and an honor to be here in your midst, in this really
beautiful city of Bergen Allah subhanho wa Taala has blessed you
with a lot of nature. And Imam Ghazali ramped Allah here and he
says that when it's raining then you should make dua because the
was accepted because rain is a Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala so
mashallah, you guys seem to have a lot of Mercy of Allah subhanaw
taala here, we just need to use that mercy when it's raining then
remember Allah and make some DUA and may Allah subhanho wa Taala
accept our dua.
Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, the iodine that I recited,
it's all about this concept of St. Karma steadfastness. So we're
speaking about this the karma
is the Karma is a to understand is the karma is to call remains to be
completely on the balanced and moderate and straight path,
avoiding every type of extreme
avoiding going left and right, just being on the path to Allah
subhana wa Tada. Now, this applies to ideology. If a person is going
to deviate in terms of the ideology,
take on ideas, doctrines, beliefs, aka ID which are not Islamic, then
they will go off the path Illa Zhi Li with Bala Al, towards deviance
and misguidance.
Number two, it also deals with practice in action, a person
should avoid that which is not established by the Sunnah, by the
general understanding and the spirit of the shittier. Avoid the
bitter Earth and the innovations that is also going off the path.
So we can go off the path intellectually, we can go off the
path.
On a doctrinal level, we can go off the path on a practical level
on a practice level. And then on a spiritual level, a number of
different levels. That's why it's the common is very complicated to
stay on path.
If we're delaying in our prayer in our salats if we're delaying in
the way we should be covered, and the way we should express
ourselves in our HELOC, if we're expressing too much anger, where
we should not be where we should be controlling it, then that is
also going off the path that is against is the karma. The Allama
have explained that for a person to have a balanced character,
a HELOC. We're in Nicola Isla Hulu can Aleem ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada
said that to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that you are on
the most sublime character
What is that character? There Allah ma have explained that that
was the most finest tuning of human characteristic and behavior,
you could have complete equilibrium, complete perfection.
And anybody who is close to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam in that, in that Allah can its balance will be the closest to
the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam.
Generally, what the other must say is that there are three things
which in which
contribute and effect our character. The first one is a
HELOC. The first one is anger, anger. Anger is a faculty huddled
over the anger is a faculty.
Which, if you have too much of it leads to crime, it leads to
murder, it leads to enmity, it leads to harming someone else.
Person is just too angry. He's always going to get, he's not
going to be able to control himself. He's going to lash out,
he's going to become violent. And this is what happens. You look
around the world. And you see it happens on every level, even
leaders to the common folk. You get so many questions from people,
they say, you know, chef, I have a question. I just divorced my wife
three times, but I was angry.
So you don't divorce your wife over a cup of coffee in Starbucks
do.
That's how people divorce. Unfortunately, they get angry. The
idea is in their mind, and they get angry and they say it. That's
why you should never think about divorce. Even if you're having big
arguments. Don't think about divorce in your subconscious.
Because if you do, then one day will just slip out.
That's the problem. argue no problem. If you want to argue you
can argue, try to avoid it. But don't think about divorce.
Otherwise it slips out and then you regret it. So that is
abundance of anger. If fraud, you call it a fraud to hold on.
On the other side, we need the faculty of anger to also assist in
courage. If a person doesn't have heat inside him, this anger for
the right reason, then they will have a shortcoming. They will
become cowardly, this will be called juban. They will be
cowardliness, then, their rights will be taken away. People are
abusing them, they'll be abusing their parents, maybe they will be
abusing their religion, and they will feel nothing
but handed me this today saying very cold person. He just sits
doing nothing. Nothing moves him was got by Nene Hilda. That's what
they say. This is a shortcoming in this regard. We have to have fine
tuning in this regard. Stand up for the right things. But don't
stand up for the wrong things don't get angry for no reason.
So, what you see in the world, I mean, the fraud and
excessive anger leads to people killing people it leads to ethnic
cleansing. And this is the kind of things that it leads to. Now we
can think about our level in our own our own lives, we all need to
attain this balance number two, the second thing which is very
important is shower which has to be balanced as well. The shower is
desire,
desire for more food, desire for sexual fulfillment, these are this
is shower. Now, if a person has to less of this, than the husband
will not fulfill the rights of the wife, the wife will not fulfill
the rights of the husband.
They will not fulfill each other's rights. That's generally not a big
problem. The bigger problem is if fraud is too much excessive
abundance, where a person goes beyond the halal into haram and
commit sexual deviant sees and this leads to all forms of haram
which we don't need to, you know, explain today. It's
understandable. That needs to be moderate as well. The shower needs
to be moderate. So the hot tub needs to be moderate. The shower
needs to be moderate.
And then we also have
ailment hikma. We have to be balanced straight in there to get
our source of understanding. If you have too less of knowledge
than will be ignorant and ignorant is a massive problem. Ignorance is
one of the biggest calamities of the human being to be ignorant.
When you're ignorant. You don't know how to act. We don't know
what's recommended recommended for us. We don't know what's required
for us by our dean. If we don't understand confusion, when you
have ignorance when you have Jehovah then you have ignorance
and you
You have confusion, bewilderment, and we don't know what to do. And
then we can do many things which are wrong. And that's why lots of
people do things which are wrong. And
too much means to go into areas that is not for the intellect to
get into. The human has five faculties, the sense of sight and
hearing, and touch, and so on. These act like satellites for our
intellect, our brain, and our brain processes all of these
signals we get from what we see what we hear what we touch, what
we smell, our brain gets the signals and it processes this
information. The brain is an amazing piece of masterpiece of
Allah subhanaw taala, even when a person is sleeping, the neurons in
the brain, there are millions of processes that are constantly
taking place, constantly 24 hours a day, in our brain, even when we
think we're sleeping, that is the ability of Allah subhanaw taala
that nobody can create something like this. It's just amazing. That
is a constant movement in the brain of what's happening.
Now,
the brain processes the information that we have, but how
would our brain and intellect understand what is to come after
life?
What is paradise and hellfire,
what there is in terms of other existences.
These are all things where the brain stops. So just like our
sight and our ears, our hearing our touch, and everything has a
limit, a boundary, beyond which it doesn't work. If I look at this
microphone, and I look at it with my sight, I can hear its effect.
But there's no way I can understand just with my sight and
my hearing, or my touch, or my sense of tastes.
How this is functioning, I can see the color, I can see what it's
doing. But I can't understand how that's happening. My intellect
needs to come in here and process this information.
Now, there are many things in the universe, which the brain cannot
understand because we have not been programmed to understand
this. That's why Allah subhanaw taala has made certain things out
of our boundary. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam once came
out into the masjid,
that where His room was when the Prophet saw some came out,
actually, you know, that's where the Muslims room was. When he came
out, he saw some Sahaba they were in discussion. They were
discussion they were discussing.
They were discussing powder, Destiny, predestination.
And there was a good discussion, heavy discussion going on, the
person said stop, this is not something that you should get into
the depths of because you will either come out of it in one
extreme or the other, or the Kadri or a Jamboree, like the came out,
come out as a fatalist or absolute proponent of free will. It's not
the time to go into that discussion. But for anybody who
wants to understand that discussion, I have a one hour and
15 minute detail lecture on that on zum zum academy.com. It's
called, don't be depressed, you don't know your future. Don't be
depressed, you don't know your future. Very important discussion
for a lot of people because they think that if my last 1015 2030
years have been miserable, lots of setbacks, then my remaining 2030
years will also be miserable. And that's the wrong thought. The
prophets Allah lorrison wants us to be optimistic. That's why
hadith of Muslims says it is Allah Maya and Farooq, Wallah carriages,
ages do not become enfeebled, and go and avidly search and look for
that, which is to your benefit. And then he said, if something
were in fire to cache, if something does miss you, then
don't start crying over spilt milk. He didn't say Spilt Milk, he
said, Then don't say, Oh, if only this, if only that, because
shaytan then uses that to open the door. He says no, then you just
say in that Allahu nada, write your own, and you just carry on.
Because whatever has happened in the past doesn't have to happen in
the future. This is the debilitating state this is where
shaytaan makes us think
that if something has happened in the past, it will happen again.
They think people start to think I'm a loser. Nothing's going to
happen for me. My marriage will never work out. My business will
never be prosperous.
This is what people think. But no, we have to be optimistic. So the
intellect also has a boundary and there are many things that the
intellect will not understand like powder. Another thing the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said that don't
ponder and reflect over the essence and being of Allah
subhanaw taala. What is he made of? What does he look like? This
is not something we'll ever understand. But you should think
about his signs his names
around you. That's how you understand the power, and the
efforts, the attributes and the Beautiful Names of Allah subhanaw
taala. That's how we understand Allah.
To give you an example, do you remember the first time that you
ever got a calculator, who remembers the first time that they
laid hands on a calculator. And when you first got the qlT, I
remember when I was about, I don't know, five or six years old, and I
got a calculator. I was very excited. So I started, you know,
10 plus this and 10 times this, and then you get more numbers. And
then you do some crazy numbers, and then it gives you a e sign.
Have you seen that E sign? What does that E sign mean? It means
error. I didn't know what it meant. He just gave me E. What's
the problem? And why cannot this? Why can't this do? The
mathematical sum I wanted to do is to give me this E sign. What's the
problem with this? Then, my son has a scientific calculator, which
can take a lot more sums, bigger numbers, because we use the square
roots and everything scientific. But the reason is that that
calculator, it was only programmed to do so much you had a boundary.
Beyond that, it doesn't work.
Do you understand it doesn't work. So likewise, the human beings we
have been bounded by certain things hamdulillah our boundaries
are great, there are so many things that Allah has opened up
for us. But then there is a level beyond which it cannot go.
So that's why agnostics who are still searching after the humanity
has been in existence for 1000s of years. History has been recorded
for hundreds of years in accurate detail. There have been many
belief systems and doctrines and agnostics I don't understand why
they keep saying I still don't know
in Arabic they call hola Adria.
I don't know, I don't know is that's why do you need to be
agnostic about that? There are many belief systems pick one of
them is lazy.
Right? You're being lazy, that you don't want to pick something.
Right? You want something that goes against goes goes with the
knifes and with the desire. These are some of the challenges that we
will be dealing with. We want to reach moderation and estate karma
because it's on estate karma that will be accepted in the hereafter.
As Allah subhanaw taala says that very those who say that our Lord
is Allah, Robin, Allah, our Lord is Allah.
So muster calm, and then after that they tried to remain on the
straight path.
If they do that, and if they succeed, then the angels will
descend it and as early human Mala Iike the angels will descend upon
them. And the angels their their promise will be that alert The
Hafele you don't have to fear what attacks No, you don't have to
grieve
What obihiro and accept the glad tiding Bill Jana, with the
Paradise and the gardens that you have been promised.
We were your assistants. We were your friends. We took care of you
in the world. Phil hayati dunya in the life of this world war Phil
era. We will also do the same in the hereafter.
Magnolia welcome Phil hayati, duniya Orfila hero. What a comfy
Hi I'm Tasha he and Phu Kham and then for you in the is whatever
your knifes and yourself desires.
What a coffee hammer to their own and for you is everything that you
now want. And you call for new zulum men are food and Rahim This
is abundant hospitality, special hospitality from the Forgiving
Lords and the merciful Lord, look at the two names of Allah that
have been used here. Out of all of this. Allah uses not garter
Cardiel he doesn't use that name. He doesn't use generous he uses
the food on Rahim. He is Forgiving and Merciful. Because when
somebody reads this ayah they're gonna think, oh man, I have
misbehaved. I have problems. I have crimes. I have sins. I have
transgressions. I have many shortcomings. How am I going to
get this? Allah reminds you at the end he gives hope. He says I am
going forward on rahimian, the forgiving one and the Merciful
One. So yes, you may have made a few mistakes. But at least you've
got this. That's why there's another Hadith in Sahih Bukhari
etc. The Prophet sallallahu sallam said, said they do work on rebou
Another one said they do what she wrote
hit the mark
or get close. What that means is that we are told that try to aim
straight. When a person is trying to fire at something, he wouldn't
he needs to aim straight to be able to get the targets. If you're
aiming in that direction and your target is here, or you want to go
to Oslo, and you take a road to some other direction to North care
North cap, then you're going to reach the North cap.
Right, you're not going to get to Oslo. So at least get on the right
roads, that likewise for Muslims, our responsibility is to try our
best to get on the right track, through knowledge, perseverance,
subber, patience and inspiration. And then if we have moved, here,
here or there, then Allah subhanaw taala will
at least forgive us because the Hadith mentions
aim for the mark, or at least close.
And then the other Hadith says, and accept the glad tidings
because Allah understands our weaknesses. See, when Allah
subhanaw taala created humanity, as a hadith which mentions that
after creating the Insan, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tala saw that the in
sun is weak, we are vulnerable, we will fall, we will fall prey to
sins, we will make mistakes. So, he said that if I am going to deal
with these people in just the complete just way, if they make a
sin, I'm going to punish them. If they make a good deed, I'm going
to reward them if this was such a fixed system of punishment for
every sin and reward for every good deed, and we would never
survive.
We would never survive. So you know what he made his special
mission here. That's when he said in Rama T sub aka the hobby, and
he had that specially written above his Arsh that my Lord My
Mercy has overcome my anger. So when I deal with people, the
majority of times and instances it will be through mercy. And that is
why we're still surviving today. That is why we can hope for
Allah's Mercy despite our wrongdoings as greater problem we
may have as great sins we may have committed in the past, inshallah
we will be able to hope for Allah's mercy. That's why if not,
I thought Allah says something else very interesting. He says,
law sorry, rota either Karbala cara de Loup.
Right for those who understand Arabic will really appreciate this
beautiful last saw Hirata either car by the car I don't know who
won or Kabira either wotja fabuleux. There is no there is no
small sin. If Allah is to confront you with His justice, then even
the smallest sin we're in big trouble.
That's why we should be thinking you know, when people say oh,
don't worry, the short are gonna it's a small center, the Saudi
royal who Allahu Allahu Allah Who for Rahim right? People say this
is a misunderstanding, right? So, there is no small sin, when he
wants to deal with you with justice, and he can if he wants
to.
But then in the same breath, he says, but there is no big sin,
when his grace confronts you.
If you have sinned, as big as those sins are as great as they
are, as much as they fill, Allah subhanaw taala is fallible and His
grace and His Rama is greater than that. is greater than that. That's
why Subhanallah if we just think about the Mercy of Allah subhanaw
taala. Then
if we focus on that, only sometimes it could mislead us.
That's why we need to have a balance of health of fear and
promise. Because look, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
is a servant of Allah subhanaw taala Yes, he's the greatest
prophet.
He comes into McCampbell Corolla, and he forgives everybody. After
all of this aggression, they have thrown him out and he persecuted
his followers
made their lives miserable. And then when they moved to Madina,
Munawwara they had been attacked over and over again.
But when he comes back to MK como karma, He forgives everybody.
He says, Whoever enters the house of Abu Sofia and one of the
leaders of the time of the Meccans he says he is safe. What mercy is
that? What mercy is that? Use of Ali salam after what his brothers
did to him. We don't need to talk about the whole story. We know the
story. He for
gives them these are servants of Allah, forgiving,
showing their mercy. And Allah subhanaw taala out of His mercy,
He is only sent 1% of His mercy onto the earth, that 1% is used by
these prophets that 1% from their all the mothers have mercy over
their children, just from 1%. So can you imagine if 99% of Mercy
was descending on this earth, or we were to be confronted with 99%
of mercy. That's why if you just think about the Mercy of Allah,
that could become a fitna for us. Because then we think, has 99% of
Mercy. Mercy has never seen before. I'm going to be forgiven,
let me carry on doing sins. But that is the wrong approach as
well.
That is the wrong approach as well. That's not is the karma is
the karma is I need to fear Allah as well. How do I know that he
will use his 99 Personal mercy for me, sometimes he may dislike one
act of mine, like we've seen stories of the past of people who
are great worshipers. But at the end, just due to one act, one deed
they lost their faith, then that mercy is not coming. And yet, we
have also seen that out of one act, a prostitute who's never done
any other good deeds, except fed a dog water
that was thirsty, suddenly she gets salvation. That's up to
Allah, Allah is independent, nobody can claim that I've got
contacts with Allah, He will do my bidding.
So we can never be but if somebody has done wrong, then they've got
lot to think about and look for hope, from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada.
Now living in the West, we have challenges. Living in the east,
they have challenges.
I know mushrif is where the sun rises. The East is where the
sunrises and mothering is where the sunsets, I don't know if that
means anything. But we are here, and we're here to stay. And the
one thing that I have seen, which keeps us back is this
is the mentality that us against them. This needs to go.
If this is where you live, and this is your home, and this is
where you have citizenship from, then this is your country. And
until you don't consider this to be your country,
then you will never be successful. You won't understand how to deal.
Your confidence will not be there. You will constantly be in survival
mode, constantly on the defensive. I'm not saying there's no
challenges, there's huge challenges. But this challenge is
everywhere. I have lived in
I have lived in at least four countries in different continents
for extended period of time, meaning more than a few months,
like at least a few months. And believe me anywhere you go, even
to a Muslim country where they have Sharia law, sometimes, in
some cases, there are challenges there as well. Because it's the
dunya Dunya is a place of challenges.
Dunya is a place of challenges. There are Muslim countries where I
would not be able to speak
unless somebody five months ago, six months ago did an application
and they checked you out and everything just to give a small
ban.
There are Muslim countries like that where they would not allow
anybody else to speak except certain people.
The hotbar has to be one around the whole country.
You cannot teach any other book. There are places like this
Subhanallah we are everywhere the challenge because Dunya is a place
of challenges. Allah placed us here for a certain reason.
Now yes, if you cannot do your deen, you cannot practice your
deen somewhere then understandable. Then you have to
make sure that we have laws for them. But where you've got freedom
to practice your religion as much of it as possible. Right, doing
your father if your father Tulane then after that we are here for a
reason.
All of these refugees that are coming in here million, just a
million in in Germany, and then the rest, then maybe Allah
subhanaw taala has something great in store for us. Right? The whole
of Europe. The whole problem that we see around us today is
look, if you look at it from the country's perspective, people who
run the country and they see people who are going against the
norm of the way people dress of the way
People eat of the people, the way people greet, have their approach
to matters of the Hereafter of their approach to worship of their
approach to God, then they've been used to things for a very long
time. And then suddenly, we get all of these Muslims who come in,
because Muslims haven't had a heritage here for hundreds of
years, what's been lost 50 years. Now, it takes a lot of getting
used to you understand it from their perspective, from, you know,
from the people in authority and from the host community, they see
it differently.
They get suspicious. Just imagine if you're from Somalia, or from
Pakistan or whatever. And you get a whole community of sick people
from a different country. You can imagine what you're going to
think, right? You're going to be suspicious. You're going to be
considerate. Now, there's a very interesting story that's related
that when the Zoroastrians when they were thrown out of Persia,
the fire worshippers they came to the Indian subcontinent, that time
India was one Indian subcontinent and they said we want to come and
settle here the leader of India, whoever it was at the time, he got
a he got a glass full of milk.
And he said, the person understood that we are already full here in
this Full House is a lot of people live in India right.
So, what this person said did is that he took some sugar and he put
it inside
he put it inside
right. So the person understood now, is that what we do? The
question is that us Muslims who have come, I mean, many of us are
born here, but those who came here are first generation. Are we
putting sugar here?
Or are we taking from the milk? Are we consumers or contributors?
Are people appreciating us? Or do people see us as a burden?
Forget religious issues, a HELOC issues? Religious, you know, I'm
not talking about freedom of religion here. I'm talking about
just humanity.
How many of us muslims contributes to purely social issues, social
needs of everybody, Muslims and non Muslims alike. That's also a
Muslim issue, to look after others, not just in fact, the
other ma say like the Hanafuda Lama they say that if it wasn't
for that one Hadith of Ma dibujo Bella the Allah related by Buhari,
etc, where the professor was sent him to Yemen, and he told him how
to teach people. And then he talked about zakat. And he said
that you will take from the rich and you will give to the poor.
That Hadith restricts zakat to Muslims only. You take the cards
from Muslims and you give it to other needy Muslims, Zakat is
restricted. So the number of Hanafi Roma what they say is that
if it wasn't for this hadith, even zakat we would have given to non
Muslims.
But we can't because of this hadith, but Sadat cards. So the
cattle feeder of Ramadan can be given to non Muslims, your old
here and your Kermani can be distributed to non Muslims.
So that's a Muslim issue as well. But we see that okay, we're going
to help only Palestine, only when there's problem in Somalia, only
Muslim places.
We don't contribute to others to show that we are also going to
sweeten this place. We don't want to be a burden there are countries
in Europe, who initially welcomed immigrants. But mashallah the
immigrants came and discovered that this free money on offer
here,
the welfare system, if you just sign the papers, and you write
this, and you can do work on the ground, and you do this and so on,
you can make a lot of money.
Now, this is tax money, somebody's paying taxes for this. So the host
community who is paying taxes, now they start thinking these people
are a burden on us. And this creates more Islamophobia. Look,
there are people majority of people are fair, decent.
Most people, they have humanity within them. They don't mind
people. Right? Of course, we have racist and racism is a problem.
And there are there is a minority who is very vocally racist. And
some communities are known to be more racist than others. And
that's the fact that it's a problem. And Islamophobia is
there, but there are many. There are many things that contribute to
that. It's just the question is, are we helping to remove that? We
unfortunately have our members of our community, different parts of
the world that suddenly take a take a small
area of 10 miles in Iraq. And the first thing they want to do there
is to establish cutting the hands off. The first thing.
They don't want to educate first, they don't want to the first thing
to show people we mean business. So cut people's hands off
this process.
And that is to just start with the big bang, and it creates a big
bang. But it creates problems for the rest of us. Is that helping
Muslims? Or is that harming Muslims?
They don't understand.
We have that problem. But we, in the West, we must start taking
ownership.
What can we do within our Islamic law in our Islam is encouraging us
to do this. What else can we do for the welfare of others, instead
of just consuming, consuming, consuming?
That's why university students, those who are going to university
should also think, what are the courses that I need to do not just
to make money, the vocation that I choose? The specialization that I
do, is it just to because this specialization makes a lot of
money, it has a lot of prestige. I just want to do it for my own
career and comfort.
Do things for your own Korean comfort, but have an element of
welfare, have an element of how you can give back using that?
Those are the people who are going to succeed? Those are the people
who are going to make some difference for everybody. So
choose your career, well, how can I contribute in this career, this
career is more suited than this one. This one is more limited.
This one is better, I can contribute on a policy level, on a
consultation level. That's what needs to happen if you want to
make a difference and a change. Unfortunately, what we have in
many places, is that we have a group of people who are so
dedicated in their work.
And they are fully career oriented, brothers and sisters,
that they will even hide their faith, because they feel it will
be a stumbling block. They will not pray. They will not ask for
leave for prayer. They will not ask for a prayer room. And they
will just be completely focused trying to be as fitted in as
possible. We have those people, then we have another group of
people who say they're very strong in their salads.
And they want time off for Friday prayer. But they're very bad
workers.
They're very bad workers. So if they have a generous supervisor
who says okay, fine, you can take 10 minutes for your prayer, they
will take 1520 minutes.
They will say, Oh, I've got this function, I've got that function
is my religious right. And then they will take off, and they will
not do good work. They will come late, they will leave early. And
all of these things, both of these extremes. It's not just the power.
What the Sharia wants is that you have a contract with somebody,
fulfill your faith, fulfill your contracts. That's why Subhanallah
there's one Hadith related by
Imam Muslim imam Buhari, it's a Saudi narration that one of the
grid, there's a few things which have a huge amount of rewards.
They get the reward twice. One of them is that servant, that slave
who works for his master but also fulfills his right to Allah
subhana wa Tada.
They get double reward because they've got two responsibilities.
We have a responsibility to Allah. And we have a responsibility to
people. If we have a contract with them, I give you an example. Give
you a few examples. A friend of mine, who when I was imam in
America, there was a one of the brothers in the masjid. He have
Palestinian half Egyptian brother. He was an engineer in
superconductor technology, you need superconductor technology for
mobile communication. You know, the mobile communication. So at
that time, was just beginning about 50, you know, 10 1015 years
ago, so there was a big need for that. So he worked in one of the
firms, very good worker, very, very valued.
He would work every day a bit extra, so that on Friday, because
he was management of the masjid, he would he could take off half
day after July, he could take off, but he would fulfill his hours and
they were happy with that. And in annual general meetings, he would
not go there. He would not attend the annual general meeting of the
company. Why? And he made it very clear because I can't sit on table
where the wine is served.
So now after a few years, one day his supervisor came to him and he
said to him that we've got a meeting in a few weeks. He says,
Yes, I know. And I'd like you to attend. He says you know
My problem is that no, we've just changed our policy that no wine
will be served, no alcohol will be served in these meetings anymore.
Now because of one man who is a contributor, valued
true to his Lord, and also working hard to fulfill his right, he
mashallah they want him there. So they changed their policy.
They changed their policy,
numerous stories like this, I've got a friend in London, he was
going to he runs a particular software, he's an IT person. He's
very good at a particular software for housing associations. So he
went for the interview. And after the interview, he said to them,
Look, I'm a Muslim. And because of that, he didn't hide, right? He
said, I need to pray. Why did you can go there and just say, I'll
find a place afterwards, he was clear says, Look, I need to pray.
And generally it's problem in winter, because the prayers are
all close together. I just need a room that I can spend, you know,
710 minutes. And in some way, it's not a big, big problem. So they
said, Okay, let's look, let us look into it. Right, because
anybody could make any claim. They did their research. And they
discovered Yes, as Muslims, Muslims have to pray five times a
day. And these are the prayer times. So what they said in the
next meeting with him is that next door is a I think it was a Holiday
Inn Hotel, we will book a room in there for you for the whole year.
And you can use that whenever you need to go to pray.
And he said, No, no, no, no, you don't need to do that. That's
gonna waste too much money. I just need a small area this much.
That's what I need. So they found a storeroom, and they put a carpet
in there and they gave it to
valued worker. He just told me before last Ramadan, that a few
weeks before Ramadan, they sent him a schedule. They sent out the
schedule. And his schedule for Ramadan said, was more lenient,
because he can work from home on certain days. And he says,
Ramadan, Ramadan, Ramadan, Ramadan, they were taking that
into consideration as well.
Now you can only do that, if you're proud of your faith and
know how to carry yourself not in a fanatical way. Right? Not in a
way that no one was praying, you know, you can go to *, right?
Let me pray. Otherwise, I leave my job. You know, this is there's
different ways people do that. They think that they must get
angry for Allah. So they must do it in an unwise way. And that's
wrong.
You do it in a way Now I'm not saying that this will work for
everybody. There will be people say no, I don't care, you know,
but these things have been known to work because they value people
value good humanity, people value good contribution. As Muslims we
must be those who when we walk in a room, we will say mashallah, now
the cold breezes come in. Now, you know, something of value is going
to come about.
That's what's important.
So we ask Allah subhanaw taala for Tofik to help us and assist us.
Now we'll move on to some other topics of the other challenges
that we have. Allah subhanaw taala has blessed us all in this
country. I was talking to some of the brothers yesterday and they
said that I said you should do you know some something for poor
people. They said there's no Norwegian poor people.
Right? There's nobody, nobody who's poor except maybe immigrants
or something like this. Now, this is what we thought in England as
well. But we have a local, we established a local charity. And
subhanAllah. What we discovered is that there are quite a few poor
people. There are people who have paperwork problems, they can't
work officially. So people abuse them. Number two, there are a lot
of women who are in domestic shelters, domestic abuse shelters,
they've had problems in their marriage, or whatever the case is.
There are people with mental health problems. So in the last
three to four years, we have spent over 60,000 pounds, just locally
in just three areas of London. That's it. So these are some of
the things that we need to take into consideration.
But generally So alhamdulillah it looks like in Norway, just like in
England, Allah subhanaw taala has blessed us. We have security we
can walk out on the street, go for a walk and no problem. I have been
to countries where you can't do that. So let's go for a walk. So
no way. You have to go in the car. And you have to lock the car. You
can't go out You be you will be mugged hijacked carjacked whatever
it is hamdulillah here we have a few problems but generally it's
safe, you know, safety, Allahu Akbar, Amman, right? That is such
a valuable asset. That is such a valuable assets that you don't
have to worry about just being killed, just randomly assigned
End of the Day of Judgment, that a person towards the sign of Day of
Judgment is that a person will be killed. While I agree female
Cotulla you will know not know why he's been killed. And this can be
gang violence. This can be just just a breakdown of society and
problems as we see around the world. Allah help our Muslim
brothers and sisters around in the Muslim world because there's no
Arab Spring. It's an Arab storm, an Arab hurricane. And there's a
problem down there. May Allah subhanho wa Taala Asst. May Allah
help us. So in these countries, we have access to the food that we
want to eat, we have access to the type of clothing we want to wear,
we have access to to mashallah comfortable and safe places to
live. That is the name of Allah subhanaw taala, we must not take
it for granted. And
this prosperity brings about another challenge though,
everything can be a challenge. Even this prosperity is a
challenge. When you have a lot of disposable income and money, then
as they say, in in order to basically musty write the mischief
of money. So you understand what that means the ability that I can
get whatever I want. Now, what happens with that is then you feel
like indulging, then we get caught up in the whole consumerism
culture. In the whole capitalist. Have you seen how they measure the
success and the prosperity of the nation? They they see how many
people are going into stores and buying? It's crazy. This system is
crazy. They say, you know, Christmas time sales, and then
they have do you guys have Black Friday here? Right? Mashallah. You
have the American Black Fridays as well. Right?
The idea of Black Friday is that this is when the shops go from red
to black. In terms of the the earnings, a crazy idea, but the
idea is just buy, buy, buy now look, I'm saying that if you need
something, go ahead and buy it. You need a new phone, go ahead and
buy it. But you have a completely sound phone, but you just need the
next iPhone. Right. But you've got a completely completely fine
phone. Just I got a question once. And a brother said, I can't
remember which country it was from. He said, I've got a
I think it was a yes is a Samsung
particular one. And he says, Do I have to buy the next one? So what
kind of a question is that? He said, Because if I don't then
people will make fun of me.
I G, I said you do things for yourself. Don't do things for
others, this group culture. This is exactly what it is. Right? You
know, if you look at people who are fanatically in love with
products, fanatically in love with teams, right, like Manchester
United Liverpool, Arsenal and things like this. You will see
that the tendency is that they display a very similar to those
found in religious fanatics.
Do you understand? They're very similar to those found in religion
Otherwise, why would you spend hours and hours waiting outside a
shop just so you can get the first handset, which after a week you
can get it very calmly and comfortably. It's a it's a
psychological issue. Right? It's a psychological issue. Now if you
want to do that, do it for your dean. Don't do it for anything
else. It's just about thinking about it you become slave to
something
that you must have it
that's the problem. Yes, if you're in need of a phone go and get the
best phone if that's what you need. But if you don't need it,
you don't need to do it just for an upgrade. Because our lives does
now becoming that one year we upgrade our phone. The next year
we upgrade our appliances because the next one looks a bit more
futuristic. Looks a bit more streamlined. And it has better
angles and edges so we need to buy the next one even though our
kettle at home is perfect. Or our cooker or the TV just the new a
new technology came out. What is it 4k?
Some of these screens that I have seen in shops they they don't even
real
you look at the picture and he's got so many vivid colors that in
reality you don't have those colors.
I'm looking at those that pink, the red so bright, this is not
reality. They just add a bit of extra color in there.
And it makes it seem like extra reality. So now you must get the
curved one. Right, just your you know whatever you have at home
then and the problem is that a lot of people are getting this
without having the ability to have it. So now you get a new sofa.
A nice sofa suite and
You're now paying for the next three years. By three years when
you've paid off, when it's now yours, he would be old now.
No pleasure.
Because when you're on there, and if you lose your job, then what's
going to happen? This is what most people think. Everyday when they
sleep, they're worried about the car that they have bought on, on
this, the sofa, the refrigerator, and everything else in the house,
if they lose their job, what's going to happen, and thus they
feel obliged to take on certain types of jobs.
Stay free, start off small, the pleasure of saving up and then
buying something is immense because you know, it's yours and
you can enjoy it.
Abdullah Abdullah Mubarak,
sorry, Abdul Rahman him now.
His story is amazing. Now, you know, he's one of the Ashura
Mubasher. Right. He is one of the 10 given the glad tidings of
Jannah. Now, if you look at the 10, who are given the glad tidings
of Jannah, none of them were poor.
Who are the poorest Sahaba that you have in mind that you can
think of, that were known to be poor? Give me a few names.
A Buddha. Buddha was an ascetic, he had decided that I don't want
anything beyond what I need for today. Right? He had a special
fatwa that was different. Who else?
Abu Hurayrah, the Allah one, right, and a number of others.
None of those are actual Mr. Bashara. I showed Mr. Bashara are
the highest,
you know, the top 10 among which is the top four which is the
forefather.
Do you know that among the 10 four of them were billionaires.
Who postman are they are we know about that? You know, who can
spend this many animals in the possible path of Allah? Right by
the well when nobody else could do that and give it sadaqa it's a
crazy amount of money yet. The other one was zubaid in our very
wealthy, some of his son's
forts
are still in Madina. Munawwara right, very wealthy. Another one
was Taha ignore, obey the law. And number four, Abdul Rahman
Ignatieff. Allah had given him so much money. He himself says that
if I pick up a stone, I will find gold underneath it. The Golden
finger he had a Jeep. Now. He was a Mahajan. He was from a coma
coma, he had to abandon everything and he went to Madina, Munawwara I
took a lot of lesson from this. When I read the story, he went to
Madina, Munawwara and the Prophet sallallahu. Some, you know, he did
more ahart He made brothers with one Mahajan and one Medina and
Ansari. He made Adorama now of the brother of one of the wealthiest
Ansara, one of the wealthiest of the answer.
So, this unsought he said to him, I've got this money, you can have
this and I've got if you want, if you want a wife, then I can
organize that as well. He said, Look, just tell me where the
market is. I don't need anything from you. Just tell me where the
market is the souk he went there in the morning, and this is how he
did business.
He didn't go and get a big loan.
He went and he bought a camel from somebody on credit. Let's just say
for you know, 500 Durham's, he bought the camel for 500 dirhams.
For example.
He took the camel, and the camel came with a string, a rope, he
took the rope off, and immediately sold the camel for the same price,
quick sale, but the profit was the rope. And he went and paid off. He
did this whole day, by the end of the day, he came back to the house
with food to contribute.
That's what you call Steven. That's what you call
being a proper entrepreneur. That is what you call really
understanding what to do taking matters not feeling sorry for
yourself, you know, how can I make this work? And then Allah gave him
wealth. Right? And the best part of this is when the biographer is
mentioning his serum, he says in Arabic, he says for Robert deja
rotta who will be sadaqah
Robert Ijarah, who will be sadhaka that word really hit that
expression hit me. He said the way he made the way he nurtured his
business. The way he made it prosperous. Robber is tarbiyah to
bring something up stage by stage by fulfilling its rights. The way
he brought his business up is by sadaqa ajeeb by sadaqa.
Now this is something that we will not understand. We are living in
Rational times, we are living in a time of modernity, and
postmodernity, where rationality is king. empiricism is what
matters. empiricism is everything has to be proven through science.
Otherwise, it's dismissed. How do we understand that you give
sadaqa.
And Allah will give you more. What we understand what the way we
live, what they understand is you put money in a bank, into bonds
into fixed savings, your money is secure, and you will make 5% on
top. That's what we understand as a way of increasing money.
Does it make sense that you give sadaqa and Allah says He will give
you 70 times more?
How does that even make sense? In the rational world we're living
in. But that's what comes from Iman. That's a test of our faith.
And Lavina you may know Anna Belhaj, those who believe in the
unseen that is our description, Willa Iike Allah who the Mirabai
himolla ecohome of Laon these are the people who are on the guidance
of the Lord, they've understood it. And these people will be
successful. That's how Allah describes a Lavina you know, and I
believe right in the beginning of the Quran.
We need to know more about what Allah requires from us, the
sacrifice of faith, to understand that yes, I will give him the path
of Allah and I will get back how I'll get back on only Allah
subhanaw taala knows, and the stories we have for that an
amazing Abdurrahman him now, he was so wealthy, so wealthy, that
before he passed away, he wanted to give a huge chunk of his wealth
to the battery in, you know, the Sahaba who had taken part in the
Battle of boredom after the ashram Wabasha. Then the next hierarchy
of Sahaba is the battery in the 313 or 15 Sahaba, who, who took
part in the Battle of whether they are considered the highest. Now
whoever was left the majority of them was still there. I think. He
wanted to give them each a gift and award of a huge amount of
money. Among them was also a thematic not a fan of the Allah
one. He is the Hadith of the time. This is during his time.
So when he's giving his money out, even a thermometer often goes to
collect his amount. And someone said to Earth man even or affirm
that you're wealthy anyway, why do you need to take it says no, this
is special money, this is baraka. This is Barack
Abdurrahman. Now, one day, he was sorry, I shot at the Allahu Allah
one day she is sitting in a house by the masjid. And suddenly she
hears a big commotion.
Very loud, like a big army has come in like huge amount, a lot of
dust everywhere. What's happened? This is Abdul Rahman Libnah AUVs
trade Caravan has just come back, I think from Sharm or somewhere
with business. Can you imagine how big that was? Huge, like an army.
So she just mentioned she just made a remark. She said, Yes, I've
heard the profit and loss. I'm saying that I've never heard him.
Now if he's going to have to go into Janna on his knees.
He's going to have to go in Jannah on his knees.
Right. This Word reached Abdurrahman mouth.
And he said no, Abdurrahman mouth is going to go into Jana standing,
walking. And he gave the entire proceeds of that in the path of
Allah.
He gave the entire proceeds of that in the path of Allah, how can
he do that? You've just had a major business profits, and you
just give it in the path of Allah. How would you do that? You know,
the way to do that is because these people that Iman was so
strong, mashallah there is the karma was just that nothing could
make them waver. And they did not allow their money to go into their
hearts. They had a huge amount of money, but they kept it in their
hands. When you have it in your hands, you can use it. When it's
in your heart, then it takes over.
Essentially, that is the difference. They had huge amounts
of money. There is nothing wrong with having a lot of money. That's
what I'm trying to say. Because our challenge in the West is that
we have access to money and disposable income and to buy what
we want.
It's just how do we use it? And where do we spend it?
It's really sad. The one thing that I did here and I'm going to
mention this as a shikcha as a complaint, that hopefully people
will listen
that
you people don't pay the Imam enough money.
Right. And what I mean by that is you
100 I think you guys have in this masjid, I believe you have a you
have Imams that you pay. But in other parts of the masjid and
maybe even other cities, the Imam is expected, the Sheikh is
expected to work for free, as a hitman.
And while that's a great idea,
it's difficult, you can't do it you need to survive, then the
problem is that he's going to have to have a job for 12 hours, maybe
even taxi driving, which is a crazy job to start with. And then
he's going to come home and then want to teach a few kids. He's
going to be tired. You know, I've run a mother. So I understand what
kind of level you need to be. Somehow we need to think about
this. What is the right way to go about this hamdulillah in England,
right, in England, they pay the Imams, yes, maybe many masters,
they still pay low, but they pay them. They don't expect that you
should just take it from the government.
We need to be self sufficient. We need to be self sufficient. And
part of this is that if we don't look after our children, and get
them good teachers who are firing and free to give them all the
investment, our next generation, I don't know where it's gonna go.
What are we doing all of this stuff? Why are we establishing
ourselves for, don't we care about our next generation? That is one
of our biggest responsibilities to give them the best. If we're
trying to send our children to the best universities of hamdulillah
let them be the greatest. But if they're going to lose their faith,
and they will not come to your not remember you after your death,
who's going to come to your cover your grave, and pray for you who's
going to do a saga who's going to read some Quran for you, who's
going to do Hajj for you, even when you have completely
materialistic generation, who doesn't understand that they must
do things for others, and continue and pray for the for the parents.
They have no Dean, Dean can be lost very fast in these places, as
you know, Dean can be lost very fast in this place. We know so
many this one person I know is 19 years old, just started
university, one of the top universities of London
says two of his classmates, one from Pakistan, one from Somalia,
both say I am not a Muslim anymore.
And the problem is their parents probably don't even know because
their parents are not practicing. They don't know if their children
have lost the faith or not.
This is a sad case. At the end of the day, this world is limited.
It's only for so many years, as many years as it is it's only for
a limited, we've got another life to live, what are we forgetting
that we've got another life that is for eternity. There's great
things there. SubhanAllah. Right now on zum zum academy.com, you
will see that we've got the series on the paradise and its delights.
This is based on this huge work by YBNL paymill. Josie about it's a
whole review of paradise, you know, when you want to move into a
new area, you really read reviews about it online. This is about
paradise. Right? You know, subhanAllah This is about
paradise. It tells you everything about what it's going to look like
or it's going to be made of, and I don't even want to get into
certain places because you guys will get too excited. Right? But
that is what creates show. It creates a zeal, a desire, an
interest. And that's what we want for us and our progeny until
the last day. That's why there's a beautiful day of the prophets of
Allah Salam Robina Hublin I mean, as far as you know, the reality
now Kurata Aryan, which are under the mattina Imam, if anybody's got
trouble in their family, and even if you don't have trouble, this is
a dua for it. Oh Allah, this is for men and women. Robina
hablando. I mean, as Vergina Oh, Allah, O our Lord grant us from
our spouses, the wife can read it for the husband, the husband can
read it for the wife, because Oh Allah, Oh my Lord, grant us from
our spouses. And from
not just children, but our generations, our descendants,
because the word uses with Valeriya, the Reott. The RIA means
everybody who's going to come from you until the day of judgment. A
lot of them you will not even see. But on the day of judgment, if
your DUA has been accepted, you will see them and somebody will
say that's your great, great, great, great grandson.
And look what he did. Look what she did, and say, Wow, he's going
to gladden your eyes, and that's why the DUA says Robina Hublin I
mean, as far as you know, the reality now Kurata Aryan which
Tokina EMA wonderful though, if it gets success, one of my favorite
favorite doors should make it after every prayer when you make
dua. So Oh Allah, Oh my Lord grant me from my spouse's and my Nussle,
my gender my descendants, including children, everybody,
those that will clad in our eyes. That will be a source of coolness
for my eyes and make us
an Imam for them.
with Turkey in for the believers, which means that make me a force
for good that if I'm going to do anything, and I'm going to be a
leader in any aspects, it's for the good people. I'm not going to
be a leader of evil. So wonderful though if it's accepted,
especially, especially those who are doing any kind of Hitman of
the deen, whether in a masjid, the bleak, whatever it may be this do
eyes and not just for them for everybody because then Allah will
accept us. Allah will accept us inshallah. So these are the
challenges that we are facing. Abdul Rahman live now, as I
mentioned, just to finally,
when he passed away, he had more than one wife, you have two or
three wives. Now just to give you an understanding wives get the
wife or wives get 1/8. If they have children, then from the
inheritance laws, they get one eight. If they have no children,
then they get one quarter, right? Otherwise, they get a woman, one
eight. If there's more than one wife, they get a share of one
eight. Now, that's why women don't like to have co wives, because
they get less money. Right? That's not the reason. They just don't
want it okay.
Now,
every one of his wives just to give you an idea of how much his
huge assets were, every one of his wives reached received this huge
amount that they did a recent calculation of it. Huge amount
that was just from 1/8. Can you imagine the rest and before he had
passed away sometime before he had given so much how in South Africa
but the balance was that he still I showed Mr. Bashara.
He is still going to Jannah guaranteed with lots of money,
enjoyed this world, enjoyment of the hereafter. That's the tough
one. That's what we need to ask Allah for help. This is our
challenge and our fitna, we ask Allah for success. We ask Allah
for Tofik. And the way to do this, every day, every day, to records
of salata. Hajah, just to records for the sake of Allah and then Oh
Allah accept me somehow for the service of God.
Allah knows how he can excel, you may be a housewife, you may be a
taxi driver, you may be a painter, you may be an IT guy, you don't
know how to help. Allah knows. He will use you.
Just ask. Don't underestimate Allah's power. Don't say, Oh, I
can't do this. So why should I ask? You're just limiting
yourself. Ask Allah. Oh Allah make me a worry of Allah. Oh Allah make
me a weenie. Make me of the Saudi hain. Make me of those who do
tahajud every night, make me a halfling of the Quran. You could
be 5060 years old and say, Make me a harvest of the Quran. If you
have that in mind, you really have the zeal, Allah will open it up
for you. I have know a number of people who are doing hymns in late
age and they finished some of them. So what a possibility.
Ask Allah subhana wa Tada May Allah subhanaw taala bless you all
for coming here for inviting me here. And may Allah subhanaw taala
make this a useful gathering. A lot of these were thoughts,
reflections of the challenges that we face because we have very
similar challenges. And we ask Allah to help us and assist us and
protect us and protect our next generation and accept us for the
service of his Deen in some way make us contributors and our laws
don't make us burden on anybody else. Make us contributors make us
people respect us. Of those people respect and the value make us of
those who are valuable. We're going to have to do something for
that. Well, I could read that one and if Hamdu lillahi rabbil
aalameen Cassandra Bharatiya then Sheila cron Allahumma Yo yo yo, yo
yo Rama Deaconess delete Allahumma Yohanna yum in La ilaha illa and
Subhanak in good naman allottee mean
Subhan Allah Hinari
Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala early say even
Mohamed El Burdick wa salam. O Allah we ask You for Your Mercy, O
Allah, we ask You for Your forgiveness of Allah we ask you to
treat us with with your mercy and your blessing of Allah we have
many sins of Allah we have committed many sins, we have
committed many transgressions. We have committed many, many, many,
many sins and transgressions we have many shortcomings of Allah we
ask you forgiveness from all such sin that has brought misery in our
lives. Oh Allah we ask you forgiveness from all the sins that
have turned families against each other of Allah, we ask you for
forgiveness from all of those sins that have removed the baraka and
blessing from our lives. Oh Allah we want you we want you to make us
close to you. Oh Allah we want you to consider us for your love. Oh
Allah grant us your love and the love of those who love you. Oh
Allah make our surrounding conducive for us of Allah allow us
to rise to meet the challenge.
Just Oh Allah grant us the strength and understanding of
Allah grant us the strength and understanding of how to deal Oh
Allah, those of the first generation did so much work and
effort to build these Islamic institutions here. Oh Allah and to
entrench the Muslim community here. Oh Allah Now it is our
responsibility to continue this work and to meet the new
challenges. And Oh Allah, we ask that you make us of those who will
contribute, oh Allah make us successful in everything that we
do. Oh Allah grant us success in this world. But above all, grant
us success in the hereafter. Oh Allah allow us to see in this
world what will benefit us in view of the hereafter? Oh Allah don't
make us short sighted that we only think about this world in the next
50 years. But Allah allow us to be farsighted and prudent, and to
allow us to think about how our efforts in this world will affect
our hereafter. Oh Allah we want greatness in this world. But oh
Allah we want also genital third dose of Allah we also want genital
fear dose of Allah we want to be there in the company of your
messengers of Allah, the shahada, the Saudi heme, the seed, the team
of Allah, we know that these are small mouths, these are weak
hearts, these are sinful people who and we are sinful and we are
asking you these great things, but Allah we know that you can turn
the greatest sinner into your greatest worry in a moment in a
moment. Oh Allah do not allow any one of us to return from here
today without being forgiven. Oh Allah grant us forgiveness of
Allah grant us forgiveness, grant us purity of Allah grant us
purity, grant us Tofik grant us understanding grant us knowledge
Oh Allah make the that what is right and that what is wrong, very
clear for us, allow us to follow what is right and allow us to
abstain from what is wrong of Allah allow us, allow us to help
and assist others. Allow us to be a force for good. Oh Allah allow
us to be forceful, good. Allow us to be protective of ourselves of
Allah and our next generations to come. Oh Allah the challenges out
there are seem to only be increasing. Oh Allah help our
Muslim Brothers, brothers and sisters around the world, wherever
they are, whatever persecution that they may be going through, oh
Allah help us and assist us and help them and assist them. And oh
Allah. We ask you to make us capable of dealing dealing with
the challenges of Allah grant us agraphia grant us well being Oh
Allah grant us healthy and well being grant us baraka and blessing
and everything that we have everything that you will give us
an O Allah make it a true source of guidance. Oh Allah, Oh Allah,
we ask that you make the best part of our life, the endings of our
life, and Oh Allah, we ask that you make the last words that we
can utter La ilaha illallah, Muhammad Rasool Allah, O Allah, O
Allah fulfill our permissible needs of Allah, those who are
sitting here, they could have been doing so many other things on this
Sunday afternoon. There are so many other distractions, but Oh
Allah, each one of these people decided to come here, oh Allah to
your house and to listen to listen to these words of Allah We ask
that you accept these words, you accept everybody here of Allah
that you accept everybody here and you grant them baraka in their
lives. And Allah those those responsibilities and tasks that
they still have outstanding. You allow them to complete them. Oh
Allah, we asked you one final thing that US you, you reward all
of those who have organized these pro these programs who have
organized these programs who have worked hard and all the Hitman the
service that they have given in disregard of Allah give them a
great reward for this. Allow them to be a force for great change,
allow them to do many other good things. And Allah bless us all.
And we ask you finally that you send your abundant blessings on
our messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and that you
grant us his company in the hereafter. Subhan Allah because
Allah is at their mercy for when our Salah when added more So Nina
will Hamdulillah you