Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Keeping the Faith
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Rila here Abdullah Alameen wa salatu salam ala Murthy Ramadan
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call Allah huzzah Baraka Ouattara, Allah, Phil Quran and Maji the
word for carnal Hamid, one Tamil Ilona In Kuntum, meaning
dear friends, dear all the friends
they are Allama
let me just tell you a quick story.
I generally don't use these kinds of stories, but this one is one of
those classical stories that you would have generally heard.
And I think it's a really, really, really good story. So I'm going to
mention it. Do you like stories?
Harun Rashid was one of the greatest of the above six beliefs.
And he became a Hanif at a time when already the Abbas Khalifa
Caliphate was quite extended anyway. And he had a huge amount
of land and people under his control.
One day, he's walking along the seashore.
I'm not sure which river it was, but it was walking along the
seashore. And he see this he sees this old man who was in his
kingdom. In his area, his name was Balloon.
Balloon was this older man who used to be a bit eccentric.
Eccentric means is a bit unique in the way he does things. He's not
the normal kind of guy. So we've got children here. We need to keep
it relevant to them. It's quite a task, isn't it? I was sitting
upstairs listening to your toes like okay, there's children there.
Because
so you understand what eccentric means now, right? is a bit unique
and a bit different.
So you know what that old man was doing? He was building
sandcastles.
And have you ever seen an old man building sandcastles right now now
you have. He was building sandcastles, these palaces. So
Harun Rashid is walking along with his wife. Anybody know his wife's
name?
Zubaydah, good job not zuleikha, right Zubaydah that was his wife's
name. He was actually the daughter of one of the greatest of the
basilica leaves me Abuja for a monsoon. We actually built
Baghdad, who was the one who established Baghdad as the double
Khilafah after the OMA yet he moved it to Baghdad in Iraq. So
Zubaydah was a really wonderful woman who has done a lot of
welfare work. She was also the one responsible for bringing water to
the hajis in Mina and was very far off by a canal because there was
no water source in those days and the hajis used to find it very
difficult. This was obviously several 100 over 1000 years ago.
So as they walk in, he's in front and he sees this balloon making
Santa Claus sandcastles is a balloon. What are you doing? He
says I'm making palaces of Jannah
and I'm selling them for one dinar apiece.
So I'm selling them for maybe maybe 50 pound for one.
Right. So Harun Rashid is obviously a Halevi is a
businessman. He says who's going to give you one dinar for a
sandcastle? So he carries on
his wife comes along and again she sees him building the sand cause
he says what are you doing? He said I'm building palaces of Jana
and I'm selling them for one dinar apiece. So she said okay, I'll buy
one from you. Right women are more emotional less business minded in
that sense. So okay, I'll buy one for whatever reason she bought it.
So she buys one for one dinar.
At nighttime Haroon Rashid goes to sleep as he does every night and
he sees a dream. And in that dream, he sees himself in paradise
in Jannah. And as he's walking in Jannah, he suddenly sees this
huge, beautiful palace, and emblazoned across the front is
Zubaydah, that this is the Vedas palace. So he thinks it's his
wife, his wife spices can I go and look at it from the gut to the
gods. He says, Can I go and look at it? Can I go and inspect it? He
says, No, you're not allowed. This is your wife's palace. When he
wakes up in the morning, he really realizes that he should have also
bought one of those sandcastles. Would you have bought one? If
you'd seen it for one dinner?
No. Well, you probably don't have the dinner right? That's why.
So when he wakes up in the morning, he feels really upset
that I've missed out on an opportunity. So the next morning,
then, when the next day he says I'm gonna go back to the same
place, hoping that balloon is making sandcastle by one alibi,
maybe a few today.
So he goes and Yes, surely there is balloon making sandcastles,
says balloon. What are you doing? He says, I'm making palaces of
Jannah. And I'm selling them. He says, Okay, I'm gonna take a view.
He says, Yeah, today, each one is equivalent to your entire kingdom.
So he says, What's the problem? Yesterday? They were one dinner,
maybe 50 100 pounds. And today you're asking for the entire
kingdom. So you said Yes, yesterday they were it was based
on Iman Bill heap. And today, it's Iman Bill mu Shahada. What that
means, basically, is that yesterday, if you purchased it, it
would have been like you're bringing faith with the unseen,
just based on what you hear from a wise man. And today, you know what
you're gonna get you know what it's worth, and that's why the
cost of it is higher.
Essentially, today, we don't understand the value of our faith.
And hence, we're not willing to give much to it.
Our Deen of Islam is
a faith. That is one of the biggest things in our faith is as
Allah says, In the beginning and spiritual Bukhara. And if la meme
vertical kita will already Buffy. And then towards the end of that
it says a Lavina you may Luna believe a Latina, you mean when
they believe the people who believe in the unseen? Have you
guys ever seen paradise hellfire? Have you seen Allah, you have not
seen any of this. So that is our faith is primarily based on that.
It's a big idea. Without that, there'd be nothing you could do.
For example, let's give you an example. There's a Hadith of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam were the prophets Allah
Some said that I genuinely am real movement for in Umrah who couldn't
who hide
what a wonderful state, it is for the believer, any believer, as
long as they're true believers, because every state of his is a
good one. Whether you're having difficulty in your life, and
you're going through a difficult time, whether that's with a leak
in your car, God forbid, you've just lost somebody an accident, or
whatever the case is, or you're enjoying your life, you've just
enjoyed a wonderful meal, you've just had a promotion at work,
you've just had mashallah new child, you've just got a new job,
whatever the case is, regardless of your state, the believer state
is always a good one, as long as they deal with it with belief. And
then the professor also makes a very bold claim. This is he says,
for nobody but the believer.
This is for nobody but the believer. Then he gives an example
that if you are in good times, and you make sugar and thank Allah,
then that will be good for you.
And if you are having bad times, and you make supper and you're
patient, then that's good for you.
So what does this exactly mean? Firstly, let's just take the
difficult times when you have difficult times, especially if you
become helpless. Just imagine that something happens and you contact
somebody to help you and they can't you conduct somebody else
and they can't. Generally the human being goes to other people
to get help. Well, they first they go to themselves. When they can't
do it themselves, then they go to others. Now you've asked your
uncle, you've asked your father, you've asked your friend, nobody
can help you. Suddenly, the world starts becoming smaller and
constrained. And you start feeling like this is difficult. Now nobody
can help me.
We should have gone to Allah first while asking others. Now the
believer, the half decent believer will go to Allah eventually.
Now imagine if you had no belief in Allah, how would you even feel
in that situation that helplessness? Take another person
imagine the guy in Syria or in Kashmir or anywhere else, right,
where they're being persecuted. They can't call out to anybody.
There's nobody to help them. Even other Muslims around the world of
whatever it is. It's just nobody to help them because it's the way
it's done. They're absolutely helpless. Just imagine the mental
turmoil this person would go through. What is it that can give
them any hope? If it's not for Iman, what can give them hope.
There's nothing that can give you hope.
Now Eman only gives you hope. Because you know that Allah is
watching. He's in control. He is He is
planning the best for you. And at the end of the day, there is a
paradise. There is a day of judgment when all of these people
who've oppressed you that you can't do anything against them,
because they're well connected. You go to the police, they're
connected to the police, you know, maybe not in the UK as much but in
other countries, you go to the police. For example. There's a
person who's just been dropped off
100,000 pounds in India, somebody took his 700,000 pounds, right? So
why don't you go to the police, he says if I go to the police, then
put him in prison, I won't get my money yet, then what they'll do is
they'll tell him that look, we're going to make it really difficult
for you unless you pay us because they know he's got the money
somewhere.
So he'll stop paying them. And then I will have to stop paying
them to get the job done faster, and they will keep going back
between myself and him and making money that way. And God knows when
I'll get justice. That's the state in some countries, you guys from
back, it's not nothing is any better there. I'm hoping it's
better there. Right. But that's the situation in many countries
around the world. You just feel helpless, there's nothing you can
do, we should make sure that we have something like that here. You
feel like you can have redress. So imagine a person like that What
else has he got up to hold on to except faith in Allah subhanho wa
Taala that okay, fine, if I can just overcome it here Inshallah,
in the Hereafter, there will be a day of judgment. And there will be
no context for this person to,
to invoke on his side, he will be in trouble and I will be in sha
Allah given a status in Jannah. Now, generally, when it's a
difficult time, we may remember Allah. But when it's a good time,
then we forget to remember Allah subhanaw taala. Because what
happens is that when you when everything is going right, when
you have money to spend, when you can get what you want, the
clothing you want, the food you want to eat, then that creates
this is the nature of the world, it creates a false sense of
confidence, and comfort. So you don't need to think about
helplessness. Because you think it's all happening for you. It's
all working. So when everything is going right, you don't remember
Allah as much. But the prophets Allah is saying that for a
believer, they should be remembering Allah in both states.
Then the benefit of that is, imagine you've just had a
wonderful meal, there's a new restaurant in town or wherever you
guys go to eat, and mashallah you have a smacking, you know, lip
smacking meal, it was really good, really tasty, well,
well worth the price you paid for it. You've just enjoyed yourself.
If you do sugar to Allah and you remember Allah subhanaw taala in
the right way that will that selfish indulgent act will
actually make you closer to Allah subhanaw taala. As long as it's
not haram.
That's the beauty of our faith. You enjoy yourself and you thank
Allah, you enjoy yourself in a halal way. You thank Allah and you
get closer to Allah. And the promises. I've said, this is not
for anybody but a believer. Why is it not for anybody but a believer,
it is only believers are going to think I'm gonna get reward for
something like this. Or I'm going to the sacrifice that myself or my
mother is doing for the cancer that she is
that she's suffering from.
If she dies from that, she is going to be a shahid which means
that she's got a straight way to paradise in the hereafter.
Who else believes that except believers, so now the atheists,
they're going to tell you, you're just making yourself feel good.
These are just all feel good factors, that you're going to be
rewarded if you do sugar, and you're going to be rewarded. If
you do sub, that there's something for you this is just to make you
feel good.
Some of you may have heard this, because this was basically relates
to this whole idea from some socialists like Karl Marx, etc,
that religion is just the opium of the masses. Essentially, the idea
is that
the idea is that it just puts you to sleep, it basically just puts
you into a state where you just go along with the status quo. So when
you hear a argument like that, that oh, that's just the feel good
factor. Sounds like an argument. It sounds like a criticism, it
sounds like a valid point. Now you have to remember, every point that
is made is not necessarily a valid point.
Regardless of how strong people make that point, you have to keep
that in mind. Because a lot of the time when people come up to us,
and they say something, and it sounds like a very strong point
because of the confidence with which they put it forward. And you
start feeling like hey, that is a point. I never thought about it
that way. That doesn't make it a correct and a valid point.
A simple response to that is that so what if it's a feel good
factor?
Don't human needs? Don't human beings need feel good factors to
basically ease themselves through this life? What's wrong with that?
I will ask the atheist that your auntie who died from cancer after
suffering 10 years from it? What did she get out of it?
What do you think that atheists will say when they don't believe
in the hereafter? 10 years of
10 years of misery, difficulty not just for her but the people around
her that cared for that difficulty is a difficult it's a very painful
way to go. What did she get out of it? What did you get out of it?
What do you think you'll say?
I can say that my mother who passed away Rahim Allah from 10
years of cancer, I'm going to say she's a Shaheed that's going to
make me feel good.
I believe in it, but it's going to make me feel good. It's going to
let me deal with it.
I know she died not for I know she died. I know she did not die for
nothing.
Because in our tradition in our in our sunnah, the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam has mentioned in our sermon that the person has mentioned up
to 70 types of people who die Usher Hades without being on the
battlefields. There are up to 70 types of people. That means people
die in accidents, people die with a stomach problem, people who die
in a plague, pregnancy, other illnesses, and so on and so forth.
They don't share heats of this world. So you still have to bury
them and deal with them in the same way as you would normal
death. But in the hereafter the rise of Shaheed as martyrs,
martyrs of a very special place.
So yes, it's a feel good factor. But Hamdulillah, I'm willing to
have that feelgood factor is not what's wrong with that, at least
I've got a way to deal with it. That's why people with religion,
and community are the happiest people. This is what studies show.
So all our ad saying it's just a claim at the end of the day.
It's just that the longest,
the longest study ever done in the world, like academic study, from a
university was done by Harvard. And it's gone to about 80 years,
70 or 80 years. And they started when some of these guys were very
young, or from their fathers. And it's about trying to find how to
gain happiness. So they've tracked people for over 70 years. And
they've been having, you know,
what do you call it interviews with them, they've been watching
them, they've been, you know, assessing them throughout. And
they've discovered that one of the greatest things that give makes
you happy, is to have a good social life, to be good with your
family, to have a good family life.
I mean, Islam has been telling us about this, that you can't break
your family life. You can't sorry, break family connections.
And the one thing that you have to remember is that when he says that
up to three days, that is for none, blood relatives, with blood
relatives, you're not even allowed to break even for a moment. In
order three days, that's when none blood relatives like a friend or
neighbor or somebody. And you know what the wisdom of the three days
is?
Have you ever experienced the difference between you break up
with somebody and you make it up straight away. And if you broke up
for a week or two weeks, and then try to make up? Which one is more
difficult?
The second one, because what happens is that if I'm your
friend, right, and we break up, I depend, I've got some dependencies
on you. Because we do things together, you know, I talk to you,
I speak to you, I need you, you need me. Now, after three days,
I'm going to start looking elsewhere to fill the gap. So the
longer you leave it, it's much more difficult to come to
reconcile. So there's a certain benefit in the three days that we
have.
My talk was supposed to be in atheism, we got young people, I
don't want to confuse them more. So that's why I'm adjusting my
talk. All I want to tell you is that we've got certain beliefs in
Islam, that seem to go against science. They said to go against
science. For example, the mirage of the Prophet Allah, you've heard
of the Mirage right when the sun went up to two Masjid Luxa. And
then from there, he went up to the heavens, to meet Allah subhanho wa
taala. And he came back now that he went at a time where it was
impossible just to go from Mocha, mocha Rama to Madina, Munawwara in
one night, nowadays, you can do that. But in those days, you
couldn't even go from Morocco, Morocco to Medina when I went on
Medina to Makkah, but now you can. So the Mirage on a winged animal,
the Baroque, like a winged horse or whatever you want to call it.
So essentially, there's a Muslim Auntie in the media, and as he is
in the middle of a meeting, somebody asked him that, also you
actually believe that that happens, that that happened, that
your prophet that you're a Muslim, so does that mean that your your
Prophet went up to the heavens, on this winged creature? Can you see
the way that asking the question to make it sound absurd? And he
said, Yes, I do. Which is a very bold thing to be able to say
there. Because it's very difficult when people have
been essentially what's happened in this country in particular, and
in many other countries in Europe, although there's some countries in
Europe that are still primarily Catholic, and they still have a
real strong religious ethos like,
like Slovakia, Hungary and all these places, but Western ones,
especially England is totally, religion doesn't matter anymore.
Hardly. You don't even have to say I'm a Christian anymore. It's not
even a good thing to say that. Basically, Christianity has been
pushed out. Christianity was the religion of Europe along with
Judaism. Judaism then went through huge persecution of the beginning
of the early parts of the 19th century, right? Especially in
places like France, and what do you call it, Hungary, in Vienna,
and Slovakia and all of these countries.
So they were pushed out. Now Christian Christians haven't been
pushed out, but Christianity has. That means if you go to work, you
have to leave your Christianity at the door.
You can't bring it inside the laboratory, or the office. Right?
Which means that's why there's even a cross about whether they
question about whether they can wear a cross or not. Hijab is a
cross can even be hidden, hijab is a big issue, right? Because that's
in your face. Right? So that's why you understand now why we have a
problem. Right? Why we have a run because it's secularism, anti
religion, that wants to basic that has basically driven out
Christianity, from all the public spaces from the media even, except
in a bad way, except to disparage it and criticize it, and the
workplace and other places and the schools, for example.
So Islam to come into there is much more difficult because we are
much more overt, much more clear in the our dress in our prayer in
wanting to pray five times a day. Christians don't have to do that.
Right. As long as they pray on Sunday, they could probably get
away with it, the very religious ones. That's why we're having that
difficulty. The other thing that's happening in Europe is that
secularism and capitalism is basically doing away with the, the
local traditions.
The British, if there was an old English tradition of some sort,
that's why they can't even define Britishness anymore. We're part of
Britishness, but they don't want us to be, but we're part of it, I
think, that can't be reversed now, in terms of the food and
everything else, but the old traditions around Europe, they're
all dying out because of capitalism, and soy, and
consumerism and everything else. So they're finding that they're
losing all of this. And the big enemy that they can see in front
of them, is basically Islam because we have the most outward
expressions of faith. That's why one of the reasons why they hate
us so much, why it's difficult for us to assimilate in that sense.
But what I want to say here, is that we are living in a time when
many of these miracles you know, as I said, the, the,
the meta Hodge, when Abu Bakr Radi Allahu Anhu was told by Abuja
Hello, I think that your friend, is saying that he went in one
night, from here, all the way up to the heavens, and he came back
Jerusalem up to the heavens, and he came back, would you believe
that?
If he says, So, yes, him believing that and us believing that his was
a much greater achievement. Today, this is not even. You see, in
those days, it was from the realm of impossibilities to do that
because you could not even think of going from Madina Munawwara to
mark Kumbhakarna, in one night and back, so forget to the other end
of you know, to to Jerusalem and up to the heavens, that was just
impossible. Today, these things are not impossible for us. So if
somebody does ask you, that you believe that your Prophet went up
to the heavens in one night and came back? Do you believe that?
Yes, I do believe that. But I'm going to convince you that it's a
possibility. I'm going to try to convince you reason is
that things have changed now. People in those days hadn't gone
anywhere. Now they've gone beyond the Earth, which was something
impossible before. They've gone beyond they've gone to the moon
unless you're
one of the monkeys one of the there are people who believe that
no, nobody went on the moon, right?
A rover has gone on to Mars. Right? And there are things out
there in space, which was impossibility before, right.
They've broken that barrier. They've gone they've opened up the
realm of possibility. They've done some other tests and physics tests
of
teleportation is on it's not there yet, but they've shown these
things that now anybody looking at the signs today will say, Okay,
it's difficult, but it doesn't seem impossible anymore, because
we've already gone
Some distance now, you see what I'm saying? We're already going
some distance. He didn't have a space suit on. So what?
Right now we need a spacesuit to withstand the pressures of outer
of outer space. But with the way things are going, and developments
in science and technology, how difficult is it for them to
eventually come up with a spray that could spray some resistance
on your something else? Right? Take a pill and you'd be resistant
out there. Do you see what I'm saying? Because of the way science
is going?
Can you see how no longer doesn't sound so absurd anymore? When you
look at it from that perspective, if you look at it purely from a
religious perspective, that is just a myth, an idea, then
suddenly, you find it difficult to argue, you provide some opening,
that's all our responsibility is, by the way, if somebody asks you
about Mirage, all you have to show to them that look, it's possible,
it's possible now to get out of the confines of this earth and go
to a certain degree. So why is it difficult? Why is it difficult
that maybe in 100 years, 200 years, we may go beyond that, and
the progress that has has already been there and done that? Right.
Another example
is Omar, the Alana is standing in the masjid on a Jumar. So this has
been seen and observed and experienced by all he's giving his
cultivar in among the sahaba. And suddenly, he turns icon is the
right or left. And he started saying Saudia was the name of a
person sadiya, algebra, algebra, the mountain the mountain, like
he's suddenly
warning, somebody that Be careful, beware of the mountain, there's an
enemy behind the mountain. So there's no Saudia there. Sorry, it
was actually miles away, hundreds of miles away in a wall, and on
one of them started talking to him.
See what I'm saying? Everybody witnessed this. Some people
recorded the time that it happened. And when Satya came
back, they asked him what happened. And he basically said
that I heard his sound, I heard his voice telling me to be careful
about because we were standing God somewhere and there was an enemy
behind the mountain, which we did not know about. Had we not heard
his voice, we would have been attacked. Sounds absurd. Sounds
like myth. But it was witnessed by everybody. Okay, we only know that
from Hadith anyway. So again, but today, that's a possibility.
Today, 100 years ago, has still been difficult to understand this
today. How difficult is that? I mean, today, maybe what I have to
do is I have to pull up my phone, I'm giving you a clip button. I've
actually seen this I was once in Norway. And MC he started the
program. And sent me is me and Mala MIDI. Right? We were in this
auditorium, he starts introducing the program and suddenly really
gets a call and he actually takes it.
You actually sound like, we're just loving I head off right now
that my phone and speak to them. Right? It might surprise you. But
I can do it now. Right? I can speak to somebody, imagine if I,
God forbid, there's people who've left their children in cars. And
they forgotten. And it's a hot day. Imagine somebody realized
that he opened his phone in the middle of a meeting. And it sounds
a bit absurd. But you can do that nowadays. Okay, I have to pull out
a phone. Actually, I don't have to, I could have an earpiece,
right? Today, I still have to have an earpiece. But tomorrow, you
might just have a chip here that will allow you to take calls from
people. The technology allows that kind of thing now, it's within the
realm of possibilities. Does that story of all of them now sound
absurd to you? Doesn't that sound a possibility? Now?
Allah subhanaw taala has opened up so much today, for us to be able
to understand these things that essentially what they did was in
another way they are actually Allah is showing us through them
what technology may do in the future. I mean, that's one way to
look at it.
Right. That's why we Islam has never had a problem with
technology. Our only problem is technology is not the ethical one
of why you're doing this. It's about how you use technology, over
indulgence on your phone and the distraction it creates, and the
marriages it breaks up. And the disturbance to work. And all of
that that's what the problem is that's created by that. Basically,
what I'm trying to say my message today is simple.
If you want a good faith Alhamdulillah majority, I mean
whether that's Alhamdulillah or otherwise Alhamdulillah we all
Muslims, right? But most of us here seem to be Muslims by birth.
And one of the downfalls of that. The one of the good things is that
you got it by default. One of the downfalls is that we don't try to
really understand our faith if I ask the adults here, right, that
since you are in maktab right
That's probably the only time that you got a more intense
understanding of what our faith is the McCobb things that you learn
from our parents, and then maybe what you got through Beyonce, but
in terms of taking a course to really understand Hadith, or
Quran, or the jury, the majority of us haven't taken it, and it's
available nowadays. There's no complaints. You can take them
online on site, Jamia Abu Bakr, Abdullah Massoud, and all these do
to add on courses, you should do some right.
There are so many opportunities. If you build your faith and
experience it, the person who can stand up in tahajud at night and
then do dua to Allah subhanho wa Taala and feel the presence of
Allah, no argument is going to mess him up. No argument is going
to corrupt him because they felt it.
But if our faith is not based on experience, it just based on do's
and don'ts, somebody may mislead us. That's why I tried to find
Allah and the way to find Allah is by remembering Him. And when
Latina Alladhina amanu a shadow Hogben Lila, the people who
believe who are Mothman, who are believers are supposed to be the
most ardent and strongest in the love for Allah. How do you gain
increased Love of Allah that is more than anything else. That's
the secret of success in this world and the Hereafter. And the
way to get that is by reciting the Quran with meaning with reflection
and reciting in general, number two by doing vicar of Allah.
Because if Allah is not in the heart, by us taking his name over
whether the charisma of big wealth charisma robic with Burisma,
Arabic, Allah says in the Quran, remember the Name of your Lord.
That's what we mean by remembering Allah if you sit down to remember
Allah, what are you going to remember you can think of because
Allah is beyond any description, so you can't think of Allah like
that. The way to think of Allah to remember Allah is through his
name.
La ilaha illa, Allah, Allah, Allah Subhan, Allah Alhamdulillah then
they say that you will go from Allah will take you from the name
to the name, Dawn, Allah will give you that experience. So every day
we need to spend at least 510 minutes doing extra thicker beyond
our solid.
Otherwise the real status of a believer eventually should be a
Lavina. If Quran Allah has to come and walk through the wider jungle
beam, that wherever they are, whatever they are, whatever they
doing, they should be in remembrance of Allah, meaning the
heart is connected to Allah subhanaw taala. That's why we were
just in Uzbekistan. And then when you go to what's his name? Bow the
next one Rahmatullah here is Mazhar. He's there's two ideas
that which came, his idea was to try to bring remembrance while
you're doing your work. So don't make vicar just a separate thing
you do, where you have to separately sit down and do vicar.
His idea was to make vicar a reality throughout your day. So he
came up with two ideas. One, it says,
best Bakar deal by er, which basically means your hand is on
your job, but your your heart is with your Lord. So you're there in
a sorting office, and mashallah we have one Maulana, who was up in
one of the Lancashire he worked in a sorting office
post of his sorting office and he finishes one Quran every day.
He finishes the Quran everyday while he's at work six, seven
hours sorting, sorting post, right? He's what his hand is on
his work, and his heart is somewhere else. It's it's not easy
to you have to do a lot of liquor to get to that state, but that
should be your audience. So then you will be remembering a lot with
your standing sitting or lying down. And the second thing he
said, this concept is Persian in Farsi is hello what the Anjuman so
you're sitting in a group of people and they just a lot of our
majorities are a lot of our gatherings are just a waste of
time sometimes, right? But then he's connected to Allah. He's got
Hello, he's got solitude, he's with Allah, him and Allah, even
though he's sitting among people, you're sitting on a bus, a train
going to work and mashallah you're there with Allah, wherever you
are. If you get in sha Allah, Allah give us that state. But when
you get that kind of a state, nothing can bother you because the
strongest faith is the experiential faith. Not the one
who evidences because evidences can have other evidences, counter
evidences, but the ones who experience and for the parents
here, this is what we need to try to inculcate in our children
because it's more necessary than ever. The atmosphere outside the
environment outside in the schools and you know, the battles that are
taking place. It's for the minds and hearts of the children now,
right? That's what it is to
induct
You need to pollute and so on. If you don't have strong faith in the
heart that is not just based on namaz Pirlo
but why namaste so that even when you were not around our children
pray nomas perform prayer. How do you get that? If you don't know us
the other marble that that's what the topic that's, that's what we
should be aiming at now we need to take it a notch higher because the
battle is a notch higher. It's a serious it's there's a difficulty
we ask Allah subhanaw taala for assistance we ask Allah subhanaw
taala for help We ask Allah to give us that understanding and
that closeness and that vigor. Just Oh come on.