Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Missing Hajj for a Phone Charger
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respected friends. Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatu.
In this life,
it's a constant struggle to determine what's important, what's
the need? What's a goal? Anybody who gets that decision, right?
That kind of analysis, right? They succeed.
When a person recognizes what the goals are for this light for this
life, and they start recognizing that this is what I should be
aiming for, because that is what's going to be most beneficial for
me, then they start having a very successful life. Because once
you've got a goal in mind, then everything that you do generally
becomes conducive to that goal. If you don't have a goal, or your
goal is incorrect, or it's a very short sighted goal, a person is
not prudent enough to think really for the future. And they think
just for tomorrow, when I say tomorrow, I mean, any part of this
life is tomorrow. Because when you compare that to the infinite life
of the hereafter, the endless, eternal life of the hereafter,
then really, as many years as we may spend in this life, it comes
to nothing when you compare it to infinity, there's just no
comparison whatsoever. Because if you take a chain that is made up
of seven links, or 70 links, and you have another chain that just
goes on endlessly, and then you want to compare those two chains
together, one chain one chain one chain on this one, one chain on
this one, you will end when it gets to 70, you'll end with 70 on
that one, but that will carry on, there's just no comparison. So
what the exercise is that we need to be successful at is to
determine what is our goal, what is urgent, what's the need, what
is important, but what is the goal, that is the most important
thing that we can determine. And if we determine that, then we are
successful. So for example, if we do a little comparison of this
world in the Hereafter, if any of our decisions, any decision we
make, whether that be in what course you will take at
university, in the business that you will do in whether you should
visit somebody or not whether you should come to the masjid or not
for that matter, whether you should commit this, that or the
other, perpetrate the sin or whatever the case is, if our
entire discussion decision is based on this world alone, than
the hereafter will not factor into it at all, then that decision is
only for this world. Now, the great thing is that if we have the
hereafter the back of our minds at least, and it always factors into
any decision that we make, we're still going to be making decisions
for this world, but they will have a bearing on our hereafter. So for
example, what do I mean by that, if you're making a decision just
for this world, then you're going to make a decision to go and study
this course or that course because you just enjoy it, maybe, because
you think it brings in a lot of money. Because people who have
that particular vocation or occupation, or that kind of
speciality or specialization, they make a lot of money. So I'm gonna
make a lot of money, they move into these big houses, you know,
in this particular area, or whatever it is, they drive these
certain cars, that's my goal. But that goal is all restricted to
this world. So that will be my decision. If my decision is the
hereafter, then suddenly I'll be I'll be thinking differently, I'll
be thinking on a more broader term. So for example, I've got a
friend who memorize the Quran with me together, then he left went to
university, and he started medicine. Now in his medicine, he
then because his whole focus was also driven by the hereafter. It
wasn't purely just to be a good a doctor just to make a lot of money
in this world. But it was also that how can I focus on the
hereafter by helping people additionally, helping Muslims
around the world with my vocation and my medical degree, so he
decided to take tropical medicine, because he thought that this is
going to help Muslims in countries where they need help if I have
this understanding. So he's still got a specialization still makes
his money and Allah give him Baraka, right? But the additional
benefit is that every moment he spent doing that degree he also
was rewarded by Allah subhanaw taala. That's something he can
stand
Not without the Day of Judgment and say something about, likewise
with your business, you're going to do a business for whatever the
case is, Allah is going to give you whatever it is that you're
doing. However, if you're, you're, you're, you're in your decision
there is also based on the hereafter. So that's factored into
it, it will color your business, it will basically inform your
business, it will add baraka and blessing to your business. So your
blood, your your business now, from whatever time in the morning
to whatever time it is, because generally the way we are, we are
in the shop, if you've got a business, that's the way
businesses are, you're in the shop from this time to this time, then
for the rest of time, when you're out of the shop, the shop is
inside you. That's how business works, isn't it, you're in the
business. And when you're not in the business, the bins, the
businesses inside you, right, that's the occupation of it. But
the benefit of it is that you will give us that benefit in the
hereafter as well.
Now,
as nicest things may be in the world, we have to make a
distinction between whether they are a need or an objective. Is
this my objective? Or is this my needs.
And based on that we know how much commitment to give it, that's
basically the decision we're going to have to take. Now, there's a
lot of things in this world that seem very nice, very enjoyable.
And that is why there's an attraction in the world. Whenever
you have an attraction to anything, it's going to challenge
you. Whenever you're attracted to something, it's attracted to
something in you, you have to then intellectually decide whether it's
good for me this attraction or not, that's essentially what you
call a fitna a challenge, an attraction that makes you that,
that challenges you to whether stay on your principles, or give
up your principles and do something just because there's an
attraction to something. Now, if it was that they'd only we, we
were such that our attractions would only be to virtue
Hamdulillah. But the problem is that's not the case, we are
attached to many things that we know are very harmful for us. I
mean, as the children, we start from a young age being attracted
to things and that's why parents have to say, don't do this, don't
do that. You can only spend one hour on your computer, or your DS
or whatever else that you play at home. Right? No more than that,
try to take that machine away from them after an hour, and you have a
tantrum on your hands. It is so addictive. That even if you're
regulating your children with computers, right with games and so
on, trying to get them off, there is another chore they will extend
that for another two hours only five minutes left five minutes,
definitely you know you're not on top of their head you you have to
do your own things as well. So eventually what happens is, man
you've been on there two hours extra now Come on, get off. Not
only you were able to do it is because we say that you know the
if you don't get off on time, then that is how much time you lose
from the next day's opportunity. So you have to come up with these
ideas sometimes. But there's an attraction for all of us at all
ages, there's an attraction. That's the that is the world and
that's what makes the world a deception.
That is essentially what makes the world of deception why we call a
world deception is because of these attractions that we
naturally have within us. Xena Naseeha Bucha our 2 million Nisa
evil bunny and we'll find out even more Kuntala will have you all
filled though well Hayden was a woman while an army 130 kilometer
or higher the dunya these things have been adorned as Allah says in
the Quran. These things have been adorned for the human being the
love of their children, the love of animals, the love of cars
basically today, the love of these different forms of
attachments and attractions. They are basically a dormant Valley
Kamata or hayati, dunya, or is Allah saying, Is he saying this is
a goal? Or is he saying that these are just needs matter? That is a
matter of the higher to dunya that is Mata that's essentially an
instrument matar is an instrument, a utility, a tool by which you
live this life that he commentarial Higher dunya of the
life of this world. That's basically what all of these things
are, but they have been presented to us as attractions as
adornments, and that's why we want to embellish ourselves with it. So
give you an example. Somebody's going for Hajj.
Somebody's going for Hajj goes from here to one of those
cities transit cities, right, because it's not a direct flight
on Saudi airlines. Right. You go to a city in between whether it'd
be Amman, Jordan or whether it be Dubai with its with its malls,
right that Dubai duty free, right so he goes to Dubai duty free a
bolus him off his feet. He hasn't even got to Makkah. That's his
objective. What is his objective? Hajj? That's his objective. He's
been saving up for it for a while. He's been dreaming
about this for a while, but he gets to Dubai duty free. And I'm
not here to promote it, right. But the whole idea is that it is such
a glamorous glitzy place, that it balls him off his feet. And he has
an excuse to go and look for something because his charger
isn't working. His phone charger isn't working. And he thinks when
he gets to Saudi, he's going to need a charger. So he goes to look
for one in a in a in the duty free. He goes. And he finds how oh
the most the latest phones are out. Now he's into phones, right?
And who's not into phones? Right? So he goes and he starts looking
at the phones and start speaking of what's his phone, so good about
this, and what is so good about this, and this, that and the
other, and he misses his connection.
And he's going quite late. So there's very less flights. These
are like the final flights to get in. And there's going to be
nothing left now what he had a goal in mind. But there was a
need. It may have been an urgent need. But there was just a need.
It wasn't a goal. There was a need. Right, the need was to get a
charger. But in getting this charger in fulfilling this need.
He just about missed his objective.
This is just a simple example, a bit of a crazy example. But it's a
simple example. We do this in our life day in and day out. We're
constantly doing this just transplant this example this
sample into our lives. And you'll see that that's exactly what we're
doing. So
what we have to understand in this life is that we have what is our
goal in this life, to live in the ideal home as the ideal home
exhibition will tell you is that what the goal of this life is? The
goal of this life is not to only live well here, but the goal of
this life is to die well.
Now what a what a goal, to die well. Like I wonder how that would
sound to somebody who doesn't understand what we're talking
about. You need to die well brothers, man dead is death is
just something that ends this pleasure of this life. What are
you talking about dying? Well, how do you die? Well, what's the whole
point of dying? Well, what's death gone into it? It's the absence of
life. Why should I die? Well, let me live my life Well, before I
die, and I'm talking about dying. Well, that is a goal. That's an
objective. And the reason why it's a goal and an objective is because
dying well opens up for the believer, only great realms of the
Hereafter
to refer to remote, many remote. For a true believer, the gift of a
true believer is death. So dying well gives us an indication of
what kind of life is to follow. Of course, this is based on belief,
without belief. This entire discussion I'm having today is an
absolute waste of time. It's all hinges on belief. It's about
belief. I'm talking to believers, as the Prophet sallallahu sallam
said that if people frequent the masjid bear witness that they are
many in and they're believers. So our goal is not to live well. But
it's to die well, and in the process Alhamdulillah if you have
a higher Kumbaya, wonderful, then you will die well, then you will
die well, now, if you look at another example, you've got a
student, a studious person. Now for the student, you have
the students goal is to do well come up with the best marks with
the best grades that he can. So that that particular goal will
open doors up for other goals after it. Now within that
student's life of the attaining this goal, what else is going to
happen? He is going to have to eat, he has to sleep, and
everything else. Now how the sleep and food factor into this, they
are needs, they are needs that a person needs to achieve the goal.
That is why you see good students, they won't waste time sleeping too
much. They won't waste time eating too much and focusing on the best
of foods and everything else. If you go and look at student
housing, they're not necessarily the most ideal home that you want
to be in. That's how students are. Okay, generally speaking, however.
That's why the you'll see the distinction, you'll find out
what's the goal and what's the need. When it comes to the crunch
closer to exam times what happens to food and sleep. It decreases.
People aren't, they don't care about how many meals they get at
that time. They just about want to survive so that they can fulfill
their goal. So likewise, with a student, the goal is to do well,
we're asleep and everything is just ancillary. It's just
something on the side with just you just need for it.
Now, if a student makes his eating and drinking, and his living
quarters and everything, the objective and that's what he's
worried about adorning every day, going to home base every day to do
up his house, right and he forgets about the
The whole goal of why he's what he's supposed to be achieving in
this regard, then what now we can have a good laugh at students
because we all understand that lifestyle, but what about the way
we are living this world? Because we have a test to every single one
of us has an ultimate test and final test will be by Allah
subhanaw taala as Allah subhanaw taala says about the Sahaba Willa
eCola Unum Dan Allah Who Kaluga homely Taqwa that those people who
the Sahaba they will also like students in this world, Allah
subhanho wa Taala is the one who tested their heart for the taqwa,
Willa Ecole Medina, tahan, Allahu kuruva, whom the Taqwa of Allah
tested and Allah is the tester, that's what we have as well. Now,
what we have to understand is that the needs of this world after all
those examples, the needs of this world are not our goals, they are
needs, they should be placed in the position of needs, that is the
analysis. That is the analysis we need to understand and we need to
develop
there's a beautiful verse in the Quran, which I read in the in the
beginning Allah subhanaw taala says, in the look of in the hurdy
subhanho ila
that in the daytime, I'm going to do a meaningful translation first,
then I'll explain to you what it what it means in terms of residual
meaning, that in the daytime, you have a lengthy occupation Subhan
Allah subhanaw taala lengthy occupation meaning you are very
busy during the day you have to fulfill a lot of needs, you have
to wake up you have to have your breakfast you have to go on earn
you have to do this chore you have to do that your a lot of the time
that you need in the daytime is taken. So the whole idea of this
verse as Allah then continuing says, with charisma robic and then
remember the Name of your Lord waterbottle, la heeta Mattila and
fully seclude yourself for him fully cut away and, and designate
yourself for Allah subhanho wa taala. What are you saying is that
in the daytime, if you don't have time for worship, because you've
got a lot of time, you've got a lot of other busyness in the
daytime, to do this stuff on the other and occupation and chores
and everything else, you're very busy during the day, then in the
nighttime, you make that time up for Allah subhanaw taala. That's
the idea of this verse in general. However, what we're seeing here is
that the wording used here by Allah subhanaw taala absolute
master, right, the word used here is very interesting. It says, in
the look of in a hurry Subhan Allah Subhan for those who
understand Arabic well Ceiba mean Subhan Saba hayas bajo it means to
swim. Now, if anybody is trying to swim, anybody who wants to swim,
can he can he swim by just getting along by just relaxing, swimming,
the whole definition of swimming is that it requires an activity,
constant motion to stay afloat, otherwise you drown. So for you in
the daytime is a constant occupation. Now if we look at this
differently in terms of this meaning, that it means that
constantly day by day, your your day requires the swimming, which
means swimming in this world of pleasures, this water of pleasures
around you, to such a degree that if you don't keep trying to focus
on your goal, and where you're supposed to get to, and keep
making movements in that direction, you will drown Subhan
taweelah The word use there is that it is an occupation, it is
busyness, it's an engagement, it is not something that you can just
be carried through, you will have to swim this you will have to put
this difficulty in. So that is part of the analysis that we need
to understand what we need in this life, and what is ancillary to
this life. So for example, generally speaking, we're always
going to have busy times in our life.
And whenever things get busy, the first things that generally get
struck off our register, the first things that we generally leave
out, are going to be our worship. So for example, if you did have a
time where you really are seen in the morning, or you sit after fajr
prayer and you do 10 minutes of vicar, or you, you know you sit on
the tube going to work and you read some Quran, you pull out your
app from your phone, and you read some Quran. But today is a busy
day, you have to make some calls, you have to check some, you know,
reports or you have to you have to prepare for something. The first
thing that generally goes in our mind is the worship of Allah
subhanaw taala. So you start getting rid of these things.
They're the first things to go. And the way these things generally
work is that once you've missed them for one day, the second day,
the third day, then they become a norm that you're always going to
miss them. It's so difficult to actually start spending some time
reading that
Quran every morning, it was so beautiful. It took a long time to
get there. But he gets struck up very easily. Now I'm still playing
it, you know, Saturday here yet, because after that, if it goes
further then you start missing prayers. So lunchtime when you're
supposed to pray done, but you get very busy then eventually you
start seeing all prima dora I'll do my door and eventually the door
gets stuck off, it gets struck off, and you miss the horror for
us or US or in the in the short days that gets struck off then is
Maghrib. And then you're gonna say well, I'll just combine all the
praise afterwards God understands. So this is what happens to our,
the goal of this life becomes something else, what should have
been a goal, what is totally important for the goal which is
success in the hereafter as we believe as believers, right, get
struck off, and the utilities of this world just the tools of this
world, they become more important. I remember once I spoke to this
brother, he used to be in my community when I was in another
community, very wealthy individual, very nice individual,
very pleasant individual, always there to help the masjid in times
of need giving huge amounts of money to the masjid. However, I
would hardly see him in prayers, not even in Juma prayers. So one
day at a picnic, when we were together, I said, Brother, I said,
you know how come you don't come for Jamar? He says busy. I said,
look, the sun is busy. But joy is important. Right? He's I say he
says it's important.
So then, and then I mentioned to him a hadith I said that anybody
who misses three Juma was taking them lightly. Right, anybody who
misses Three Jewels, taking them lightly, then a stamp is placed on
his heart, which means the heart is sealed from any goodness from
coming inside. It doesn't say cough, a lot of people equate this
to Cofer. They might as well because essentially, once the
heart has become sealed, no good comes in there. Then after that,
you just go downhill, then you just don't see any brightness in
this in this world in terms of the true nature of ALLAH SubhanA wa
Tada. So this was very interesting. He said, you know,
all of this, it relates to the Sahaba the Companions, because
they weren't as busy as us.
Now, it's almost like, you know, I've done a PhD study on the
sahaba. And they were not busy. They had all the time in the world
that they needed. They lived in a different time and place. And
that's why the that command relates to them, and not to ask,
because we live in, in these new cities where it's so busy. What a
curse that is, like, what a curse that is. But well, all I'm trying
to say is that as
as crazy as that sounds, you and I could be making similar arguments
to ourselves, which if we told somebody else, they'd probably
laugh at us. But because we love ourselves so much, we get we get
away with it. The, you know,
the person that is deceived the most by the self, is the person
themselves. The reason is that whenever you love something so
much, that person can deceive you. When you love somebody, it says
that how Bucha your amoeba, you seem that the love of something
will define you and blind you. And it's really true, right? Because
love is something that I don't want to go into the studies of the
mind. But basically, we do not remain rational beings anymore.
When it comes to love for something. It clouds our
judgments. At the back of our mind intellectually we know something
is incorrect. It's wrong. It's harmful, but because the pleasure
of the adornment of it, the facade, outer facade of it, or the
immediate, so called joy of it is so great in our mind, especially
when you get used to something like this, it just becomes a
challenge. The only way to cut through this challenge is by
strengthening the heart with the remembrance of Allah subhanaw
taala. These are just the challenges I'm talking about. I'm
here just for introspection today. I'm here just to make us think I'm
here to challenge us today that says, I don't know how many
answers we have. Because the answers are not easy. But if you
don't know what the challenge is in the first place, if we don't
know what pits we're in, if we don't know what chaos we're in,
what what faces us today, then there's no way we're going to get
to a result. But today if we can just think about where we are, get
our priorities, right? Where is our goal, what are just ancillary
to this goal, that Insha Allah, there is some hope that
essentially we ask Allah subhanaw taala for guidance.
So now,
some things are urgent, while other things are important. So
when it comes to missing prayer for the sake of your next meeting,
for the sake of fulfilling a particular task, for the sake of
shopping, that you know that if you wait to pray Maghrib then go
for shopping, then the shop is going to close.
Right? And then we're not going to have that nice bread for supper.
So what we do is we miss them a hurry to go and buy that breads,
whereas I don't think
We would have died if we didn't get that bread and we prayed
Makarem. Whereas for certain prayers the Prophet sallallahu
sallam said that if that prayer is missed, it's as though the
person's family and all of his wealth it has been annihilated.
But the that destruction unfortunately, we can't see in
this world, we can't see the destruction, that destruction we
see in the hereafter when it will be too late. These are just
reminders for us. That's why we have to understand that some
things are urgent, while other things are important. Buying that
bread was important. But Salah is urgent. So it needs to be done.
A person wanted to get his daughter married.
A person wanted to get his daughter married. That's a big
finger on their mind of people. They say a huge sigh of relief
when their daughters get married. More than even when their sons get
married, even though that's a big responsibility as well nowadays.
So this person he was going to get his married, his daughter married
off. He planned everything. He planned everything. Major
hospitality. He was really honoring his guest. He gave and
this was in Pakistan. Right. So he gave everybody a garland
the heart, everybody a garland and 1000 rupees each not those little
boxes of Ferrara crochet to foxes sweets or something like that. No,
this was 1000 rupees, right in Pakistan. And, uh huh. Then are
you talking to me really honoring his 1000 guests or whatever?
You can imagine what kind of planning went into that? He'd
planned the whole thing. Everybody came, they started their
reception. Right? Not a very religious man. But, you know,
Muslim, everybody's a Muslim there. Right?
You know what? By the end of it, they forgot to do the Nika
they forgot to do the ceremony.
Because everybody was at a party thing will happen will happen will
happen now Nikka who was urgent in fact that was the goal here. But
in everything else became the goal.
Now when I say that obviously they must have done it afterwards. But
they forgot to do it there. It just got delayed because the mole
Malawi sub that you must have we must have called I don't know what
happened to him why he didn't say oh, he couldn't say or whatever
the case was. It's a crazy example. But it just shows the
kind of deception that this world works on us.
That's why for example, when it comes to Ramadan, unfortunately
some of our women they spend the whole day in the masjid cooking
and sorry whole day in the kitchen cooking in the masjid cooking that
would be nice. That's a new level Subhanallah in the kitchen
cooking.
That big, forget Ramadan anytime they spend the whole time in the
kitchen cooking because that becomes an objective. Cooking was
supposed to be just the utility, just a need. The objective is
something else but the objective becomes cooking in the kitchen.
The men encourage force in fact their wives to make that their
objective.
Some men are extremely harsh in this regard. A woman complained to
us she was a neighbor of sorts. She said I want to speak to you
about my husband I knew us but husband very well. He says he
makes me cook twice a day full meals twice a day. You know like a
special dish for lunch he got comes home specially from work to
have it not a sandwich. So I'm going to work yesterday's meal you
know just reheated or packed up in a little you know container you
can put it in the microwave, no fresh meal. Now okay,
understandable. But also with every meal you need to have right
as well. Fresh. Now if you don't understand right brother, that's
this yogurt kind of side dish that the side kind of thing that they
have. Right?
So all of that fresh, fresh. Another guy I met he says my wife
Alhamdulillah she makes me milk you know do teach I do potty. She
makes me this milk tea three times a day.
You know what I mean? Is not boil the kettle and put in the tea bag
and pour the water of an add a little you know, little amount of
milk. No, this is take the pen. Make sure it's a clean plan. Put
the milk in or an add water if you if you're doing that or if it's
100% milk, add the sugar, the tea inside there and then waited for
it to boil and make sure it doesn't burn and so on. That's a
hassle. Three times a day she does it. I said you know what? I said
you got a volume accent or an oppressor.
You know if you look at for example, some of our great
scholars of even recent times is Sheikh Zakaria Conde Rahmatullah
here. I live in southern Poland. When I heard about this, I thought
this is so wonderful. It changed my perspective. You know, we grow
up in this and I'm not here to say women should not cook in the
house. I'm not here to say that. Right, right from the outset. I'm
just saying that there's an objective, and then there's a need
and we need to differentiate between that women also have an
objective of Allah subhanaw taala. So what
happened. What chef Zachary used to do is that you know, in
Ramadan,
the women of the house, all they had to do was to cook one curry.
That's it, because the bread, the rotis, and whatever would be,
would be purchased from outside. And also some will say whatever
was also purchased from outside. So all the women had to just
quickly make up a one dish not make rotis as well and this that
well and everything. We generally think that if we do that to our
wives, they're gonna get lazy. They're gonna get lazy, they're
gonna stop doing these things. So we insist that they do these
things. When it comes to Ramadan. It's the time for their worship as
well. Why keep them in the heat for five hours in the kitchen when
they have to worry about these things? Make it easy for that
sake, Allah will have mercy on you. If you think no, I'm going to
you know this is going to cause them to rebel. This is mercy do it
for the right reason for Allah subhanaw taala because the
prophets Allah Some said that even even a lightening the burden of
your employees in Ramadan provides baraka for you. That is a
recommendation. So again, we need to distinguish between an
objective and a need.
That's why the Prophet sallallahu sallam was asked man Akia so nurse
who is the most intelligent human being who's the most intelligent
person, the prophets, Allah some said, a thorough, nicorandil
mouth, the one who is most abundantly who remembers his
death, the one who most abundantly remembers his death. Now, what
does death the reminder of death due to a person what that what
reminder of death does to a person is that it tells us that we are
not as strong as we think we are. We are not here permanently, it
means this is gonna end, you know what the words in
your eyes you're not supposed to do for us, which it doesn't
because we don't know what it means, meaning that in the Indian,
Pakistani Bangladeshi people, because you know, we know these
words, but we don't know what they mean, in the law, when we do
something.
Right. When we do something, something bad happens, an accident
takes
the logic away also for Allah we also belong to, we're also going
to return to you, if this thing has returned to Allah, meaning is
gone, when we're also going to cover so what's the routine, it's
supposed to manage our sorrow. It's supposed to manage us when we
do something, but we never think about it.
When we do something, we can handle it. We should think that's
just a part of our life, our whole life, we know we mentioned. So
the peroxide was with us, who is the most, the one who remembers
his death. Death is one of those things, which if you remember, it
really, really helps to define the goal of this paper. What is really
going to matter if I think of it that it's going to make me think
what really matters for often. Because the great thing about
believers remembering this death, is that he believes in a life to
come. He believes in
paradise, a company, he believes in the pleasure of Allah, Allah,
he believes that good deeds and bad deeds and free will, all of
that comes into play. When we don't remember that, then we're
just into the attractions of the world. They subsume us, like
consumers, they take us, they take us right through, that's basically
one of the differences where we start remembering that you become
the most intelligent person. So the person who I should say, Who
is the most intelligent person, the one who remembers mostly is
that because that is a way to impede intelligence about what's
right and what's wrong. What's the best moves to make? What is the
best investment to me? What are the best steps to take, that's
what you're going to learn? May Allah give us that some feel?
As for us, it's a whole day in our shop, we come home and then the
shop is in our minds, because we're thinking about what's
happens next, what about tomorrow, and so on, we don't have time to
think about the euro. That's why it's so difficult.
When you look at certain people like Howard, Rasheed, now, these
guys were great leaders, the Khalifa of his time, one of the
greatest diversity leaders that we know of our own regime, everybody
said about him, that he used to read numerous amounts of extra
nawabi. Everybody's, for some reason, he had everything at his
disposal, maybe more than you and I can ever even imagine. Because
once he's on the banks of the river tables with ratings in bulk,
and he looks at it.
And he said, he said to that,
imagine what kind of position is famous from he says to this club,
you can go and shovel your water wherever you want. But the crops
that grow from this water, the taxes from that will be brought to
my feet. Now that's the kind of that's the kind of control he's
talking about that this company has, and yet he spent so much time
in doing the work because he understood what a COVID is. And he
understood what these things around him was. You have another
one from, again from
come from summertime from Karasawa in our area, peace of mind with
the listener you who came into India as well, I files on solid
muscle memory, what is it addiction to this, in his position
having everything at its disposal because they believe in something
ulterior that belief was a solid realistic belief in their hearts,
when that kind of realistic money comes into our lives, then we will
become the most intelligent person, we will become the most
intelligent one as the voice of the law abiding citizens. They
recognize the objective.
The in some things, the human being thinks that his objective
our desires, that's the sum of all of this is that all of our
attractions, they make us feel that that's my desire, that next
car guy on that next handbag, that next chapter is those next
sunglasses, that next house, whatever the case is, that's the
objective of my life. When that becomes the objective, that's when
it becomes really, really problematic. Whereas if you look
at the books on the last two hours, we'll be grateful
when he looks at it is if you look at this process first he says Hola
Hola. Hola. Hola. My channel is already Mohammed input of Allah
make the sustenance, the sustenance of the household of the
prophets
make it just sufficient to keep them straight. Just make it basic,
is asking for just the basic amount not to make it abundant.
But to make it basic, because he knows that this is what this is a
person, but he doesn't want it that you have to suffer. He wants
it just enough so that you go live. And that's why it works a
lot on yours. These don't let me say these things about some of us
at least we seem so far fetched. But I'm gonna say it anyway, the
rocks are awesome said that mean the domain? What relationship do I
have? I'm just like, a person with a Wayfarer or a traveller that
finds a tree to lay down doesn't become his goal. This is just the
need for that moment, because he needs to rest for a while, and
then carry on the whole community. Now for us, that seems so far
fetched. That seems like a dream that seems mythical. How can
somebody even think that way? The reason is that the dunya, for us,
we might be faced with a proxy, all of a sudden, the hereafter was
magnified the two there was just something you have to pass for us,
the two nations will be in front of us, the heretics hidden behind
that software. So all we see is to get to the attorney.
And I'm speaking about myself. So this is just purely old food for
thoughts of how we accomplish work. These are the philosophers
who doesn't know a lot more. So at the end of the day, the life will
be spent. Whether you live in a small house or a big house,
whether you eat a seven course meal, or just normal,
you will fill your stomach.
Right? Good, healthy, dark, right? For you have seven course.
sumptuous meal that will give you problems afterwards. Your life
wouldn't be
right.
It's just about what do I want from this life? I'm not saying
having a set of goals means
I'm just leaving us thinking that at the end of the day, we always
wanted to go to the same place. Right? And we still once he gets
into this, how he doesn't do anything afterwards. The data is
actually later to be honest.
That's why it goes awesome. hardly meet. He was pretty much a semi
vegetarian, but takes on him there was nothing to quote, you know,
they go about raw food, the nice thing? Is there a problem? Why do
these how freeze points talk about losing nutrition when you cook
foods. I'm not saying you should go buy sushi all the time. But
what I'm trying to say is that the first lesson dealt with date and
water for such a long time. And under red days would that stove in
his house with the stove in his house the kingdom unread is it
just sounds out of the world. It sounds out of the woods. We can't
even do that for a day. If your cooker doesn't work for a day
before the cold external computer or you have the microwave anyway.
Now, let us understand a few things. Just to put it in
perspective. Let the Koran speak, what is success? We all want
success. But why do we want to success in this world? Every
successful discipline is kind of interesting, because after you
have a success,
the pleasure that you get from the successful new windows and then
you have another one. Have you noticed? Is there any success in
your life that you're still enjoying after 10 years?
You need another
it
gives you a bit of satisfaction that you didn't know. So success
in this world because of the nature of the worlds that
everything guys, eventually you get success, you get a bit of
enjoyment, and then you have to do it all over again. And then you
have to do it more intensely. That's what people look for.
That's a success in this world, not to say wish we can be
successful, you know, we need this business. But the real success in
our business world,
the workflow real success, a success, after which there is no
failure, or success that you will enjoy truly forever, is called
caught up in Arabic. That's why look what Allah says, says, I've
learned that we know and Latino piece
for luck will be attained by the believers who are referenced in
their prayer, who are fearfully reference in their trade. That is,
Father, Who is Allah subhanho wa Taala will help company popular.
Anybody who fears Allah, and who has the power, they are of the
witness that success, whatever success were to who is Elijah
near, and you have to be known that the point of view, all of you
return to Allah, turn to Allah, Allah, repent to Allah, together,
all believers so that you may gain success, again, successes spoken
about in this regard, the books that have also said, his body, who
would be who very, it's the party of Allah, it is the group of Allah
that will 60s that will gain this further and this ultimate success.
That's what we want to be possible. These are just reminders
that Allah subhanaw taala. Stacy, in the ruler, they will call you
very repressive, will not be successful, you might be thinking
the oppressors of the world are successful today is this personal
rights, they are successful, they're getting away with it, they
can do it with murder, and more. Well, no, because this woman
doesn't value anything from us.
If you start behaving in this in this way, any turmoil in the world
that we're going through will not continue. When you start realizing
that this world is just to go through to get to that bigger
world, then you will realize that all these difficulties and these
challenges that listings are facing today, they will stop
making you depressed. These charities are here to make us
depressed, so that we lose our faith, we jump off the ship, the
ship of Islam, the trader respond, which is continuing, all it is, is
that that going is getting tough. And if you don't get to first US,
which means we really satisfied with Allah subhanaw taala, then
we're just gonna jump off, because we think it's better outside. But
at the end of the day, the destination is going to be lost,
the goal is going to be lost. If you focus on the Europe and Europe
realize that this world is supposed to be difficult, as the
promise of fitness will come upon you challenges and tribulations
will come upon you. And each one there are people that will hurt.
Each one will make the other one seem clients. That's why the
divorce courts have said that that she will feed them a fitna will
come and the person will take the undercutting. I finished in this
one, this is my death from litigation, but then that will be
removed. And look how if you look at the last 10 years, from the
cartoons, to the videos about the loss of alliances, to all of these
other challenges against a mother as well as in the messages and
Muslims and boosting certain Muslim individuals around the
world committing acts that we all have to then pay the damage for et
cetera, et cetera, these often and every time a new one happens, you
know, I mean, it was 41 people went to bomb the tiny but what did
they end up creating?
They went to Bondi the what do they ever crazy? ISIS, they
bombing ISIS now what are you going to create next? But
basically, what I'm trying to say is that the nature of this world,
where injustice prevails, you cannot be successful. So it makes
it less apparent success as the protocols and said a fixed number.
The company will think that's it, how they look at it, this is the
place of my deposition, this is the convention it will be removed,
then another one will come. Now this is where this is it that will
be removed. But the answer was, you just you just die with the
morning. When you need it. You should be a believer, that's your
responsibility. You need to just be just be going through this
anymore and inshallah you must meet Allah subhanho wa Taala with
iman. That is what you must do. To preserve our iman, we need to
think straight. We need to understand the objectives, that
that's what this is all about just to make us think of that nature of
that name. That's why Allah says in the body, oppressions will
never gain further will never be success.
So how often you're recovering disbelievers will never be
successful. Like they will go to the mall, the violent
transgressions, the criminals, they will never be successful,
like,
the magician will never be successful. All of these things,
they will never be successful. It's the believers who are going
to be successful, because that's success. Even if you don't see it
in this world, it's because that success relates to the hereafter,
as much as the difficulty may be here. Now, just to finish off,
what generally takes us takes our entire time in this world is our
perspective of we've got issues, everybody has issues, they're
looking for an issue, that's life. But he the only way you can have a
life without issues is if you get so connected to Allah, that every
issue becomes an issue. Because you understand what you're doing
these issues only become magnified by people who magnify them in
their mind, I'll give you an example is two people they don't
they both got rich, they both got laid off work. One guy goes into
depression. The other guy, he goes and starts looking for another
job. Five years down the line, the guy will look for another job
Marshall is doing pretty well. This guy is depressed, doing
menial jobs. Now, what was the issue? They both got laid off from
the same job? Was it something to do with the mind? Was it something
to do with the paper? Was it something to do with the fate of
why one reacted one way or another who reacted differently? Isn't
let's say it's the way you react to these things. Depression is a
compiler. The way to remove depression is to know that Allah
plans things, maybe just the promise of the words instead get
to describe what attaches. You go and avidly seek our benefits do
not step back and become people.
Why esophagus shaken and if something does happen, then don't
go around saying if I did this in addition would have happened if I
did this and this would have happened. Because when you go
around saying if the in the look of an industry or the this is
unbox, they just opens up the door shame on for you and makes you
depressed. Allah says in the Quran Maha Saba Karim. We'll see but if
not, we will see within the hour we will proceed in that the kita
in COVID, another InDesign Coronavirus, and you will see
a fix this world around you or it affects you directly. It was all
recently featured in a popular record with a company in Nevada
before we created the world. And this was simple in the article you
see. Okay, understandable. So what what Allah says, What is the
benefit of knowing this, that everything is written
so
well
so that you do not become despondent, depressed and hopeless
over something that misses you, something you didn't acquire, you
didn't get something you missed. You realize that this was well
written so you can see what Allah knows best will give me better as
that means mentioned, you should try
the whole point of this so that you do not feel despondent or
misses you, although you miss understanding that ALLAH knows and
is the wisdom of why he did this. Why is average and if you do get
something meaningful to achieve something that you don't start
becoming arrogant about it, whether the firm will be mad at
you don't start exalting over what you have received the idea that
this was my achievement, this was a uniform, my dream you have to
start thinking I could have so easily so easily have been born in
considers.
Did you control your wealth yet? You might say, I have everything
that I have. Because my I've worked hard, or my father gave it
to me, he worked out.
Okay. Well, how were you given to your parents? Could you not have
been somewhere else? That same mind of yours be in a person born
in Syria eating cargo to survive?
And that person be in your place? Where does your argument Go? Now?
At the end of the day,
we only have a certain amount of freewill
right? We have freewill, we make our choices. But there's a lot of
things that are beyond our control. So Allah says that the
reason why we tell you everything is written is so that you don't
start insulting and becoming arrogant over what you have
received.
In Allah Allah.
Allah subhanaw taala doesn't make anybody who's arrogant and
conceited.
There was a brother in Christ with us the year after. And mashallah
you know, is a very interesting chap.
You Allah bless him, but in everything
He was caught, he was in the front. So he would get the best,
the best place to sleep in Milan,
in the queues, right, which are quite chaotic. He's always at the
front getting his bags back first. So the coaches always person in
the front seat, like he's always first, like a very shrewd man. And
one day I got talking to him. And he said, you know, Allah loves me.
That's why I get all of these things.
All of these things I can, because Allah loves me. Now
you get all these things, because I love you. It's a possibility.
But it's not a necessity. Just because we're successful in this
world, like you get on the bus bus, you get to the destination
first, you get the best choice.
It could be an espionage, it could be just Allah testing you by
giving you more to see whether you do really remembering or not, I
would not have said that or say it. I'm not going to judge his
intentions. But I would not have said, what I would encourage the
person to say is 100 always missing.
Right, and maybe not take this weekend not make this a deception,
I would not be very secure and confident in that Allah loves me.
I would love it that he loves me, I would hope he loves me, I do
hope that he loves all of us. But I'm not gonna say he definitely
loves me. That's why you can not say that about them. That's,
that's a big statement.
That's a piece.
Everybody has issues.
Now let's think about this for a while.
You've got a family, let's just take a family. And you've got a
little brother. He thinks that his older brother has more freedom,
because he has to go to sleep at a particular time. If you've got an
older, right, he gets more time because he's doing his GCSE. So he
has more time to computer. And I know that he plays games on there
sometimes. But my parents don't know. They think he's doing
homework. They take me off after two hours, but they let him play.
They they can stay on longer. So then this liberal kid thinks he's
got issues. So he thinks I believe becomes bigger, the size of his
brother that he's not going to have issues right now will become
that size.
When I grow up, I'll be fine. Then when he grows up, he starts having
problems at school that there's requirements. There's if I had no
homework, but now that age, I don't have restrictions at home
anymore. But I've got homework, I've got this stuff in the other.
I've got these other responsibilities. And I think I
can't wait to get out of school. Once I get out of school. It's
going to be easy. I can't wait to get up here. So I just got issues.
Then after that he finishes school. Right? Anything's now you
should be free. But you know what? Now he's got other issues. I need
to find a job. I can't find the job market is really bad right
now. I just can't find a job. I have issues, man. I've got issues.
If I find a job, I'll be fine. Okay, fine to find a job, then I
need a wife. Or if it's a woman, I need a husband, right? I don't
even know why I need a spouse. And once I can. So this is tip number
one is so difficult to live without furnish us all this
attraction, all these problems, and I could end up committing sin
or whatever the case is, I need to get married. Right? And okay,
fine. If I if I had a wife, I'd be fine. That he gets away. Then
after that you can't have children. We've been trying for
two years, it's been three years I can achieve the macro issues.
Right? Finally, he gets to like he's actually doing the issue stop
now. No, I have to bring up these children. And the whole cycle
starts again. I have to bring up his children.
The older one is fine. Actually not the younger ones. I find that
the old one is difficult. I don't know what he gets up to. I don't
know what she has. I don't know what they're doing online on the I
don't know what kind of people they're talking to. Right? Now he
starts getting those kinds of issues. I remember being issues
have been going through your life. Everything is an issue. So you
think you're gonna be any easier and it gets old? I don't think so.
Right? If you're sitting there thinking,
you have no issue 500
Right.
So then he's always says the older one is fine, but the second one.
He doesn't want to study. So now you've got two issues. Now
hamdulillah they're beyond the studies and everything. I've got
my daughter I need to get her married. I just can't find a
suitable visa.
I need to find a suitable spouse.
I've got issues I need to find a suitable spouse for my daughter.
Then after that Hamdulillah we found this woman was awesome. They
get married. Now they've got other issues. She's got such a mother in
law. She won't even have to open the fridge without permission.
got other issues.
Now, when are these issues going to stop? If you're waiting for
issues going to Scott, they're not going to stop this is going to be
issues in this world, this world is a place of issues.
All we need to do is how to learn how to deal with them, and
understand they're going to happen. So we know where the
hurdles are coming, the person or the runners that also understand
the hurdles, otherwise, they can get knocked out by first. And this
is what life is about. If you're looking for a utopian life, the
perfect life, the ideal home, then remember, what we're focusing on
is let the hereafter be created. And let that be our defining
moments. Because really, all of these issues of the world, they
are nothing, the real problems, I'm going to start off today. The
greatest the first place, that's where if none of the alarm used to
go past the grave, I used to cry and cry until his beard became
friends. And he was asked us in handy, very clear, he was asked
how come you don't cry when you hear about death? Irving's you cry
when you pass the grave. This is because this reminds me of the
first stage, if this stage is but the stages will follow will be
better. If this stage is good, then all the stages after that
wouldn't be good. This is the place where there's going to be
issues. That's where the real problems start, when once you die,
this one is nothing. Those problems can be rectified. Those
problems can be dealt with, if this world is dealt with in the
proper way. Somebody has a toothache he gets bitten by a
snake is too late is going to be forgotten. Right because of snake
bites is just worse. It's all relative in this world. It's all
relative in this world. And the only time that we will be deceived
is when you make the wrong things your project.
As long as you understand that these are the tools, my objective
is there, that big hereafter, that big gentleman's, that's my
objective, the satisfaction of Allah. All of these things are
just on the side. They are just instruments. They're just tools.
They're just Matera has a duty and then life becomes so much easier.
One glimpse of gentlemen, one clips of gentlemen that make a
person forget any difficulties having this was in be forgotten.
Okay, we forgotten one glimpse of the flame of hellfire. One case of
this will make you forget any measure of this works. That's the
relativity that we should be looking at. That is what we should
be focused on. That's why
every problem that we're going to create is going to be created but
you know what happens a lot doesn't get a little out to people
for no for nothing. Well, now we wonder. We wonder we did not want
to oppress in the least layer we will love, love, love even as a
shaper. Allah, Allah doesn't oppress even in the slightest.
Nothing in this world, many people coming to prison when they
incriminated and they still feel wronged. Or when a person goes
into hellfire, they're not going to feel the wrongs, they are not
going to like it, but they are going to know that we deserve it.
Because Allah doesn't oppress actual, that's where Allah says,
Allah Azza wa masiva, for the month of April, whatever, we'll
see where reaches you, and afflicts you, it's because of what
your hands did, is because of what your hands did, so I can convey it
says something very interesting. One of the greatest, we'll see
what we generally come from is dealing with our children,
especially in this time of challenges. But in my opinion says
that if your children are turned out wrong, or have a problem, then
you have to understand that parents at some level are
definitely too great. They cannot be blameless industry law, unless,
of course they died, you know, somebody else looked after them.
And if you're alive, and something happens to your children, and may
Allah protect them, may Allah protect them. Because that's our
major responsibility, then it means that the father or mother
has been divided into two streams, developing to violence divided
into driver where they've been too lacks. They've been overly
generous, right with their money, but we're not not with their
hearts, not with their time, there could be so many so many different
things. Everything has, has, has a has a reason. But you have to
remember that any difficulty that generally comes these issues that
come up that need to wash out space. If we deal with them in the
right way they can be used to purge our sins. And the reason for
that is quite simple. You might be thinking how and why does Allah
subhanaw taala use difficulties and calamities to purify rights?
Why can it be an easier process and I spot for as well? It's just
like this. You don't want to try to get too dirty.
Right? Have you seen children they hate having their hair washed?
Right? They hate it. They scream in the bathroom times. But the
mother she has to the mother has to wash her child, she has to use
that soap she has to stop that child despite the fact that the
child doesn't like it whatsoever because she knows it's good for
you. Likewise, Allah subhanaw taala He cares for us. He brings
these difficulties on us. We just need to know how to deal with them
and understand the Sahaba
Masons have been punished because of this. That's why Hajj is
difficult as it is. Because it's a time when Allah wants to give it
to you because I remember the year women were going through, you
know, from Morocco, we were doing to went to walk and I could take
15 minutes and that scorching heat to get inside. Right? I see why.
They then you think to yourself Subhanallah if I was on disability
was a walk in the park, everybody would be doing things. But this is
an effort that the few will do we want to 60s. So it's difficult.
That's why it's chosen to be on the radio in Arabia, the
remembrance you're not in England, or in America or wherever else it
is, is chosen to be there for a reason. Allah knows that wisdom,
the best Allah will have made it done in any other way, when even
half of a homegrown regenda time Allah says that Allah subhanho wa
Taala for the person who fears him will keep him to paradise to Gods
most understand this to be too special project governance in
general, in the other world, but some have said what it means is
that Allah will also make this world nitrocarburizing change
their perspective, they will have a clearer understanding of coal
and to go, that means they will be able to deal with all the hurdles
issues will no longer be issues that just take them in this strike
that they constantly fend for all of us. That is my agenda, this
world because of gender, and was promoted to make those numbers.
The high status that we want to reach here is that we want to get
to that because that should be our objective. Another status we want
to get a hold of. I want to be able to jump without words. I
don't want to be one who's everybody's honestly and the only
way that's going to happen is if our life becomes in accordance
with the Sunnah of Rasulullah was 100% that is the guarantee that
your device will be accepted if you liked the concept. That's the
difference. Now let's kind of jump into fitness. May Allah Subhana
Allah grant us assistance and help on your data there is needs which
is the day or the day of judgment in the hereafter when the issues
really begins. It starts now.