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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al Hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah Hamden
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Mubarak unnati Gamma your Hebrew buena, well Allah
Jalla Jalla who I'm gonna swallow, or salatu salam or either say you
dill Habib Al Mustafa SallAllahu Taala either you are either he or
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So, my dear respected friends
on this Friday night.
Allah subhanaw taala gathers us here in this masjid, there could
be so many other things you could be doing on a Friday night.
But the fact that we have decided to dedicate our next hour or so in
this masjid,
then
we will say that this in itself is a reward of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada.
That's why if not, I thought he loved his country. He says that
don't ask Allah for a reward
of a good deed that you do.
Because it's already a reward, that He has given you the ability
to do so in the first place. There are so many other places, other
people that could have been here, but they're not here.
You don't have to be here. But it's something in your heart in
sha Allah that's brought you together there's a level of Tofik
and a direction from Allah divine enablement that has brought us
here. So we thank Allah subhana wa Tada
we thank Allah subhana wa Taala for this and we ask him that Allah
give us even greater mercy.
Allah subhanahu wata, Allah says, In the Quran, that if the people
of the locality if the people of the inhabitation if the people of
the city if the people of that area, were to believe, and then
have God fearing pneus have Taqwa fear Allah subhanaw taala in their
everyday dealings in their relationship,
then we would open up for them we would let flow open up and
release. Baraka, Tim blessings. Baraka that's plural of Baraka,
blessings from the heavens and the earth. Those blessings would come
upon them. They just have to believe and they have to be God
fearing. Just believe enough would not provide this. But God fearing
this the more Taqwa there is the more baraka and blessing there is.
Allah subhanho wa Taala says in another verse
in Surah, to Talaq, amen yet tequila, Whoever fears Allah the
stalker aspects
and he doesn't mention Iman here because that's assumed. Whoever
fears Allah, Allah will open up a way for him in whatever they need,
Allah will open up away for him, and then he will give him
sustenance from where he would never have thought so that it
would come.
That's in the hands of Allah subhanaw taala that he will
provide sometimes. And I can tell you this, that I don't even have
much Taqwa. But
Allah subhanaw taala provides and sometimes Subhanallah he provides
from where you would never expect it. To have come in the first
place. I'm sure each one of us can relate to something like this. But
if somebody had solid taqwa, then this would happen even more.
There's a narration that Imam Muhammad and Imam dari me they
relate from Abu Bakr or the Allah one that somebody came to the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said era swill Allah,
a unity higher?
Which of people are best? Who is the most excellent person?
These kinds of questions will be asked to the Prophet sallallaahu
Salam in numerous different ways, different answers the prophets
Allah would give based on the circumstance, and they all have
the meaning because all of these contribute to what a good person
is. So in this case, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
the excellent person the most beautiful person is the one man
Tala Romero who has phenomenal, the one who has the long life, but
then he's able to do good deeds during that life. So it's not long
life on sin. It's not
On a long life on redundancy, it's not a long line in just miserable
pursuance of the world where you neither get the world and you
stay, a person stays miserable.
And it's not just about obsessing with certain worldly aspects and
the glamour and the beauty of the world, but rather, it is something
that a person enjoys the world, but his focus is the Hereafter.
This is the thing which shaytaan confuses and creates a doubt about
he confounds in the minds of people that if you do become
religious, then you won't be able to enjoy yourself.
As though religious people don't enjoy themselves, it's just
there's another level of enjoyment all comes from the heart enjoyment
is something that you feel good about in the heart, your heart is
elated. Now, if it's haram things that cause a person, give them a
certain amount of pleasure.
For a short amount of time, then people think that if I don't do
that, I won't get any pleasure because they're used to that type
of pleasure. But those types of pleasure are short lived.
Subhanallah, if you just look at and read about the lives of some
of these great celebrities, as such, the the music, pop stars and
so on.
It's miserable. It's miserable. I mean, I don't even want to get
into detail about that. But I was just just something I came across
about this really famous singer called Lady Gaga has got nothing
but Hollywood made her basically, you know, the industry makes her
and she's been going through turmoil about hearing the devil
seeing darkness, just absolute misery, but she doesn't know what
nowhere to turn.
But her fans thinks this is the greatest thing that's ever come up
in the world. But only she knows what kind of misery. There's
others that have died of wine, drugs, overdose, they don't know
where to go. They think this is pleasure. But eventually the it's
not pleasure. It's only apparent pleasure and it wears off. So it
just depends on what your pleasure is. And I guarantee you that
people have Allah subhanaw taala they have their own level of
pleasure, which is more enduring.
But anyway,
the best person according to the prophets, Allah awesome, in this
case is the one who has a long life and good deeds during that
long life.
Then the person asked, okay, then who's the worst of people for a
university, Sharon, who is the worst of people. So the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Montoya O'Meara, who was Emmylou
is the one who's got a long life, but then he's got bad deeds during
that long life. So what he's doing is, is that he's racking up the
sins. Now what's very interesting, if you look at it this way, is
that sins are very pleasurable. That's why we do them otherwise
who do a boring sin, right sins, give you pleasure, that's why we
do them. That's why we feel like doing them. Now have you noticed
that when we commit a sin, we make that mistake, it feels very great
when we're doing it. But as soon as it's done, then it dissipates
and it's gone,
then you have to do it all over again, then you feel miserable.
Now, the pleasure of it has gone, the sin remains. Whereas in good
deeds, it's a bit difficult to do them in the first place, to come
for prayer to wake up for vision. These are some examples.
Once you've done it, now the hardships gone, but you've just
got the reward which will endure. So in a sin, the pleasure
dissipates, and the sin remains in good deeds, the hardship
dissipates, but the rewards remain. And it provides this kind
of Baraka. So what is baraka? What is blessing? If the prophets
Allah, some said you've got a long life with good deeds, it means
you're full of Baraka. So what is baraka and what is blessing?
Baraka and blessing, we this is a term we throw around and we use,
right we use a lot you know, in whatever languages that we have as
Muslims whether that be ordered or Persian or Pashto, Arabic,
Gujarati whatever it may be, we use the Barack is the word is
Barack, we use it. What exactly is baraka though? Generally if I'm to
ask somebody
who would like to give me a better understanding of Baraka?
If you don't volunteer, I'm gonna have to pick somebody out anyway.
So
okay, that's one manifestation of it. That would be one might you
put in less and you get a lot out of it. That's one manifestation of
Baraka definitely. You feel a fulfillment that's another
manifestation. So very hard to say this is baraka because it's not a
tangible product. It's not a commodity that it can be. You
know, that you can present in a plate to somebody here. This is
baraka. It's Jim
already done through something I'll tell you what the way the
other might have explained it, which then gives us an
understanding which these the what you've explained is a
manifestation of it albaraka Here through Bowtell hadal ILA, he if
he shaped Baraka is that there's a goodness a divine goodness from
Allah subhanho wa taala. That is found present in something, which
for in for in maha Eva Khaled for Euclidean cathedra to if it
alights into something which is less, it will increase it. That's
one manifestation of it, and whatever 100 Vika Theoden nether
and if it is found, if Allah places it in something that is
already abundant, then it will provide you blessing, it will
provide you greater benefit, you're going to a restaurant, you
do a good deal, maybe an estate, you know, your real estate deal.
And you feel really fulfilled with it. And Allah gives you something
great out of it, you do another one.
And you don't get anything out of it and you end the end, you feel
it's a loss. It's a bad deal.
You go and eat something and or you have purchased something and
it just keeps lasting for a long time. And it works for a very long
time. That means you got barakah in it. You know you have a wallet
full of money, right? In the good old days when you use cash.
There are some countries around Europe where they don't that 95%
of people don't use cash anymore like Sweden. It's all electronic.
Right? In England, we still use cash quite a bit. You go to Oxford
Street or Green Street or Southold abroad wait for a merit, you know,
for a wedding shopping. And you're there buying you know, and you're
pulling out you've taken maybe 500 pounds. And it's wedding showing
today 500 pounds wedding shopping, Colossus one dress, if you're
lucky, right? So if you're buying some other small things, and you
start spending, you buy this thing, you buy that thing you give
and you're not counting, you're just giving, giving, giving. At
the end, you've got these huge bags with you. And you think wow,
mashallah, I've got all this, how much money have I got left, then
you count it, and now you've only got 35 pounds lifts, now you only
have 35 pounds left, had you not counted that and Allah wanted to
give you a Baraka that would have been extended. Because Abu Huraira
really alone was given a bag of dates, which he kept to themselves
and kept eating from them without looking and he ate from them for a
very long time. One day, he decided, let me check what's in
here. And when he counted, it was, I don't know, seven days or
whatever it was, and that's all there was left afterwards. Allah
works behind the veil. Generally, you're not going to see seven
dates and then they suddenly multiply to 100. You're not going
to see that right or that you take another and just going to appear.
It works behind the veil because the world is a predictable world
that He wants us in by he works behind the veil to provide us
these things. This is what you call baraka and blessing in
something that when Allah puts something in there, then
everything will go well the one of the biggest places and one of the
most important areas where we need Baraka is in a marriage. You got
two strangers because sometimes coming together, two different
individuals, each with their own humanity, their own perspective,
their own, their own feelings, emotions. If this Baraka in that,
Allahu Akbar, it works wonderfully well. And that's why the DUA we
give to a couple is what Baraka hulak or Baraka, Alec, were Jamar
Urbina CO, Murphy higher, y la save that may Allah bless you. May
Allah shower His blessings upon you. We say that twice, because
they really need a lot of Baraka.
Because marriage is never a zero sum game. One plus one is two.
That's not what marriage is generally, it's a lot more than
that. It's not an accurate science.
So, how do we gain this Baraka Allah subhanaw taala says in the
Quran, Allah insha khardungla as Eden. If you do Shakur and you are
thankful, I'm going to give you more. So there's only incentive in
thanking Allah. So thanking Allah is one way of gaining baraka and
blessing in something to increase that thing is to thank Allah. And
believe me, the whole excuse of thanking Allah is that we then
remember Allah that He is really in control, and he's in charge
that takes away that arrogance from ourself. So if we've achieved
something, because we've got a degree from this university or
that university, or because our father was very, very wealthy, our
parents were very wealthy. We had a very wealthy uncle, somebody
gave us some, and he left a big inheritance for us. At the end of
the day, it's only because Allah put us in that family otherwise we
had no choice of being in that particular family. So all of it
eventually always goes back to Allah subhanaw taala and Allah
ones is just to remember that
and just do sugar. So there's a
There Omar have mentioned based on the Quran sunnah, a number of ways
to gain Baraka in our life.
A number of ways to gain Baraka in our life. What better than to go
to the Quran to learn this from? Allah subhanho wa Taala says,
the verse I read right in the beginning, what Oh, hello, Cora
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Baraka, Tim min, Osama, he will order the
if
the people of the area, whichever area that may be the villages, the
suburbs, the cities, whatever that may be worthy to believe. And to
have Taqwa which means to have that fear of Allah in their
dealings in their interactions, that's taqwa,
to fear Allah in what they do,
in how they buy and sell, in how they live in how they speak to one
another, in their private life, in their life with Allah subhanaw
taala, whether prayer, fasting and so on. This is taqwa. It's a very,
very, very general term, very comprehensive term that includes
all of these things. It's not just about dressing in a particular
way,
is not just about praying.
But it's about everything. A man of Taqwa is a man that is going to
be recognized and respected. Because of the softness of the
heart that Taqwa will bring, because of the composure and
control that this person will have, because of the patients that
they will be able to exercise because of the gratitude that they
that person will feel in their hearts, you will be able to see
it, the generosity that pure person will be able to have the
preference that that person will give to somebody else because of
his Taqwa. These are all manifestations of Taqwa the ethos
is the person who's controls himself and doesn't get angry.
The person who doesn't have an enmity in his heart. These are all
manifestations of Taqwa and God very much because you do this for
Allah, because we know that Allah is greater than we can ever be,
and he has more control over us. Then we can have anybody else.
So we feel ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. Then Allah says that if they do
taqwa, if they have taqwa, then we will open up we will release the
baraka Earth and the blessing from the heavens and the earth. It's
all for them. That's what this world is for. Who else did Allah
make it for? Now, you may think that there's a lot of people who
don't even believe and they have a lot of Baraka.
Seemingly, that's what you think is baraka? Baraka is not material
possessions. It's what that position gives you and allows you
to do in a form of self fulfillment, with a projection to
the hereafter. If that goodness that you feel you have, and the
riches and the wealth that you think you possess, is only good
for this world, then it's not very long living is it? It's not very
far reaching. Because for a believer, the real life is of the
hereafter. So everything we do here needs to have some kind of
effect, a positive effect on that life. So it's not to say that you
need to suffer in this life. But it's about whatever you do needs
to be adapted in such a way that it has a positive outcome for the
next life as well. While you enjoy it in the world. And those people
who have the knowledge and understanding from Allah, they're
the ones who will be able to do this.
You think the prophets Allah was born in his life? You think, oh my
god, I did not enjoy his life. You think Abu Bakr Siddiq, or Dianna
was a miserable person, you think was the man to dinner with the
millions that he had you think he didn't enjoy the world?
abdul-malik mouth, again, another billionaire
who had these huge amounts of wealth? He had all of that he
becomes Ashura, mashallah, he becomes one of the 10 given the
glad tidings of paradise. Wow.
Subhanallah
one of the
righteous people was asked, directly I had a solid him
in the SR Kadota, effort,
the prices, I mean, things are becoming expensive, right? You
know, like today, you say, like, everything's going up. We don't
know what's going to happen when the borders are separated when the
EU when we're out of the EU, and duties and things like that.
Prices are expensive. Everything's going up.
Subhanallah So somebody said that to one of the righteous people,
person who's got understanding and profound insight about Allah was
working in this world. So he said, and Zulu Hobbit Taqwa.
If you have taqwa, he says, he says lower lower the price is by
having Taqwa by having taqwa and God fearing this in your general
life, on a mass scale because we need to encourage each other. You
will see that all of these things will become easier the baraka
To will be blessing will be there. That's why it says that after ESA
is I'm not I don't want this to sound mythical, we live in a real
world. And we need to understand this and put this in perspective.
So it says that when a Saudi Salam will descend on the earth, at the
time, that is his appointed time, after that, it's essentially the
whole story is that eventually everybody will become a believer,
because he will clarify, even to the Christians as to what the true
belief is everybody and then those who will remain his enemies, then
he will fight against them, and then eventually, that the jail
will be killed. It's a long story, but basically afterwards it
mentions that everybody will become a believer. And then he
says that when everybody what the Hadith mentions is that when
everybody becomes a believer, there is no evil left for for a
short amount of time, it will remain like that for some years,
it will remain like that until it starts to deteriorate again. But
there will be seeing this glorious period. And he says, there will be
so much Baraka so much Baraka so much blessing, that things will be
in abundance, things will be in abundance.
We've never experienced that. But I just want to mention that as
just the what Taqwa can do that's like and that's a full, full
fledged taco for everybody. We're going to try to do just as much as
possible, at least in our own homes. And then if each one of us
can focus on our own homes and the community benefits from that.
Number two, so the first one to bring to bring about baraka and
blessing is taqwa. The second one is recitation of the Quran.
reciting the Quran brings about blessing because it's the word of
Allah. It's the divine Word of Allah.
When you read those words, it's not just anybody's word. You know,
when you read the words of a poet, how influenced you get when you
you know, when some of Iqbal's you know, for those who understand or
do when some of Iqbal is quoted, you know, people start German, you
know, German electoral, Gila, Jeff, Iowa fan Omar Joe haram,
Boko Haram say, hey, Cassie bootcut damage okay Bianca Reto
Sonam Vika here hurry, hurry, right. Um, you know, people start
getting excited. You know, I don't know too many poems, but people
get excited. It has an effect. The Quran is the word of Allah, our
Creator.
Then Zulu Mirabella mean it's the reveal words it's the reveal word
from the Lord of the Worlds.
It has a profound effect. But again, let's look at the Quran.
Allah subhanho wa Taala says Kitab Wan and Zilla who ileka Mobarak
This is a book that we have revealed to you. It is a blessed
book. It's Mobarak it's blessed it
Leah the Blue Yeti wali at avocado oil Bob, but why have we revealed
this book to you so that people will reflect over its verses?
And those people with intellect with true intellect will gain an
understanding. So the Quran is not just to be read as most of us
Indian, Pakistani Bangladeshi people who just read the Quran for
60 years sometimes don't even know what sort of fattier means, which
is really sad. It's great that we read a lot of Quran hamdulillah
don't get me wrong, don't stop reading the Quran. But let's get a
notch higher. At least understand what we're reading take a Deaf
See, take a translation, Leah the baru iOttie kita Boon Angela who
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do this is a book that we have sent down to you. It is blessing
so that people will ponder over its verses and I guarantee you
that anybody who ponders the Quran with respect with honor, while
feeling the sense of awe as to whose words these are and looking
for benefit and blessing, they will be blessings. They will learn
new things, the life their hearts will be strengthened. Their misery
will be removed, that depression will be alleviated. Because the
Quran is a Shiva, fie, he she is Shiva.
Number three, dua
asking Allah subhanaw taala That in itself is another source of
baraka and blessing. That's why the prophets of Allah is Allah
made specific. Do ask for Baraka, like in the marriage, when
somebody gets married, you say about a koala hulak or Bata
Karthik or Jamar Binaca Murphy. So we ask Allah subhanaw taala to
bless us, we ask Allah for blessing
number four
which is really strange. Either Masha fie Ville Mal, not to be
greedy in acquiring wealth.
It's like for us Baraka means
Having abundant but to gain Baraka, don't be greedy in
acquiring it, bless acquiring wealth, then you get Baraka.
How would you how would you understand that? Do you
understand? It's like saying don't do the thing that it's because the
definition that we have Baraka, which is to have just lots is
wrong. That's why our whole understanding of it goes wrong.
Essentially, there's a hadith related by Imam Muslim, where the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to Hakeem, he said,
Yeah, Hakeem,
in the huddle ml, how the rotten Hello rotten. This wealth, these
commodities that you see outside these beautiful cars, in today's
in today's life, these beautiful cars and these estates and
buildings and everything else, the suits and phones and everything
else. This is how the rotten Holy Water, it's very green, and sweet,
essentially, because you had the unsalted who are a farmer
community, in a sense, the more hygiene, those will come from
Makkah, they were traders, because they didn't have land. They were
not jugular. Right. The children were the inside, in a sense, they
had all the land, right, because that Madina Munawwara was there
was there
was there about So
the Prophet Solomon was giving us an example that this wealth that
you see is just like this nice green, and fresh and sweet crops.
That's if you get if you're a farmer, and you get some good
crops Subhanallah that's your, that's your life is made.
SubhanAllah. So he said that this wealth is just like that, how the
rotten Holberton from an a hover, who be Sahar with enough sin,
whoever takes it, but with a generous hearts with a generous in
a generous state, thinking that I'm taking this, I'm taking this
to spend on others. I'm taking this not to withhold for myself,
Boudicca houfy, he will be given blessing in it, for person takes
it, he will be given a blessing in it based on his intention. Our G
is another Hadith which says that whoever take you know, when you
want to borrow money from someone, what does the prophets Allah, some
say about that. He said, If you have to borrow from someone,
whoever takes somebody else's wealth, to borrow with an
intention to pay back Allah will help him pay back. But if you take
from somebody else, with an intention to swindle them and
deceive them, and not give it back to them, or make them really cry
for their money, then at luffa, who Allahu Allah, Allah will cause
that to be destroyed for you. And hence what that means is that you
will not be given baraka and what you do with that wealth will not
go far. It'll be destroyed. You will be miserable with that.
Now, you've messed yourself up and you've messed this other person
up. But if you have a good intention, with the wealth to pay
it back, you will be given baraka and blessing in it. So in this
hadith, though, same thing, whoever takes wealth with a good
open hearted intention, then he will be given baraka and blessing
in it, or Mannahatta who will be Ashraf enough sin, but whoever
takes it with a greed and avarice of the hearts then love Mubarak Lo
Fi then he will not be blessing in this gala the cool Wallah Yeshua
What a beautiful explanation. The Prophet says I'm said then the
person will be like the person who is eating eating, eating but he's
not getting satisfied. Because you know, we have a mechanism a
psychological mechanism that when you eat a certain amount there are
there are signals from the stomach to the brain that you're full now
and thus you don't want to eat but I mean, our our hospitality
culture is that name or become the throat like extra in your, in your
plate, which is very wrong. We have these extreme cultures,
right? We have mashallah our indo Pak culture which mashallah tries
to stuff the food down your throat? And then we have the
culture, which is our culture of the West in general, have some
I've had an okay, fine. But the guy, this guy, he's used to people
forcing him. So he says, I don't want you know, I'm done. So the
guy goes, Okay, fine. If you're done, okay, take it away. And this
guy's like, oh, no, man, you're the Pakistani lagna. Anyway, you
know. So what we need to do is, you know, it's really bad to put
things in somebody's plates. People are a bit more health
conscious these days, you have to realize that people are more
health conscious, they do count calories, right? When you say no,
no, it's just for today's and then you start shoving in their plate
that's wrong. Yes. If you know that they really want something
you feel like it then maybe do that, but otherwise don't do that.
It's still it's oppression. Right? It's oppression to stuff your
stomach and to stuff somebody else's stomach as well. Yes, feed
them. Well. You know what I think we should do. To be honest, what
we need to do
Have good food, excellent foods, right? Good quality food, small
amounts. But it's nice and it's excellent. There's no point in
having huge amounts of
cheap food, and then telling people eat.
So, anyway, these are just sight thoughts.
So it's about taking worth. If a person takes it with justice,
greed, then it's like the person is going to continue to eat, and
he's not going to get satisfied, then what happens? The stomach
gets problems, it leads to diseases. Upset Stomach, person
can't sleep properly, then he has to start taking soften Gaviscon
and all these other things. He has to go and take a walk when he's
not used to taking walks Subhanallah take the same thing.
When you have wealth. It'll just be so great that you're getting
wealth, you have wealth, but you're not satisfied. It's not
giving you any pleasure. It's giving you misery. You got a lot
of wealth but you got problems in the business. Suddenly you got a
tax bill. Inquiry, Allah prevent Allah protect from these kinds of
things. Suddenly you've got, you know, somebody's broken, somebody
did a massive, you know, credit card fraud.
And then okay, you might get your money back, but after six months,
you know, you have to work behind it. It takes away time from
everything else. This means there's no Baraka. You're not
enjoying your foods, something's come to upset it.
Number five is
something more practical. The prophets Allah some said.
Allahumma Burdick, the Almighty fie bucola. This is a narration of
Imam Muhammad from Iran, Muhammad, probably sauce was the was that oh
Allah give blessing to my ummah, in the mornings.
And that is why Sahara comedy, he would send his business people out
in the morning.
And he will be given blessing. There's a blessing in the morning.
That's why there's actually another narration which mentioned
that those who sleep
at sunrise, you know, after fajr sunrise time, you can see after
that if you want to if you because in England, I mean, our sunrise is
sometimes four o'clock in the morning, so you don't expect to
stay awake. But those who sleep around that time, they lose
blessing, they lose Baraka.
They lose Baraka, and those who get up early to do their business,
not all night, but get up early to do their business. They get Barak
and blessing him that and believe me, there's a lot of blessing in
the daytime. And this is this is actually scientific in a sense
that if you sleep early, any sleep you get before 12 o'clock is much
more potent than any sleep you get after 12 o'clock, midnight. So one
hour of sleep is probably worth about two hours of sleep after 12
o'clock. It's very interesting. This is the earlier you see we're
on 10 o'clock, you will feel refreshed at four o'clock in the
morning. If you woke up from 10 to four, that's probably enough, or
10 to five, it's probably enough. And there's a lot of people out
there, non Muslims, the very efficient people, they get up at
five o'clock in the morning and do exercise before they start their
work.
There's a lot of people who do that they don't waste time
watching TV or night.
That's for third class people. If you see the elite, they don't
waste time doing that kinds of day they know what they're doing.
They're not where they are for no reason.
So working early in the morning is as the Prophet sallallahu sallam
said, the promises are made to offer that. Number six is
following the Sunnah, in whatever activities we have in whatever we
do in our life to follow the way of the promise of awesome, the
professor Larson was human par excellence. He was the most
moderate and perfect human being.
He said things that seemed to be so insignificant, he said, Don't
sit half in a shade and half out of the shade. So half in the sun
and half in a shade is just unbalanced. He said, if you've
only got one slipper, don't don't walk in one slipper. It's not it's
unbalanced. Either take both of them off or get to slippers. He
said things like this is not just so called overtly religious things
that he spoke about. He talked about practical things. Don't
drink water that has been heated by the sun.
Because of certain ultraviolet light or X ray or whatever, you
know, rays or something like that which can cause certain illnesses
and problems. There's certain very practical things that the prophets
Allah Himself said at nighttime, make sure you extinguish all of
your lamps.
Because otherwise it's possible that an ant a rodent or
Whatever could just tip something over and you could end up with a
fire. Right okay that we don't have these open kind of lamps
these days.
Cover your food at night. Don't leave anything uncovered.
Because it says that this is when the illnesses and diseases descend
at nighttime.
Numerous things like that.
So in this case, to follow the Sunnah in every matter, for
example, the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, lick your fingers
after you eat.
lick your fingers after you eat. There's up the ramen do that.
Yeah, mashallah about Habib ramen?
Yeah. And
what was your name again?
Son, do you do that as well.
Even if you don't, you can start doing it from today when you eat
and thereafter, it will make sure you wash your hands before though.
You don't want to be licking your hands. If you haven't washed your
hands. That's kind of gross. So you wash your hands first, then
you eat. And then you lick your hands, you know, to, you know when
you're eating rice or something. So, so it's just to clean it off,
so you don't waste anything. Now the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, lick your fingers. Because he said in acuminata Runa
fee a year to me Kemal Baraka,
you don't know in which part or particle of your food is the
blessing. It's in one place. You don't know whether it is. So don't
waste it because you may be throwing the bulk of pot out. You
know, sometimes, I remember once I was with one family that invited
me. And you know, some cultures, the way they eat rice is a very
interesting way they eat with their fists. So they have this
huge amount of rice. And then they take with their fists like they
it's like they're shoveling it up with their fist, and they kind of
make a bowl with it. And then they put it in their mouth. Now
literally when they were eating father and son and myself.
It was we were all eating together from this big tray, like a big,
big dish. And in front of them. They had dropped so much to fill a
plate up.
So I told him I said maybe you should keep plates in front of you
like small plates so that whatever falls it falls into that plate.
Because the rest of it is just kind of taken. It's on the floor.
The Brabazon said don't do that. Baraka is in conservation, you
think you can waste things that Allah is going to give you more
No, because these are limited resources of the world. People are
dying for a few, a few rice, grains, people will be dying for
that in other places.
I remember when I was studying in South Africa, and we went to eat
in a like a mall, a semi mall or something. We bought our chicken,
whatever I was a student I didn't buy much, you know, we were
careful about how much we bought. And
I took it and I finished eating my friend finished eating. And then
after that we went and put the tubs by the you know, the
packaging by the bin. And somebody then comes up and he says, I don't
understand why he said this, because then somebody immediately
came along and opened it up to see if there was any, any flesh left
on that chicken,
that leg or whatever it was. That's what he would do. Anybody
threw somebody in, they will check. So somebody came and said,
Thanks for leaving him something. That was not our intention. We
probably just didn't clean it properly. You understand? But
that's what made me think Subhanallah we take these things
for granted. Wasting never helps. That's why there's a hadith of
Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam which is
a disorder of enough of cattiness will Maisha moderation in spending
is half of your livelihood.
We have no control of what comes in. But we know what's coming. We
do have control of what goes out. If you're moderate in that you
sold half of your livelihood problem, just budget. Don't look
at what others are doing. You don't have that kind of ability.
Don't look at that.
Do what you can do and be moderates. Then the wife doesn't
have to go and work. You don't have to force the wife to work.
You don't then have to force your older children to go on work. It
will be sufficed, they can focus on their education, maybe yes, we
should encourage our children to become responsible.
Number seven, is is still far to do is take for this is the very
powerful one. This is very powerful.
Allah subhanho wa Taala you see Hassan bossy, Rahmatullah. Allah
wants his sitting, and somebody comes and asks him a question. He
was like a counselor. He was like a religious guy, a spiritual
guide. People came to him because he was a master of all sciences.
Somebody came and said, you know, in our area, we got drought,
there's no rain.
There's no rain. So he said, Stop feeling love
You need to do stuff out of a lady to seek forgiveness from Allah.
Because when sins are removed, then the blessings begin. Remember
well off while Quran taco you do is still far and then that means
the sins are gone. People who have Taqwa they're not going to be
engaged in sin. Same thing the borrower card comes. The borrower,
the borrower comes when you have that when you have Taqwa. So he
said it's the filler. So the person Okay, goes away. Now the
person comes, he says, We're poverty stricken. We need
stockfeed Allah same thing do is too far. Okay. Third person comes
in.
He says you know having problem we can't get any male offspring.
We're trying but we don't get we want a son.
And I'm sure people know how that feels because the society is
really bad. There's a woman who called me once she said please
make dua please make dua is my economy which number child if I
don't have a son this time, my in laws are gonna know what they're
going to do to me. Please make dua for me that I get a son
as though it's in her hands.
They don't blame the guys like they blame the girl that I bring a
son MAN design a son inside you.
They blaming Allah subhanho wa Taala really but it's the culture
a culture is just sometimes overcomes the deen which is sad.
Anyway said do so far
is the fibula
then a fourth person comes in you know, probably over a few
occasions this happened. It wasn't like 123 doesn't have to be like
that. It could have been over the occasion. You know the wells the
water has dried up water source is stuck fairly low. Now this person
who's sitting with one of his students or somebody he says shake
What's going on everybody you're giving the same medicine is still
fairly low paracetamol paracetamol, paracetamol in like
doctors you go to them what do they give you paracetamol or cream
E for five? Just depends you know if it's an internal problem,
external problem, right.
So,
no, no, this is this is not paracetamol, this is some serious
stuff is too far. So when the his student asked him that question,
he said look, this is what Allah says in the Quran.
Allah says
that in sort sort of know
what's the Iona?
Yes. Is it
call to steal Pharaoh Rebecca.
seek forgiveness from your Lord.
Then
in the who can as a father because your Lord is the Most Forgiving
you've got a reason to it's not like you're asking somebody who
can't give you forgiveness. Allah remind us that far, abundantly
forgiving.
Forgive the greatest or the smallest of sins and He will
forgive you whether you sin over and over and over again he doesn't
tie it that's what he says as far as opposed to just love it. So in
our carnal afara you will see this summer are a committed rara he
will send down rain to you in abundance.
connection here, your city sama on a Commodore ora. When you did come
be a morning we're benim and he will extend and assist you with
wealth. Poverty gone. And children Bonnin sons
wager Allah calm and Hora and he will give you He will allow the
lakes to flow for you. Perfect,
perfect solutions, perfect prescriptions from the Quran. Were
better.
These are the means. So let me just repeat the means Doku Allah.
Now, the koala recitation of the Quran with some pondering and
reflection do
not to be greedy, and selfish when seeking wealth, have open hearts
about it and is thinking about it. And following the Sunnah as much
as possible in everything that we do.
Starting your work early in the morning, changing your schedule C
is changing the schedule, which means you'll become a more
productive person. All of these things are not just magical
things. They are practical things rather than if you're going to
wake up in the morning and do your business. You're going to be tired
by 10 o'clock that you're going to want to go to sleep. A lot of
people say I can't sleep at night because we then wake up late in
the morning. If you're forced the way they say is to change the way
they say to change your schedule is that wake yourself up some
However the other early in the morning for a few days and then
you will find that you will want to go to sleep early and your
whole mental clock will change afterwards the mental clock will
then adjust because everybody has a mental clock they used to it.
And finally is stuck for continue to do is stick for continue to do
is different. Let me tell you finish off. There's a very
interesting story who's who's from miracle here? Anybody from
miracle? Because the story about miracle.
So in Gujranwala, in one of the villages of Gujranwala, there was
a hockey himself, he used to have a surgery in town in the city, he
had a very strange way of working unusual way that most of us
wouldn't understand.
He would go to the city every day to open up his surgery. Before
leaving, he would ask his wife from the village, what do you need
from the city today, so which masala you know, some spices, I
need some oil, I need this, she would write it on a piece of
paper, and he would take it with him. When he would get there he
would check the paper the list only after getting the he would
look at it and he would he would then budget you'd say okay, this
cost 20 rupees and this cost 50 rupees, he would then total that
up. And then he would make a dua to Allah subhanaw taala, he would
say that, Oh Allah, I'm only coming here to, to earn a living
for my dependent ones. So when I have earned this living, as soon
as you give me this amount, then I will close shop and go back nearly
every day by about 930 to about 10 o'clock, he would see whichever
patients would come in. And he as soon as he made that amount of
money, if he was 500 rupees, 300 rupees, then he would close up,
and then he would go back, he would he would do his little
shopping and he would go back everyday. This was his story. He
says, I'm only doing this to fulfill my obligation of living,
of looking after my dependent ones. One day,
he left home as normal. And his wife gave him a little
piece of paper with the list. So he gets the opens up his surgery.
And he looks to start the budget. And there's a few spices and
things like that he budgets them and then it says
the daughters Jahaz Gamal
meaning his daughter is going to get married. So all of the things
that she needs to give to the other side, all the supplies that
you have to give in these cultures, unfortunately, it's
there. And sometimes that could debilitate people in getting their
daughters married. It's really strange.
In Arab countries, it's about the man having to pay a huge amount of
money. But in some of our countries, in some areas, like in
some areas of India, some areas of Pakistan and Bangladesh, the girl
has to cough up. And if a guy has had five daughters, he is going to
be miserable because of this culture.
So
he looks at that and he he writes next to it, he said, You Aloka
come here. Hola, Jana. Right? This is I'm going to have to leave to
Allah subhanho wa taala. Allah knows best how I'm going to make
this is used to everyday making the few 100 rupees, or you know, a
few 1000 Whatever it is, and this is just a huge amount of
difference.
And he starts his work. And he has seen patients, he sees a few
patients, and then suddenly this big car pulls up outside and cars
pull up all the time in that area. And so he didn't give it a second
look, it is normal. And a person comes in. This suited booted guy
comes in.
And he sits on the bench. So after Hakeem finishes off with the
current patients, he says to me, says, if you would like me, if
it's something about yourself, and please come next to me on this
chair, so I can check your pulse. So I can diagnose your problem or
if it if you come here to ask for somebody else's medicine, then let
me know what the symptoms are, what the problems are, and I'll
make your medicine.
So the person says my name is such and such, but it looks like you
haven't recognized me.
So that Hakeem sub probably looks bewildered. So he says,
Let me tell you 15 years ago, I had been I'm from Miramar.
But I'm coming from Lahore, and on my way from Lahore to Munich,
where I pass by
this area every time 5015 years ago.
As we were passing by this area, we had a puncture.
And it was really hot in the late morning, and as my driver was
fixing the puncture, I was there standing in the heat. And you saw
me so you came outside and said come in and sit down. So you made
me sit down and you had a small girl with you
And it took a while for the puncture to be fixed. But in that
time your daughter kept telling you, Oh, Father, Father, come on,
why are you taking so long? Let's go home, you know, it's, you know,
I'm hungry, or whatever it is, I'm hungry, you know, we need to go
home. And you kept telling her, just be patient, just be patient.
Then
I thought to myself, 15 years ago, when I was sitting there, that I'm
sitting here for free, maybe I should do something, this person
is
even laying his daughter, you know, comforting her. And, you
know, just for my sake, because so he said, that I decided to tell
you my story that I've been in England for five years. Now, this
story was sent to me, I don't know who this person is. I'd like to
meet him one day, if I could.
If it is a true story, right? So I mean, I have no reason to doubt
that it's a true story. He said, I'd been in England five years,
we've been trying to have children. But we just can't have
sure we've tried everything we've been had tests done in the you
know, in the hospitals there. We've done everything, but we just
cannot have children. So as I'm saying this, he started getting
some potions of medicine ready. He split it up. And then he put it
into two separate packages. And then he asked me my name. And I
said, my name is so and so. So he made he wrote it. And then he
said, Look, the problem you have only Allah subhanaw taala can fix
that. Doesn't matter who does tests doesn't matter who gives you
medicine?
He doesn't tell you that, oh, I've got a medicine for you. It's going
to cost you this much. He said, It doesn't matter what medicine you
take, which Hakeem gives you medicine. It's only up to Allah
subhanaw taala you need to ask Allah because he is the provider.
And then he said, Look, this one is for you. And this one is for
your wife. He put the two the two envelopes into a larger envelope,
a larger package, and he gave it to him. So I said, Okay, how much
is it? He said, No, today's today's balances is full. Today's
businesses closed. Sunday. Okay, what do you mean is closed. The
whole reason I did this is to pay you something and you're telling
me that the business is closed. So there was somebody else who'd come
in, who was a local, he probably knew he said, What he means is
that every day he comes in the morning, and however much he needs
for that day's
expenditure. That's how much he works. And then after that, he
doesn't do anything over that.
So
he said, this was quite amazing. And then, and then I left. When I
got home, I told my wife this story.
And she was amazed by the story that this Hakeem SAAB is such a
noble person, such a great human being that he first hosted you
like this, then didn't even take advantage of your situation.
Right, looking at you as a person who's wealthy, there must be some
blessing and Baraka in this medicine. Let's take it. They
started, you know, praying to Allah, whatever is and they
started taking this medicine. And he says today Alhamdulillah I have
three children. I have three beautiful daughters. I believe you
said daughters, so they have three beautiful children.
Now what happened is,
I have come right now, because my most of my family is in England.
Right? What's new,
most of my family is England. I've just got one sister, who's a
widow, who who's lost her husband, she's a widow. And she's a widow.
And she has a daughter. And it's, she's, I think 21 years old or
something. And she, her marriage is on the 21st of this month. And
we have come as a family. And we have taken responsibility for her
that she's our sister, she doesn't have any money. We are going to
pay the jazz, we're going to pay everything we're going to take
care of the entire marriage.
That's what we had come for.
However, what happened just five days before, so it's on the 21st
but five days before, what happened is that she had gone
shopping into the market and felt some headache or something come
on. She didn't tell anybody. She developed a fever, but she didn't
mention anything in the excitement or whatever the case is. And
finally she fell down in the market after doing a lot of the
shopping. They took her to the hospital but she had a very high
fever. They couldn't save her and she passed away.
Now we've done a lot of the purchase and everything. And me
and my wife have decided and it came into our mind that you're in
this Gujranwala area. And we remember that you have a small
daughter. We don't know what her state is, whenever she's going to
get married. If it's now or later. If it's now then we want to sort
the whole wedding out
and tell us your address. And we will send all of the
summon
All the shopping that we've done for it, tell us our, our truck or
whatever it is, we'll come and drop it at your place.
And if it's later on, then that's fine. We'll give you the money for
it. But if it's now then we want to do it.
And this Hakeem sub is just just looking totally dumbfounded. He
just can't believe what's happening here. So
he says,
that this morning I came.
And this is generally what I do that I look at my budget, and this
is what my wife had written. And this is what I had written there.
I'll tell you exactly what he had written.
He says, I think I should say this in order because
who doesn't understand will do here better?
I'll translate it for you as well. Halfway, I'll translate it for
you. Not so the person tells him. You have no refusal rights here.
You're going to take this, I think is making an imposition on him.
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boring for the rest of you, but for our brothers.
He said he was dumbstruck. He said, Look, I don't even
understand what's going on. Right?
He said this morning when my wife gave me the
list. And I came and checked it out. And it had Jessica salmon,
which means everything you need for a marriage for your daughter.
I was just how am I going to do this? So I wrote that this is for
Allah meaning this is I'm going to leave this to Allah. Allah knows
best how to deal with this. And now you come he says, I do feel
sorrow that your daughter your niece has died. But I'm just
Subhan Allah He calls out to Allah subhanho wa Taala Oh, Karim Avi
are great one oh benevolent one.
And then basically he says this, this is what's important to
understand. He says, he says that, since I have become mature, and
discerning and understanding.
He says that there is one lesson that I always do that I have read
and that I always follow, which is the in the morning I say raazi
Karasik to heroes IC. O Sustainer. O Sustainer. You're the only
Sustainer everything comes from you. And he says are Shymko Sugar,
Sugar Mala Tara sugar. Thank you. Thank you gratitude. It's only
thanks to you. Oh Allah. He is starting his day off with Allah.
He's ending his day with Allah subhanho wa taala. And everything
in between is Mubarak and Baraka. In fact, what the person had said
is that I've been trying to catch you for a few days. Every day I've
come I come in afternoon or evening, your your story is
closed. So yesterday, somebody told me you need to come at nine
o'clock in the morning to catch up himself. And that's why I'm here
today.
Now, if we could have that kind of Barack and blessing, and you know,
this is recent times, you know, this is probably last 1015 20
years. And this is not the only story. We don't have the time, but
there is stories like this from Maulana Yunus Patel, who was a
wonderful person on Rahima, who has passed away now in in Durban,
South Africa.
There are things like this about him as well that I've heard, but
it requires a certain level of Tawakkol to do this, you can't do
this. If you don't have reliance in Allah. You don't have any trust
in Allah how you're going to do it. You're gonna think Is he gonna
give me or not? Is he going to give me but if your Eman is strong
and you have the taqwa and you have the Tawakkol then you will do
something like this. May Allah grant us this level of Taqwa that
serious May Allah grant us this is not a story of 700 years ago or
1000 years ago, this is recent time with everything England,
Pakistan, Punjab, Miracle Kashmir, everything involved. May Allah
subhanaw taala make this a reality for us. May Allah subhanaw taala
grant us an understanding I'm not saying that that's all we can we
will do as well but at least it gives us some understanding of
having some contentment working with that one and Al hamdu Lillahi
Rabbil Alameen we will make a short door inshallah Lama and the
salam Inca Salam Tabarrok the other generic Quran, Allah who may
hate you yatta yatta Mirotic and study Allahumma Yohanna Yaman La
Ilaha illa Allah Subhana Allah in condemning avoid Amin Allahumma
salli wa suddenly Marla so you deny Mohammed why'd you say you
didn't know Mohammed or Burdick was?
Oh Allah, we asked you for your mercy. Oh Allah we asked you for
Your blessing of Allah we ask you for your
for your mercy and your generosity of Allah. We are in need of your
generosity. We are in need of your guidance of Allah we are in need
of your assistance of Allah forgive us for all those sins we
have committed in the openness of day darkness of night. Oh Allah,
those that we commit. And we think nobody knows about it. And we
think we're successful in it. But Oh Allah, those sins linger, and
they affect us. Oh Allah, we ask you, that you make your obedience,
beloved, in our hearts, and your disobedience hated in our heart of
Allah. Grant us your love and the love of those whose love benefits
us in your court. of Allah grant. Us a life of
purity and of Taqwa of Allah grant is a life of purity and of Taqwa
of Allah sufficeth us with what is halal away from what is haram?
Allah grant us blessing in what you have given us. And oh Allah
grant us full reliance and double colon you are what Allah grant us
full reliance in our colon you have Allah those who are seated
here on this Friday night. Oh Allah when they could have been
doing so many other things of Allah bless us all, and don't
allow us to return without having been written as people destined
for Paradise. Oh Allah grant us all baraka and blessing and make
us of your Olia Oh Allah make us of those who are close to your
Quran. Allah Allah those who remember you and who seek your
forgiveness abundantly. Oh Allah make us of those who fear you and
who, in who have inculcated your fear in our hearts and our people
of Taqwa and of the Moroccan Oh Allah make us leaders of the world
talkin make us a force for good except us for the service of your
deen. Oh Allah remove the difficulties that we may be facing
in our lives, fulfill our permissible needs. Oh Allah bless
us and our children and now progeny until the day of judgment
of Allah. There are many challenges out there, there are
many difficulties out there. Oh Allah, we ask You for assistance,
to stand up to these challenges and to be rightly guided in this
regard of Allah those who have established this masjid and the
massage that we have our Allah bless them are alive, they're
still with us then grant them a great life of Allah full of Iman
and Taqwa if they've passed, then our Allah grant them illumination
in their graves and ease of all the stages of the Hereafter engine
metal for those for all of us. And Oh ALLAH for the rest of us. We
ask You that You give us the ability to, to take these
to take these efforts even further. And oh Allah to do them
in the right way in the correct way. Oh Allah, we ask you for
help. We ask You for assistance. And we ask that you send your
abundant blessings in our messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and grant us this company in the hereafter.
Subhan Allah because Allah is at home now you'll see for when our
solar and wind are mostly in our hands.