Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Some Reflections on Surat al Isra’
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al Hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah Hamden
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Allah say you will have evil Mustafa SallAllahu Taala are they
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Dear brothers, sisters, dear friends, first time in this
masjid, nice to be with you today. Allah subhanaw taala opened his
doors of mercy for us and bless us all and make this Ramadan better
than any Ramadan before it.
Since the children are also listening, I think what we'll do
is Ramadan is the month of the Quran. So I'm looking at
some of the verses of the 15th juice today, the 15th Subhadra
there's a lot of guidance in there for us. So we'll start with our
older Bill him in a shape or annual Raji maybe Smilla Rahmanir
Rahim Subhana Allah the Srbije de la isla Amin al Masjid Al haram,
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in Tina, in who who has me all bossy? The 15 is just begins with
Surah to Bani Israel.
It begins with a surah of Bani Israel, which has a big discussion
about the children of Israel and
the various different histories that are related to it. So well
known history Allah subhanho wa Taala starts by saying that
Glorified is here who's who took his servant by night, he took his
servant by night,
from the Masjid Al haram to Masjid Al Aqsa,
the Masjid Luxa around which we had
blessed so that we can show him have our signs and he is the All
Hearing and the all seeing.
So that's Mr. Luxa from Masjidul haram Tomasi Luxa. These are two
of the earliest Christians in the world. Once while I was imam in
America, there was
an individual who was interested in Islam he was studying Islam. So
he came to the masjid and he said, You people always speak about the
importance of Masjid Al Aqsa.
But I've not found it written anywhere in the Quran. I've read
the whole Quran he was a non Muslim still studying Islam. And
he said I've not found it written anywhere in the Quran. I said no
it's there.
Look it's I'm half is of the Quran it's Masjid Al Aqsa is mentioned
the 15 Jews. Then I thought they said okay, which he obviously he
was looking at a translation. He wasn't looking at the Arabic. So I
said, which translation did you use? So he was looking at Abdullah
Yusuf Ali, it's a famous translation Abdullah Yusuf Ali.
It's quite an old one.
He was looking at that translation. So the way Abdullah
Yusuf Ali has translated this is glorified, if I remember
correctly, Glorified is He who took his servant by night from the
sacred precent, Masjid Al haram, sacred precent haram mean sacred,
inviolable, and Masjid he translated as precent area to
Masjid Al Aqsa, the furthest present. So that's why he couldn't
find mercy Luxor in the Quran. Because he was translated. Al
Masjid Al Aqsa means the furthest Masjid because in those days, it
was the furthest Masjid from Makkah. It was the furthest
Masjid. Otherwise, the area is Jerusalem Baytril MK this al
Baytril, maka, Deus. These are all the various different names that
are given to this. So Allah subhanaw taala speaks about the
Bani Israel and what they did, and what Allah subhanaw taala had
warned them about, and the punishment that came to them how
they were thrown out of Jerusalem. And then after that, Allah says,
again, if you're going to do this again, we'll do the same thing
again, all of that discussion is there. Allah subhanaw taala then
mentions
a number of things about the signs of the world like the the night
and the day, Allah subhanaw taala discusses that. Allah subhanho wa
Taala says about the Quran the purpose of the Quran, in the
Quran. Yeah, the reality here a poem. What you have is your own
meaning ALLAH Xena MeLuna Solly Hardy and John Kirby
this Quran guides towards that which is the most straight
And the most right and the most upright and correct. That's what
the Quran tells us.
And it gives glad tidings to the believers. Those who do good deeds
that for them is a huge reward. See the Quran many of us who are
not Arabs we mashallah we learn to read the Quran. Elif betta we
learn to read the Quran and we read the Quran Mashallah. And
that's great. We get huge reward for every letter, you get 10
rewards and in Ramadan, you get more rewards. So lots of people
they do lots of Quran reading and may Allah accepted. The Quran,
though, is not just the book of reading. The Quran wasn't sent
down just so that we read it. That's just one way of approaching
the Quran a blessed way.
The Quran is a message, it's a guidance, it's an interaction.
Allah is speaking us speaking to us through the Quran. If you read
the Quran, he asks us questions, says, don't you think?
Do you know why I did this? Or do you know why this happened? Do you
know what this is? Do you know what that is? This is questions.
And sometimes when we don't look at the translation,
we don't know that he's communicating with us.
In surah, Al Fatiha half of it is a dua that we are making a dua to
Allah subhanaw taala guide us to the straight path. So that's why
in our Salah, we sometimes don't have concentration because we
don't know what we're reading. We're reading it without meaning.
So I would encourage everybody, especially during the month of
Ramadan, to learn the meaning of certain fattier, many of you
probably already do so those who don't learn the meaning of Surah
Fatiha although they were built for the cloud a bit of business
school who Allah who had maybe 10 to us even if you get a general
idea of what the solar is saying, then when you start reading, when
you start praying you're solid mashallah be amazing.
You get concentration
thereafter that
Allah subhanaw taala speaks about a number of the prophets of the
past were lucky nominal Caroni mean barely know how many
different nations we destroyed after new Halle salaams
generation.
And Allah subhanho wa Taala knows Allah says Wa Katha be Rebecca be
the new Reba the hubby rhombuses Masirah. Allah knows, Allah is
well aware 100% aware of the sins of His servants, and he can see
and he can hear he knows exactly everything what's going on.
Now Allah subhanho wa Taala says that if you want to focus on the
world, for the advance not for the advanced, but for the
early, immediate blessings or bounties or goods of the world
will give it to you. So Allah subhanaw taala says in verse 18
mil Ghana Uriah de la jolla died Jelena houfy Manisha Lehmann read.
So Madonna who Jehan jasola, Boomer mother, hurrah. Whoever
wants
these early goods, lots of dunya dunya dunya will give it
no problem we can give as much as we want. We have the ability to
give you all what you want. There's no restriction
to whom he we want, but then we will just give him jahannam. But
that's not what we want to give you. We created you to be
successful. Allah created this wall as an empty hand as a abode
of examination. To test. We started in paradise, remember
that? So we were actually created for Paradise. But something
happened. So now Allah says, we're going to test you in this world.
And if you're good, then you will come to paradise. So Allah created
this world for success. You know, people who start schools and
madrasahs and universities, do they do it because they want to
fail people.
I'm going to create a madrasa or a school because I like to fail
people. I enjoy it.
Nobody does. That's crazy.
You create, to make people better, to make people knowledgeable, to
make people more aware. But some people don't work hard enough. So
Allah says okay, if you don't work hard enough, I love to punish you.
That's the system that Allah subhanaw taala is saying,
thereafter that Allah says, Woman, Allah, Hirata was Satya were who
are more men. For Allah eagerness are you who mascara and whoever
intends the accurate wherever his focus is the accurate and who
makes an effort for it so accurate cannot be gained without an
effort. We don't make efforts there.
they'll just be dunya dunya dunya you have to make an effort to get
the Akira and the person is a believer. Then his
his efforts, we will treat it with gratitude.
We will be very grateful to that we will treat it with gratitude.
Let's look at something this dunya Why is dunya called dunya? What
does dunya mean?
We translated as the world But what exactly does dunya mean?
Dunya means close. That's the word dunya just means close. Because
this is the close world, a dar or dunya the close abode the close
house the close place. That's what it is. Dunya it's called the close
one. Because it's close is we're in it right now. Where are we
going? To the Ark era to the next world? Again, our hero just means
the next world at Dar Al Hijrah. Dar means house. Dar means place.
Our hero just means the next one. So which one comes first? The
dunya does. Right your understanding right? What's your
name?
Yeah.
Amen. Mashallah. So Amen. Your understanding right? Okay, the
dunya comes first the attacker comes second. Now, if you are if
somebody wants to go to the Akira, can you go directly to the hero,
you have to go through a dunya
you have to go through the dunya. So dunya is necessary here is
necessary as well. Now, we're definitely going to go to the
athlete. All right, everybody believes that insha Allah to Janna
child agenda. So now the question is that, we, when we make choices
for this world, we all have to make choices, we have to make a
plans, and we take certain courses we buy, we work, because we're
planning for the next 510 years. As Muslims as believers in the
Akira, which is the real world,
what we need to do is we need to plan for the akhira as well, for
the next world as well. And it's easy to do that.
See, if you plan just for the dunya
then the hero doesn't come into it. Because if I'm planning just
for the next 1015 20 years of the world, our hero does not come into
it.
But if I plan for the dunya with the hero in mind, then the dunya
will also be dealt with and the Archaea will also be dealt with.
So you're still gonna have to live in the dunya. And your plan will
include the dunya but the Akira will also be made. For example,
two people go to university, two guys go to university. One has
these big ideas, that he wants to get a job in this particular
company in his subject, and he wants to make this money and so on
and so forth. The other one, I'm going to university because I want
to get away from home
because my parents, they're too strict. So I just want to go to
university so I can have some freedom
I can enjoy.
Now tell me these two people are they going to work the same way?
Clearly the one who's got ambitions and goals mashallah even
this will improve the one who has just ambition for this university
next three years.
Then it's just going to be for the three years because he's not even
thinking of the future I'll deal with that when I get to it.
You know Janna paradise is that where we want to go? We want to go
to Jana the gardens see Jana means gardens. Because most of it is
garden there's buildings there as well. But you're not going to be
stuck in a building in paradise.
In England, we're stuck in buildings. Right? But the ideal
thing is that you can go outside and enjoy the greenery the water
beneath which rivers flow those streams and all that amazing
things. Jana is called the Garden yes there are buildings in there
there's you know, Hadith which tell us your your the buildings in
there will be gold and silver and musk and everything else. You can
go in there for privacy with your spouse's.
I don't want to start speaking about spouses right now. Because
that's a very interesting topic. But gender is the garden agenda.
Now you want to go to Jana. Have you ever read a review of Jana? If
you want to go holiday somewhere? Like you want to go to holiday in
Morocco? Do you just book Morocco? You don't know anything about
Mark? I'm just going to book I'm gonna go there. Or do you ask
whether you've been to Morocco? Can you please tell me about it?
Is it worth going there?
You read reviews, you read brochures? You check the online,
read reviews, right?
Have you ever read a review of paradise?
Have you ever check for reviews of paradise? Details of paradise? I
guess you can't ask anybody who's been to paradise already. But you
can definitely read reviews about paradise Allah subhanaw taala
fills the Quran with reviews of paradise 100
has an accurate reviews not even any false reviews like you get on
Amazon and other places.
You know, our attitude to Paradise is like this. I don't know maybe
you can relate to this, you know if there's somebody in habibganj
or Ali four or Bishnoi or somewhere and he wants to come to
London
he wants to come to London he sees dreams London.
In India, London is the whole country.
Right? And then when you say no, I'm from London, say in India they
say proper London I said there's only one London
because for them the whole country is London bus London. That's the
dream. Subhan Allah, Allah, Allah Allah. Allah is grace for us,
Allah preserve them. Allah preserve everybody.
They want to come to London.
For them, they want to come anywhere in London doesn't matter
drop me off at the seaside. Drop me off on the coast, it doesn't
matter where dropped me off in Newcastle. They don't care. They
just I want to get to London, I don't care where in London. No
problem, I just want to get to London. Our attitude to paradise
should not be like this. Our attitude should be planned. We
find out Jana has many different types. There's gender tool for
those. That's the LOL agenda. There are the agenda to iden.
There's Jana, to name And subhanAllah, you know, Allah
subhanaw taala descriptions of paradise. When you plan for
something, it's just much better, more successful. So going back to
this point, the dunya we're gonna plan for the dunya with a view of
the era, our dunya will also be done. If I'm going to buy a house.
Where am I going to buy a house? How do I think of an era if I'm
going to buy a house?
Think about it. If I want to buy a house, how do I think of the hero
when I buy a house?
If I think purely from a dunya perspective, and I've got a lot of
money, then I'm gonna go and find the best house somewhere. And it
doesn't matter who else lives there, whether there's a masjid
close by or not. I just want the best house where I can show off I
can show that, you know, I've got substance. I've not considered
Akira.
But if I buy a house and I've got lots of money, and I want to buy a
house, but I want to focus on the hereafter as well. The first thing
I'm going to look for is that is there a masjid close by? Because
I'm going to have children will they be catered for? Will they
have the right place to get educated? I'm going to think of
these things for the accurate purposes.
Again, planning for the world I need a job.
Right I need a job.
If I'm doing a job purely for the dunya, then I don't care whether
it's halal or haram. I don't care whether it's fitna in there or
not. Whether the income is 100%, halal or not.
Whether it's odd hours or crazy hours, or whatever the case is,
because I just want dunya. But if my focus is 8090 100 years beyond
the accurate as well, then the job that I get, hopefully is a job I
can pray. It's a job I can
act as a Muslim, embrace my faith, not have fitna and so on. That's
what I'm saying. That's the way we need to focus on the agora, the
dunya will get done. And when you do that, you get more Baraka in
your dunya when you do it for the right reason, you get more
blessing in the dunya Otherwise Allah leaves you to it, then if
you're 60 years old, otherwise you're not successful.
So may Allah subhanaw taala make it easy for us. Now, Allah
subhanaw taala moves into something very specific from verse
23. Allah says, work although Rob Booker terrible do
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and carries on Allah subhanho wa Taala has decreed that you should
not worship anybody but Allah. That's just a reminder, we know
that. But Allah reminds us again, you should only worship Allah. And
you should have excellent treatment of your parents. You
should do Xand to your parents, you should deal with them in the
most excellent way.
You owe them a lot. Because after Allah, your parents come second in
terms of
how we came into this world.
And this is where it gets difficult. Sometimes our parents
are challenging. They're difficult.
They're tough.
They're not easy going.
Right? And on the one hand, we have the Quran verse that you must
be good with your parents, and not other hand they're making us cry.
We can't do anything right. We're always doing something wrong.
Does anybody feel that way?
Sivan Allah. So what do you do?
You see, if you have a wife, a spouse, and they're tough, you can
divorce, you can find another one.
But there's some things.
If you have a car that's giving you trouble, get another one. No
problem. But there's some things which Allah has made us linked
forever. Whether we like it or we didn't choose this, this is what
Allah put us there. That's where we have to keep in mind that we
have to just do the best in that situation. Allah for will insha
Allah forgive us for mistakes we make. If we make Toba, that's
fine. But we do our best in that regard.
Now, when it comes to parents that Oh, am I right? Because a lot of
the time what happens is that your parents tell you don't pray. For
example, Don't go to the masjid.
A lot of people get confused, because I must obey my parents.
I must obey my parents. So should I not go to them? Should I not
pray? Should I not cover? Should I not keep a beard? Should I?
You know, whatever the things are. So
the folk Aha, our jurist, they have made
guidelines for this. They've mentioned that look, sometimes
parents are oppressive. The parents are violent. They're
oppressive. They're unjust. Sometimes that could happen.
For example, one man told me, he looks after his parents, they live
in his house, his wife and himself and the children, they serve the
parents all the time. He's got another younger brother, the
parents don't live with him. But they always favoring that brother.
They live in his house. But they always favoring the other brother.
That's tough. Subhan Allah, Allah make it easy. That is tough. I can
understand that. Because you can't just get angry on your parents and
say, You are unfair. I mean, you are like this, you're bad.
Whatever, you you just can't do that. But then how would you deal
with this then? So we have to say you make supper, Allah will reward
you, you do the best that you can do? That's that situation? What
about if your parents are telling you to do something haram? While
Allah makes it very clear, you do not follow them in that you're not
obliged to follow them. In fact, Allah ma have written that if your
parents, if you want to do something,
like
even muster have a sunnah. And your parents say, Don't do it,
because they don't like it.
Should you do it or not? They're saying that, if you're you're
doing it is going to
neglect them, somehow, it's going to cause a problem in their
service,
then you can't do this because you're serving them as necessary.
But if they're healthy, and mashallah they're healthy. And by
you doing this, it's going to be beneficial for you.
And it's not going to harm them in any way, then you have a right to
do that. But just keep being polite with them.
The most difficult situation is for our youth, when the parents
want them to marry someone like their nephew or niece. And the
child doesn't want to, what do you do in that situation?
What we say from before is, don't wait until this time, don't wait
until your children become 23 years old. And now you have to
have this discussion, and you're not on the same. You're not on the
same wavelength. You need to start talking about this from earlier,
you need to understand what your child wants, you need to make
their mind from before. And they need to understand what you want
from before when they can't when they become 25. And then you just
suddenly say, Oh, you need to marry.
That's a surprise. It's a shock. And they may not want to do it. So
the ideal situation is started earlier.
You know, we discuss what would you Who would you like to marry?
This is what we think and meet somewhere. That's the best
situation and everybody's happy. And if everybody's happy, it's a
better family. Otherwise, what's the point of an angry family of
this of a disjointed family of a disputing family? You know,
there's no happiness in that. Okay? What happens if you as a son
or daughter and your parents say at the age of 20, you must marry
this person, what should you do?
And you were interested somewhere else, then I would say that you
must do your best to try to see if you can marry who your parents
want you to marry. You do your best because you need your
parents. Your parents have done a lot for you. Yeah, they do.
You they, they have
entitlement, you owe it to them. So you do your best to try to make
that work. But in some cases, the choice is a very bad choice.
Because, you know, we get the questions of people's marital
problems. Sometimes it's just a very bad choice. It just can't I
do istikhara it's no, but the parents saying yes.
Subhanallah that's a tough one.
In that case, consult a scholar. Because that's a tough case.
The hokum is you're not obliged to marry that person, especially if
you have made matura and 100%. It seems that it's not going to work
for you because the guy's a bad guy. Right. Sometimes parents make
people marry druggies, or they make them marry a relative just
because to keep the family ties and or in a particular village or
whatever the case is Allah subhanaw taala Masha Allah, do you
think
100 years ago, we would have ever met
I don't think 100 years ago, everybody sitting in this room,
unless you're from the same village or same few villages that
we would have even met that was for hundreds of years. Unless you
are a major traveler. Allah has brought us close together
mashallah now, you know, from different countries, different
villages, we have to learn with to live with one another. And may
Allah subhanho wa Taala make that easy. So now Allah subhanho wa
Taala says, if any of them, if any of your parents reach an old age,
any of them reach an old age, they eventually will reach an old age
if you don't die earlier. Or both of them reaching old age now,
fella Taku Lahoma. Don't even say oh, now off is just the Arabic
word. Now, in Gujarati, I don't know what do they say? What do
they say in Bangladeshi for off?
Same thing, not doula.
That's different. Okay. My friend used to say that to me, that's why
I know that word. Right? What does that mean? Same thing. Okay.
So door used to say, like, get away or get out or something?
Well, you're not gonna say that to your father off is actually just
it's the minor word. So obviously, anything bigger than that you
can't say.
Now what about if you disagree on something they clearly wrong?
Still, you can't say Oh, you just politely decline.
You politely say, Look, you know, or just stay silence.
You don't have to do what they tell you to do if it's wrong, but
you're not allowed to say anything bad to them. Sometimes we make
mistakes though. You get angry, we make mistakes, we say things to
our parents. And Allah forgive us for that we make Toba, we ask for
forgiveness. Allah rewards hugely, because this is such an important
relationship. At the end of the day, when the parents grow old,
they need their children. Think about that the children we should
think about this. Who else are they going to go for for help? If
it's not for their child, why did they have children?
It's so that they're not lonely when they when they are to old
age. That's why Allah has given huge rewards for people who
respect their parents. There's one man I was told about his, you
know, some people they develop ear hearing problem.
So they can't hear properly.
Allah subhanaw taala. You know, we're told that Don't raise your
voice to your parents. Don't raise your voice to your parents. Now
his parents can't his mum can't hear properly.
So if he speaks to her, he has to speak loudly. Have you seen with
some parents because they can't hear you say, Mommy eat the foods
Carnac Hello, you know, or something like that. Now he's
remembering that I should not raise my voice to the parents.
So whenever he would go to visit her physically, he would just sit
there and listen to her. He wouldn't say anything. Because she
couldn't hear him unless he spoke loudly. And he did not want to
speak loudly in front of
you just listen to and smile. Then what he would do is whenever he
would be at home, he would call her and because she could hear
from the phone because he's right there. He would only speak to her
on the phone.
But he would not speak to her physically because he would have
to shout and he did not want to shout and mashallah, this guy got
a huge reward.
This guy got a huge reward.
See, this is being clever. This is being clever about how to do this
to observe this.
So, yes, parents can be difficult, but they need us and it's a
relationship that can't be broken.
So if we have bad parents or bad brothers or bad children, okay
with bad
Children, we can say that we did bad therapy. That's why we can
blame ourselves. But you can't blame yourself for bad parents,
can you? So who you're going to blame? You can't blame anybody.
That's Allah subhanaw taala gave you that challenge. Maybe he wants
your status to be elevated by the subject that you will do. I
guarantee you any children, and we're all children of our parents,
even if we're 50 years old, right.
If we have tough parents, but we persevere, then maybe this is
Allah's blessing on us in a tough way. Because sober has the
greatest reward. Out of everything in Islam Sabra has the greatest
reward. That's why fasting is sober. And Allah says, I'm going
to give you a rewarding for it, reward for it, because somebody
is, without someone you could not live in this world. Otherwise, you
will be arguing you'll be miserable, you will be sad, you
will be
destroyed. Imagine if you can't, because you can't get your way all
the time. So if you have a brother, or a sister, or pair,
especially parents that are tough, ask Allah for help because nobody
else can help you. And so we make our best effort to do that. That's
why then Allah subhanaw taala says, and say to them, honorable
things, say to them noble things, and lower your wings of humility
for them. Don't be arrogant in front of your parents just because
now you're stronger. And your father is weaker. That's the same
father that used to carry you.
When you are weak,
just because you become stronger now.
And mashallah, you pull a few weights,
and you could probably beat your father or your mother up.
Allah says, do this out of mercy. This is mercy when you show mercy
to others. And this world cannot work without mercy to one another.
Allah subhanho wa Taala is the Most Merciful One A Rahman and
Rahim and we're told by the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam era hammelmann Fill out your ham, Command V sama. Have
mercy on those on the earth.
And the ones in the heaven, the angels and so on. Would Have mercy
on you.
Rahim, Allah, your humble, humble Rockman.
Those who are merciful the Rahman will have mercy on them.
So do this out of mercy. I know it's tough. I know it's difficult,
but do this out of mercy because your reward can only be given to
you by Allah. You may be miserable in this world, but your reward
will only be given to you by Allah will call Rob Durham Houma comma
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and now make this dua, our Lord, our Lord, have mercy on them, just
as they
did my tarbiyah and nurtured me from a young age or in a young
age,
have mercy. This is because they did for us, we are now asking
Allah subhanaw taala maybe that's one of the best gifts we can give
to our parents is to be to be kind and honorable to them and to
respect them and to be service of service to them and to have mercy
on them. And then Allah says, Look, Rob bukem Allah will be
Murphy Novo Zima Allah knows what's in your heart. You know, if
we make mistakes, we do get angry. Sometimes in sha Allah, Allah
knows what's in our heart that we want to respect, but shaytaan
overcame us in the Kulu, Salah Hina for in the who can a
wellbeing of aura, if you are going to be righteous. And if
you're going to be righteous, then Allah subhanahu wa taala is all
forgiving. For those who turn back to him. We've made mistakes. Maybe
we've done bad with our parents, right? Or with anything else for
that matter. May Allah subhanaw taala forgive us if we've got true
sincere repentance. And then Allah subhanaw taala says that don't
forget your relatives as well. What are the the CORBA haka, give
them that your close ones give them their rights.
Today is a weird world.
There's a lot of people today who get along much better with their
friends and their family. They've not seen the aunties for such a
long time.
They don't enjoy going to see the aunties. Maybe the auntie is not
enjoyable. Maybe the uncle is not very enjoyable. Someone calls me
not every Auntie is so enjoyable, you know, and that you enjoy being
with them, right?
What you do is you at least just give them a call and you just keep
your relationship.
Unfortunately, in our times, our relationship is based on
reciprocation. If they come we go, if you don't come, I'm not gonna
come. He's not been to my house for six months. I'm not gonna go.
I have made a different policy. And I said this to all my
relatives that I don't care if you don't come. For me, it doesn't
bother me. If you don't come no problem. I'm gonna come to your
house when I can do
because that's my responsibility.
I'm not going to do it just because you come or you don't
come. Seriously. I'm very busy so I don't get to go all that
Time, but my intention is to go. And when I go I go even if they've
not been to my house for two years, you know, the families they
grow, you know, 60 years ago when our Muslim community is how old 60
years approximately 1950 Something is started initially, and then big
families came 70s 60s 70s And now mashallah, you know,
is difficult, that one, three brothers who came to the UK, their
families have gone into, like, 200 people now how can you keep it
with everybody you know, is difficult, you just do your best,
you just do your best, so at least I am not sinful in front of Allah
subhanaw taala. And the baraka is that Prophet sallallahu sallam
said that whoever is good with his family,
whoever is good with his blood relatives, that the exact words
are that whoever wants to leave a mark to have an extension in life,
that his effect in life will be extended, that could mean you give
them longer life, or that you will leave a legacy than they should be
good with their relatives, is a Baraka in that. And subhanAllah. I
have seen in many families, that if there's one of the brothers,
one of the members, and he is the most obedient to the parents, and
he serves them more he has the most Baraka.
I've seen cases where two three brothers, one is an alum as well.
The other one is very religious. The third one is decently
religious, not as much as the other two, but he has more Baraka
than these people.
Because he is known to give the baraka in your life that you get
from parents because Allah incentivizes This is amazing. So
we ask Allah subhanaw taala to help us and Allah in the next
verse, it's related, you know, when you Allah has made it a
sadaqa to spend on your family. If I spend and give money to on my
welfare trust, I get rewarded in sha Allah to give to the poor.
If I spend on my family for their needs, then I get rewarded for
that as well. But what happens is because it's your own family, you
might get a bit overboard and you might start extravagance, you
might start doing a Seraph wastage. Allah doesn't like that.
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Those who squander wealth, who waste wealth, use it in the wrong
ways.
If I spend on my family to do something wrong or haram is
completely wrong. If I do something, if I spend on them to
show off, that's wrong.
Those who are squandering their wealth they're the brothers of the
shaytaan.
And shaytaan is a very ungrateful to his Lord. May Allah subhanho wa
Taala allow us to have a balance. May Allah protect us from
stinginess, and also protect us from acts from extravagance and
excess and may Allah subhanaw taala allow us to be obedient to
our parents and understand the message of the Quran. And may
Allah subhanho wa Taala allow us to interact with the Quran
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Quran. Oh Allah bless us all. Oh Allah make life easy for us. Oh
Allah make life the way you want us to be. Our Allah make our lives
the way you would like us to be. Make your obedience. Beloved, in
our heart of Allah make your disobedience hated in our heart.
Oh Allah forgive us our sins. Forgive us our wrongdoings our
excesses our shortcomings of Allah, O Allah Our distractions,
forgive us our sins that we remember and those that we have
forgotten of Allah, those that have brought miseries in our home
of Allah forgive us from doing sins that have taken the blessing
out of our houses of Allah
For that those sins which have caused disunity to appear among
us, for us to be conflicting with one another, to turn fathers
against children and mothers against husbands and husbands
against mothers, and Oh Allah, this fire that there is raging in
the homes of Allah allow us to understand and rectify ourself, Oh
Allah, we ask you forgiveness from those sins that have now become
part of our life, and we no longer even consider them sins anymore.
Oh Allah grant has beneficial knowledge of Allah bless all of
those who have established these messages. And Allah some of them
have passed away Oh ALLAH illuminate their graves and those
who are here Oh Allah grant them great rewards. Oh Allah accept us
all for some service of your deen of Allah the few worships that we
do in this month of Ramadan if we cannot be forgotten, forgiven,
then what a deprivation it will be our Allah allow us to be
completely forgiven of Allah writers of those whose names are
written in the register of those who have been freed from hellfire
of Allah make us closer to you in this month of Ramadan than we've
ever been before. And make this Ramadan better and more fruitful
for us than we have ever had before. But Allah The main thing
is allow us to come out of Ramadan closer to you and remain close to
you. So why not because I realized that you and I are safe on our
Salah and when I will notice it and I will handle
the point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on there, the Islamic
essentials certificate which you take 20 Short modules, and at the
end of that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of
the most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more
confident. You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue
to live, you know to listen to lectures, but you need to have
this more sustained study as well as local law here and Salam
aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.