Abu Taymiyyah – POWERFUL Celebrity Depression Compared to Living the Quran
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My beloved brothers and sisters,
a lot of people today,
they are on a mission
of finding that which is going to bring
them
that spiritual contentment that money can't buy.
Many people are soul searching.
One of the most common questions and queries
that I get sent
is, brother,
please help.
I'm spiritually dead. I'm spiritually empty.
I'm not satisfied in my life, even though
they have
the glitters and the glamours of this world.
However,
they are still empty brothers and sisters.
They are depressed.
I engage with multimillionaires
brothers and sisters.
Allahu alaaleem.
People who are filthy rich,
they are not happy in their lives.
They cry themselves as faith.
I get contacted on Instagram
by individuals
who have these blue ticks,
verified accounts.
You click on his profile,
and the man has everything you could think
of. That's Shabaab and Shabbat
Young people today crave
cars, women,
money,
flushing around.
Some of these guys are rappers.
Some of these guys are influences.
Right?
However,
start the conversation,
and one of the first things that he
sends is, you know, that emoji, the yellow
emoji with the tears?
The man needs help.
He's suffering.
The way things were 10 years ago
is not the same as how it is
today.
Right?
The spirituality of the people is very, very
different.
A lot of us don't have our priorities
straight.
We are soul searching, confused,
not knowing which direction to go in.
Before I go into the lecture that I
really wanted
to
deliver
about the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
which is the cure and the solution
to a lot of the problems that we
are going through on a day to day
basis, my beloved brothers and sisters.
Take this from me. The Quran
is the solution and
today I'm going to show you guys how.
How this will put us in a much
better place spiritually.
That which we are crying out for
just to be content, just to be at
peace.
Right?
But before I do,
I collect these links
from Daily Mail.
Don't go on these websites, guys.
Every now and again, I might come across
this article and I save it.
It comes in handy
when we get together
times like this.
Right?
Before I read out
some of these articles,
I want to ask you guys,
do you guys know Jim Carrey?
Have you guys heard of Jim Carrey? Who's
Jim Carrey?
He's an actor slash comedian.
Canadian slash American.
Right?
You know what he said?
I think everybody should get rich and famous
and do everything they ever dreamed of so
that they can see that it's not the
answer.
Like I said to you guys, I engage
with multimillionaires,
and I don't take a single penny of
them.
It's not them funding the Dawah, guys.
I pay them to skin.
It cuts out my videos a month to
the amount
that helps them get by from my own
pocket.
Even though they offer me a lot of
money, we can give you this. We can
give you that.
But you know when you start taking
perks and also money from
multimillionaires,
it's hard to give that out to them.
It's really, really hard. It's really, it is.
I have a principle, you can't give dawah
to those that you take money from.
That's why I'm not an imam.
Right?
That's just my view. You don't have to
take it. It's very hard.
I found this on the Daily Mail. It
said
about 70%
of people who suddenly receive a windfall of
cash,
like they win the lottery,
will lose it within a few years.
It's a 70%
of people
who suddenly receive a big amount of cash.
They will lose it within
a few years, according to the National Endowment
For Financial Education.
Lotto Laut,
Michael Carroll,
makes double suicide attempt
after squandering
9,700,000
jackpot.
Why if I had that money, guys?
Trying to take Dao to another level. We'll
take over the world.
Carol,
an alcoholic who is now on benefits,
£9,700,000
he has squandered, guys. He is now on
benefits.
I think a lot of people on benefits
here in this area.
Is that
true?
Who is now on benefits after blowing his
winnings.
By the way, there's nothing wrong with taking
benefits. It becomes a problem when you start
cheating the government. So I don't know why
you guys are laughing.
Benefits take it. People lose their jobs.
Mhmm. Becomes a problem when you start
claiming to be single,
and then the husband is creeping in through
the window.
Claiming that you're single just so you can
get extra
pounds and
When you lose your job, if they are
saying we will give you x y z,
if this is your situation or your condition,
I appreciate.
So Carol, an alcoholic who is now on
benefits after blowing his winnings on drugs and
high living,
was taken by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth
Hospital
in nearby King's Lynn.
That's just 1.
Number 2,
EuroMillions
winner,
56 years of age, who said,
27,000,000
jackpot
destroyed her life,
is found dead in her Belfast home.
Police say
death of Maggie Millions,
that's what they called her.
Her nickname
became Maggie Millions.
Who spent her fortune on property and good
causes,
is not
suspicious. Why is it not suspicious?
Why is it not suspicious, brothers and sisters?
Because of what I mentioned earlier.
A lot of these individuals who become suddenly
so rich,
right,
they suffer.
They really, really do.
Right?
And it's Allah
showing them that this is not the answer.
Look at mister Carroll
and Maggie Millians.
You think that money will actually buy you
the happiness?
The way this dunya has been created, my
brothers and my sisters, it is there
to entice you. It beautifies
and glamorizes itself,
tricking and deceiving you, making you think the
moment I acquire it,
I will perhaps
become satisfied
and be at peace.
Shaitan is having a laugh at you guys.
That's how you think it is.
The moment you acquire that dunya, the glitters
and the glamours
of this world, thinking the halas, it's now
time for me to enjoy myself. It's only
going to last a little bit, and then
you're back to square 1.
Right?
So why did they say that this is
not
suspicious?
They say about her that she bought the
ticket that landed the windfall when she was
walking back from the job
center, living on benefits of just £58
a week.
Imagine having that kind of lifestyle and all
of a sudden,
millions.
Her sudden death is not being treated as
suspicious,
and is a tragic end to years of
troubles.
Years of troubles. It is a tragic end
to years of troubles.
She is not thought to have ever married.
Right? Right? But is survived by her 4
brothers and sisters.
Her good luck saw missus Loughrey dubbed Maggie
Millions,
and allowed her to buy a property empire
including
a 125,000
bungalow,
a pub,
and a fell, and a former Milton leisure
center.
And she gave at least halfway to good
causes.
But she was sectioned
4 months after the draw,
and later described life as a multimillionaire,
as if there is a *.
I have been in it, she says. No.
You still got the other * waiting for
you.
It has been that bad.
Miss Loughrey
dumped Maggie Millions, later claimed
people had stolen 1,000,000 from her,
adding, I regret winning the lottery.
Of course, I do.
I was a happy person before.
I am a human being,
and all it has done is destroy my
life.
At the most recent count,
she said she only had 5,000,000 left and
remarked,
you can't take your money with you.
There is no shrouded pockets.
Rings a bell. Right? Can't take your millions
with you. You know the shroud?
The white thing that you are covered with
before
you admitted into that grave,
doesn't have pockets.
Who told us this my brothers and my
sisters?
But I'll guarantee you guys, me mentioning this
is going to strike a chord,
because it's someone that lived amongst us.
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasall.
1400 years ago or more than 1400 years
ago, uttered these statements. Right?
When one passes away,
3 things follow him. 1 stays and 2
come back.
While the tutor comes back, his man, his
wealth, and also what? Those who dropped him
off from his family members. And the only
thing that says what? Good days.
I'm looking at some of the pictures
of her home.
It's amazing.
However,
she lived a miserable life.
A mechanic who scooped
a staggering
€108000000
jackpot in 2014
says
his new life of luxury
quickly became quite boring.
A life of luxury of mansions
and supercars,
boring.
Have you guys heard of,
Francesco Totti?
You millennials probably won't remember.
I won't ever know, I think.
Some of our oldest
right?
He was like the free click machine. Forget
David Beckham. Some of you guys might still
not know him.
The 45 year old retired
footballer
in 2017
has admitted
that he struggled to cope without being out
on the pitch.
And he then lost his father in COVID
in October 2020.
During these challenging times, he feels that his
wife was not there to comfort him.
A multimillionaire, guys.
Right. His wife was not there to comfort
him.
He struggled to cope without being out on
the pitch.
Brothers and sisters, we see a lot of
these footballers today. Right?
They are
living lavish,
full lives.
Sahih.
And we aspire to have lives like that,
Not actually realizing that this is temporary,
because there is no footballer that is going
to last forever.
Look at Cristiano Ronaldo. He's struggling to let
go.
I forgot which Man United player this was.
Right?
He said that he needs to learn to
let go.
Obsessed.
Some of these footballers, my brothers and my
sisters, some of these footballers.
Right?
It is their worst nightmare to think about
what they will do after footballing.
When you're used to a type of life,
it is very, very hard to just adapt
to something else.
Even some of these managers in the past,
I've heard them say, khalas, they're done. They're
not going to manage anymore. They're just going
to go and spend time with their
wives.
Only for him to come back. He's be
he wants to become a manager at the
age of what? 70 something.
Like, this guy called Neil Warnock. I think
that's his name.
Are you guys surprised that I know all
these names? I
had Charles or West Ham,
but I'm retired now.
I hung up my boots, guys.
I
don't know. Did they win today, or
did they lose?
Because
they they cause a lot of traffic
when it's coming to the lecture.
Someone said if Obatim was playing for them,
they'll probably be doing a lot better.
There's another footballer, brothers and sisters, that I
really want to share with you guys.
Adriano.
Have you guys heard of him? He's a
player for Inter Milan.
He netted 74 goals in a 177
matches for Inter before injuries and the death
of his father,
who raised him in one of Rio's,
Io de Janeiro,
Toughest
favelas
caused a downward spiral into depression and booze.
The forward recalled an interview
with r seven magazine. Look what he says.
I felt very lonely
after his death.
Everything got worse,
because I isolated myself. I was alone in
Italy,
sad and depressed,
and then I started drinking.
I only felt happy when I was drinking.
That's how the statement before. They drink to
forget we do the karts. Remember?
I do it every night, he said.
I drank everything.
I could get my hands on wine.
So he says, I drank everything I could
get my hands on.
Wine, whiskey, vodka beer.
This is the state of a lot, of
these multimillionaires.
A brother came up to me
after the lecture that I gave in Edmonton
Islamic Center.
One of the points that I mentioned was,
when you sin, it affects your provision.
It affects your
financial situation, guys. I think I talked about
it last time, Ram, when I came to
this message, right, when I went through some
of the consequences and effects of sins.
So he said to me, why is it
that all of these Kufar,
all these non Muslims, right, they are living
the life.
They seem extremely happy. I was like, is
that really the case?
I gave you guys the example of all
these footballers, Jim Carrey,
some of these other very well known celebrities.
I always mention in my lectures, you guys
probably heard it before, all these YouTubers that
you see, Logan Paul, KSI, and
Justin Bieber, Adi Monterrey as well. Right? Even
the other guy called The Beast.
FouseyTube,
who more than once
came out to speak about his bipolar and
his depression.
Saher?
And then when he was recently interviewed just
before his boxing match, look what he said.
And they were asking, asking him, how do
you feel?
He goes, I stopped watching *, I stopped
drinking, I stopped doing zina. Right? I don't
take drugs anymore, and I'm staying on top
of my salah, and I couldn't feel any
better.
And I could not feel any better.
The individual who came up more than once
announced his acoustically.
Right?
So the brother is saying to me, how
come they all have this? They they seem
to be, you know, doing well financially. When
you spoke about in the lecture,
that is your provision gets affected when you
sin. Because the messenger salarism said,
When you carry out the sin, you begin
to lose your provision.
It affects you.
I said to him, that's not the only
type of provision because Arzakh is of different
types.
I said
to the brother,
that spiritual contentment, is that something that can
be bought with money, guys?
No.
Right. They may have the money. They may
have nice cars, but spiritually, it's dead.
Malekimuddinari
said,
1 has not been punished
with anything more greater than
a hardened heart.
Look what they're doing, guys. They're drinking themselves
to sleep.
There's a football
lot that we used to watch,
and everyone used to talk about the power
in his shots.
Right?
However, you see him doing well on the
former pitch with him behind closed losses.
Crying him softly.
Right?
What we are chasing, my brothers and my
sisters,
is something that may
well be revised.
Before you end up having the same
consequence.
Spoken a lot about these guys. Let's speak
a little bit about sisters.
Equal rights,
innit? Some of my favorite stats when it
comes to social media is the following.
Right? That was carried out
by a very well known
major
research project into children's lives called the Millennium
Cohort
Study. It concluded with the following. It found
that many girls spend far more time using
social media
than boys,
and, also, that they are much more likely
to display
signs of depression
linked to the interaction on platforms such as
Instagram,
WhatsApp, and Facebook.
This is before TikTok, guys.
This is before TikTok.
I have a malhab when it comes to
TikTok.
I have a malhab. Because know what malhab
is?
A position.
I'll take a sign.
There was a tweet that went around. It
had Elon Musk's name on it.
He said he was going to buy TikTok
just
so he could close it down. But
then I realized it was photoshopped.
But before that, what did I do? I
don't send you that a shukr. I prostrated
to Allah. Thanks Allah.
Because they used to make Duaia Allah send
someone that comes and closes down his app.
By the way, guys, I did not ask
to go viral on TikTok.
I didn't.
Actually, we won against it. Right?
So this study was made, my brothers and
my sisters.
And by the way, I don't even post
on that.
Just in case someone has
he warns against it, but then he's all
his videos are going viral. I did not
put it on there, guys.
TikTok, which is the worst out of all
of these apps I've mentioned.
You know what it concluded with? Almost 40%
of girls who spend more than 5 hours
a day on social media show symptoms of
depression.
Most girls with depression are unhappy with their
appearance, and 2.5
times
more likely than boys to be to be
dissatisfied with their weight.
Half of depressive girls and a quarter of
depressive boys said that they suffer from disrupt
sleep most of the time.
Why are they not pleased with their appearance,
brothers and sisters? Who can tell me?
Why are these girls not pleased with their
appearance?
I'll tell you guys.
Because society glorifies women such as the Kardashians.
They portray them as the ideal women.
This is how a woman should look like.
Even though
Allah made everyone beautiful in their own way.
Right?
You are a beautiful creation of Allah
both men and women.
Right?
Allah made them beautiful and handsome in their
own ways. Does that make sense?
But they made you feel that she needs
to look like this.
And because she doesn't look like that, and
she sees that this type of lady who
looks this particular way is getting all of
the likes and the attention. I mustn't go
I must look like that as well. And
if she can't, she goes into depression mode.
Shati, you guys, it was even more shocking.
In the Emirates,
70%
who tried to get plastic surgery done
70%
of these women who went forth to get
plastic surgery done,
right, was due to social media influence.
Plastic surgery, guys.
Nose, ears,
eyebrow, whatever.
Plastic surgery.
70% was due to what? Social media influence.
What we see online, my brothers and sisters,
is a moment of people's lives.
And some of these celebrities, they get their
pictures, their images, their videos edited
before it's released. Did you guys know that?
Did you know that, guys?
Photoshop. Okay. I I back in the day,
I did a lot of things, guys.
One of them was
I knew how to do Photoshop very well.
Adding the glow,
making this face skinnier,
and the shoulders larger.
I was very good at it.
Right?
And then I went to Yemen, and I
forgot how to use it.
I could have been making the pulses for
the Masjid, but,
you know,
Shaikh Milakam, you could do that.
Allahu Aleem, you could do that.
There was even a time, subhanallah, the cousin,
I went to give a lecture
at Coventry University. While we were driving there,
he said to me
that there was a sister
who sent
her pictures to a brother,
and he tried to use them now to
blackmail her.
Right?
What did he do? He took the top
part of the body and then connected it
to a naked body. You can do it
on Photoshop, guys.
And even now even now, brothers and sisters,
it's even more easier. Right? There are
technological advancements,
right, with video motion and everything.
When he said that, I believed him straight
away because it was so easy to do
being someone who was very good at using
Photoshop.
But who's the victim in all of this?
The one who keeps looking.
He thinks, okay. This is how life should
be.
Right? This is how I need to be.
This is what I need to work towards,
only for it to leave him disappointed.
Because that's the reality of Khadunya.
My brothers and my sisters,
compare this now to what happened to Ibn
Uthaimi at Rahmat Waihali.
Ibnutamia, my brothers and my sisters, was imprisoned
multiple times, not Abutemia.
Ibnutamia
passed away over 700 years ago.
Multiple times, he actually died in prison.
We tend to quote Ibrahim a lot. His
works were magnificent.
Allah, absolutely amazing.
I come across some of his statements that
he uttered over 700 years ago. Allah, he
would be the solution to some of the
problems that we have today. Well, in fact,
a lot of the problems.
Allah
gave him the zakat.
It is as if he's living amongst us
with some of the advices that he's giving.
Anyways, when he was in prison the last
time around,
He finished the Quran 8 times.
And then the 81th time,
the last verse that he uttered was when
Allah said,
They will be granted
gardens
and rivers.
They would have a station.
Right?
With Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
After that, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala took his
soul. After that, Allah
took his soul.
Yes. Right?
He is
in solitary confinement. That's what he call it.
Right? He's inside of solitary confinement.
Right?
However, it's Quran. Quran. Why? Because the Quran
is giving him that peace and that contentment
which cannot be bought with money. Compared to
all of these guys who have spacious homes,
who are filthy rich, who live lavish lifestyles,
Usman
dies in
prison, having recited the Quran 80 times and
an 81th time
This is the same individual
who would say,
What can my enemies do to me?
Alright.
What can my enemies do to me? If
they kill me, I die as a martyr.
If
they exile me,
I'll go travel.
Well, like, traveling has benefits, brothers and sisters.
Right? Sometimes just, you know, contemplating and reflecting
on the scenery.
And if they imprison me
I'll be alone with Allah
To be in solitary confinement,
he is looking at it as a blessing
because of Allah, and I'm gonna read Quran.
It's an opportunity to busy myself with the
book of Allah Subhanahu
wa
ta'ala.
Like a competitor.
Right?
Let me tell you guys about a black
Mufti of Mecca.
The black Mufti of Mecca.
With racism rampant,
It wasn't just the color that was
stacked up against him. Right? The odds that
were stacked up against him.
Altaqn ibn Abba,
student of Abdullah ibn Abbas. Right?
Do you know how his appearance was, guys?
He was a black Abyssinian,
Awar, Khulusi probably.
Aftos,
diagnosed.
Ashal, he was paralyzed.
Aaraj used to live.
We didn't have a wife.
He was from the people of Mecca.
And then he became blind at the end
of his life.
But he was a black Mufti of Mecca.
But you know what raised him guys and
eyes
of
people?
Knowledge.
This man was extremely knowledgeable when he came
to the Quran and acting upon it. You
guys heard of Abdul Abdu'lai ibn Umar
Who is he? A son of who?
Do you know who narrated the most hadith?
Who is number 1?
Abu Hurayrah. Who's number 2?
And Aram,
a Uruashi.
Right?
He would come to Mecca,
and then people will come rushing towards him
to ask questions.
He said,
You want to bring me all of your
issues?
I know you have a Taibimabi rabbah amongst
you. Why you guys coming to me for?
You have him amongst you, go to him.
Sabdulillah ibn Omar, the companion. Atay ibn Berruha
wasn't a companion. He was a Tabir.
Look how Allah
raised this individual, my beloved brothers and sisters.
He studied
against all odds. Today, if someone
was disfigured like this, and this was his
appearance, my brothers and my sisters.
How would society
look at this individual?
They had absolutely no hope. Right?
But he's fulfilled. Right?
My brothers and my sisters,
which is the tafsir that
many might refer back to. It's also been
translated in English.
And there's a piece of advice I'm gonna
give you guys right then, inshallah,
about what we should do.
Because we wanna live with the Quran, guys.
You
open up every other page, you know whose
name you're going to find?
Student of Abdullah ibn Abbas,
who is a scholar of the Quran.
This paralyzed, diagnosed,
limping individual
who didn't have a wife,
but
his name
is mentioned alongside
the statements of Allahu jalafirullah.
His name, brothers and sisters,
is mentioned alongside
the statements of Allah
And that is because my brothers and my
sisters, they spent time learning the book of
Allah.
Right?
The great imam.
Right? Al Imam Abu Hanif who
is a legend.
Just a side benefit.
Whenever someone wronged and oppressed him, he will
send him gifts.
Especially after that American trip, I need to
give out a lot of gifts,
to these feminists,
the Skittles team,
and Liberals.
He will send them what?
Send him gifts.
He said,
I never saw anyone that I met more
virtuous than Atay Nabi Rabihari
Right.
When he passed away, he was the one
that the people were most satisfied with.
The people on the earth were more satisfied
with 1 guy when he passed away, and
that was.
However,
his gatherings would only be attended by 8
or 9 people.
Bab's due to his and due to his
commitment and his discipline and continuation, sometimes, you
know, people might not attend the gatherings, and
we feel like just getting
off. There's no point teaching. Or you don't
want to sit there because you're maybe one
of 4, 5 people. Feels awkward.
It's not a numbers game, guys.
There was once upon a time, guys, why
I would travel 3 hours. You know how
many people attend?
Maybe even 4 hours.
4 or 5 guys are sitting there.
And the shaitan is saying, you might as
well just call it a day.
Traveling all the way for hours
and there's only 4 or 5 people saying
that.
Allah is testing you. Are you going to
continue?
Right.
There's other individuals, my brothers and my sisters,
that I could mention pertaining to
who
are role models to every single one of
us guys. Allah, as I was, raises people
because of the Quran.
Allah raises people due to their
relationship with the book of Allah.
Right?
It is the answer that we are looking
forward to a lot of our problems.
If we just take a couple of verses,
my brothers and my sisters, right? Couple of
verses.
All these multibillionaires
or millionaires,
look how their problems could be solved
so quickly.
Whoever from the male and the female, they
do good deeds.
Right? And they come with iman.
We will give them a happy,
satisfactory life.
Allah
says
in
the
Quran
also
Whoever turns away from my remembrance,
I will give that individual a depressed life.
I will give that individual a depressed life.
You know, my brothers and my sisters, we
spoke a little bit about
and how he
read the Quran 80 times, and in an
80 months time, he passed away.
This individual who left behind so much,
he left behind his legacy. His books are
there for everyone to see, which he didn't
write.
Well, he didn't write a lot of them.
You see today, like the Majmuah, it was
a compilation of letters they used to write.
It is filled with verses from the top
of his head that he would
mention inside of his.
You know what he says?
Because I began to really regret that I
wasted a lot of my life
not spending over the Quran.
That's him, guys.
This is enutemia.
And then he utters this.
Have you guys heard of Sheikh Abdul Athimim?
One of the contemporary
mountains of the deen.
Right? In
Qasim,
they have
a whole bookstore
that just has the books of Sheikh and
Qasim. They print it. They write it up.
They print his books. It's a whole library,
guys.
He even gave a lot of time and
concern to
explaining the book of Allah
This individual who left behind
35 volumes of having explained the Quran, brothers
and sisters,
right,
he says the
following.
I wish
that I explain the whole
Quran. And I wish that Quran was the
first thing that I learned,
right, and the first thing that I taught.
This is why now my brothers and my
sisters, after reading all of this,
whenever I give the lecture, try to
revolve around some verses in the Quran.
That's why most recent times, I decided to
go through Surah Al Hujarat.
Right?
Surat Yousef. We did a whole university tour.
I went past 27
secular university, which some of these blue haired
feminists
tried to shut down,
but they failed.
It was about Surat Yousef.
Surat Yousef melts your heart, guys.
Some scholars would even say there's not a
person who's going through sadness.
That reads sort of youth except that his
sadness will disappear.
You can find out on my YouTube channel
where we took some parts out of it.
We barely even got into it.
But it was a big hit with a
lot of students. Did anyone come to that?
Universities?
Quran, guys. All
I had
He says, it is the complete cure
from all of the different ailments and sicknesses,
whether they are the sicknesses of the heart
or the sicknesses of the body.
Right?
The sicknesses of the dunya, likewise, the hiraq.
It is the Quran.
Right?
And,
you know, as Imam alaihi
says this
you know, I I I tried to just
stand over this and give it some thought,
guys. You know?
How this even could come to someone's mind?
He said,
No matter how much you try
with the doctors,
and no matter how much they try to
remove the sicknesses inside of your heart,
you'll never be able to find anything like
the Quran.
You'll never be able to find anything like
the Quran.
Right?
You know, was in hospital at the end
of his life.
You know what will make him happy?
Like, he's on his deathbed, guys. Right?
He's sick and he's ill,
but he still wants to give his class.
He still wants to teach.
So they connected while he was teaching in
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's masjid, right?
He used to teach there. They connected the
mic all the way to the hospital.
This is what makes you happy.
Allah, when you've tasted the sweetness of
a certain something, my brothers and my sisters,
like the Quran,
like knowledge, you will find a brother who
barely has anything, guys.
He's living in a Madinah.
840 riyals is how much the allowance is.
840 riyals. How much is that in pounds,
guys?
Less than £200.
But he is so content to that.
He's in dreamland.
Right? He is in dreamland. That is because
he has that contentment.
Money can't buy it. He has the Quran.
You'll see him walking around.
Just recite.
Gives him that.
That feeds the mind,
nourishes the soul.
Right?
Safeguards your body
and guarantees you happiness more than
More than constantly looking in the book of
Allah.
Right? Sheikh Usamtini also says,
When somebody now reads the Quran and he
contemplates,
he reflects on the book of Allah, It
is from the greatest causes that prevent him
from sins.
Right? Especially in today's day and age, brothers
and sisters, but you have the Quran that
you are what?
Carrying inside of your heart.
You become blessed wherever you go, guys.
Right?
You look at my brothers and my sisters,
the best month of the year is which
month?
Ramadan. Why? Because the Quran came down in
its right.
The best night of the is
a Khadar. Because what? He doesn't
know.
The greatest angel,
Jibril.
Great prophet.
Quran? The best from amongst you is the
one who learns the Quran and teaches
Allah
will bless your life, brothers and sisters. Whether
maybe financially.
In whatever way it might be, if you
give time to the book of Allah
Right?
Absher. To conclude, my brothers and my sisters.
To conclude
to conclude,
we now need
practical ways that we could actually, what,
live with the book of Allah.
Practicals.
My brothers and my sisters,
put your hand up if you can't find
a £130.
Most of you guys can find a 100
and
brothers to help you out.
The sweetest £130,
my brothers and my sisters, that you will
ever spend
is when you buy
has been abridged.
The which is in English. I don't like
English books, guys. I don't.
However,
it was so sweet reading that.
I don't know. Maybe because it was the
interpretation of the Quran.
It tasted very sweetly.
Right?
But, generally speaking, I don't like reading English
books.
I really don't.
Guys, the way it's been written, it's not
even old fashioned English.
Right?
There was a very well known YouTuber
that I recommended this to when I went
to
America.
I wanna read out to you guys what
he said.
Allah
inspired
my heart last night, brother.
I started from volume 1, in wallahi, I've
learned so much about Surfatihari.
Like, its value has shot up even more,
alhamdulillah.
Inshallah, my intentions are to learn more
and read more every night.
I'll shoot over questions for sure, bro.
For being available for help.
And he asked, how did Ohio go?
Security guard was loading his gun while I
was giving the lecture
at the back.
And he's going around on TikTok.
That's how he went.
Brothers and sisters. I'm not saying to you
guys,
you take the tafsir, and then you start
doing interpretation of the Quran, calm down.
That's extremely, extremely dangerous.
You take this, brothers and sisters,
and you treat
it personally.
What's that mean?
When we hear,
brothers and sisters,
all you who believe,
who is being addressed here?
Abdullah ibn Surud was saying,
if you hear,
which we hear a lot in the Quran,
all you who believe.
Make sure you lend your because
you are about to hear something extremely important,
and you're about to be warned from something
that is very severe.
Right?
Sometimes we hear the khateep giving a kudah,
and we think, oh, yeah. You're speaking about
my friend.
Oh, he's speaking about that guy that I've
seen walking out of the area, and he
was doing this.
I could take it personally.
Speaking about me. I need to do something
about myself.
I need to better myself.
Does that make sense brothers and sisters?
When we look at the Quran,
right,
in a way that we are being addressed,
Wallahi, we will
have a completely different attitude to the reminders
that we are giving.
And
this is the case with everybody here who
has attended.
Right?
Who is here to better himself.
Who came here because they know
that I need to do something about myself
especially before the month of Ramadan.
Right?
Don't wait till Ramadan guys. Early in Advent
and Islamic santa, I was telling
them, there are 2 kinds of people. There's
a person, my brothers and my sisters, who
uses the month of Ramadan
as a stepping stone to get better.
It is extremely wrong for you to refer
to him as a Ramadan Muslim.
A sister what starts wearing hijab in a
month of Ramadan, they're saying Ramadan Muslim.
Oh, look at her. She doesn't wear hijab.
Barbie started wearing hijab.
Fina Allah
Or a brother now started practicing in the
month of Ramadan. Of course, why not? The
scene has been set, right?
The doors of Jannah have been swung open,
and the doors of hellfire have been slammed
shut. And the shayateen are locked up. It's
more easier to do well.
Right?
However, some of us, we leave it till
the beginning of Ramadan, and by the time
we get into gear, it's already too late.
Because it takes time guys to sometimes adapt.
Does that make sense?
We have to do it right now, brothers
and sisters.
Right? This tafsir would really, really help put
you in the right direction.
Number 2, my brothers and my sisters.
A scholar was asked,
how are the salif?
When I say salif, I'm referring to the
3 golden generations.
Not people who are breathing today.
How were they when it came to the
Quran?
You know his response was?
How you guys are with your phones?
How you guys are today with your phones?
Right? Just 24 hours on Snapchat.
I like this. Gets posted on Twitter.
Right?
Just literally everything that comes to mind, put
it out on Twitter.
The app, if you want to get canceled,
is that one.
All the feminists are.
Me and them having a great time on
on Twitter.
Because
this phone
is a problem.
I told our brothers
and sisters in Edmonton Islamic Center.
Right?
We have
to learn to identify the sin. We have
to stop being in denial, guys.
Write down. Get a pen and paper, I
told them, and I want you guys to
do the same tonight. Get a pen and
paper. What is it that's causing me to
fall into sins? I'll guarantee you a lot
of that which is happening with us in
our personal lives is because of the phone.
Right?
It might well be time to refer back
to the trap phone guys.
A
lot of guys are being serious.
You know, the brick phones that we used
to have back in the day with snake?
That one.
To detox.
We need a detox
because we've become so addicted to it.
If you wanna know whether you're an addict
or not, leave your phone at home and
then see whether you start fidgeting or not.
The moment you go outside
and you stop behaving like a knee.
Why you guys laughing?
Why you guys laughing? Guys.
There's
no Wi Fi. It's like it's the end
of the world.
A constant need, I need to post everything
about my life.
And I remember many, many years ago when
social media started emerging,
I started making jokes about something that I
came across. A guy goes in the toilet.
He goes, I'm going in the toilet. He
comes out, I've just left.
It's the life of some people. Right? It
might not necessarily be toilet related, but everything
he's doing is writing it down.
Sahib.
Guys,
20 days you may need to detox
before the month of Ramadan destroys,
before your phone destroys the month of Ramadan,
guys. Yeah.
Right?
The amount we spend holding our phones, let's
do that with the mus'af.
Shaitan might say to an addict I'm specifically
saying an addict.
That you could use your phone for the
Quran.
But then you get the snap notification,
the Instagram notification,
the WhatsApp notification. And by the way guys,
if you want to move away from this
addiction, take off all your notifications.
And then you can just while you're reading
Quran, maybe just one page, you're getting hundreds
of notification. You've already come back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth.
Can we live without our phones, guys, without
Shabbat?
We can.
Stop telling yourself that it's a must, and
you can't live without it. You are your
first enemy
when you behave like that.
Right?
Does that make sense?
There's a lot of points that can be
mentioned, but I've run out of time. I'm
gonna quickly mention this.
Read Quran, my brothers and my sisters, in
whatever
situation or condition you are in.
Abdullah Musa
will say,
Whoever is pleased
that Allah
loves him.
Or should I say,
Whoever is pleased that
he becomes someone that loves Allah and his
messengers
Let him read while looking at the
He said about
Whenever he would ride,
he would read Quran a lot. You're in
your car, guys, or you're driving a bike.
Is it difficult to keep your tongue moist
of the Quran?
Is it difficult, guys?
Everyone here has memorized It
starts little and then it creases and becomes
more and more.
Okay. Time for that. Can I have 1
minute, Shah?
Sorry, Shah. No. It's all. Your
He would read Surat Al Kahf, which you
read on Fridays. Right?
On his way while he was walking to
the Masjid.
Alright.
And then you have also listening, brothers and
sisters.
Whoever listens to a verse, it becomes a
north for him on the day of resurrection.
It becomes a north for him on the
day of resurrection.
May Allah
bless every single one of you
and clean our hearts and purify it from
music.
Right? You have the Quran that will enlighten
your heart, and you have the music that
does the complete opposite. Abdullah ibn Said,
The hina, the music, it causes hypocrisy to
grow in your heart.
Right? And then he talks about the person,
my brothers and my sisters, who struggles to
recite the book of Allah
He struggles.
He has issues.
It has tied him down.
Like a friend of mine, who is from
one of the European countries, I begged him
come to the Haram.
He would promise me every day I'm gonna
come.
But then he's tied in his
in his room.
He would say something is stopping me from
leaving the room.
And that was the sin, his brothers and
sisters, because later on, he admitted to me.
When he was in the Medina, they had
a girlfriend back home.
You know?
Also, it affects your salah, brothers and sisters.
He says, you
will barely find someone who listens to music
except that he's lazy when it comes to
the salah. He prays quickly.
Right?
That's his state.
This is what the music does to an
individual.
My brothers and my sisters. I just wanna
say a big thanks to our,
our
who are always so kind to facilitate this
program in this very beautiful masjid.
I told the brothers as we were driving
in.
Ilfed is one thing. When you get into
the area, the Masjid is another.
They were like, are we still in London?
They've there's horses.
Allah is always beautiful coming here. It's really,
really nice.
May Allah bless you all. Right? And benefit
from your masha'i and the elders that you
guys have here.
Right? And if we don't see each other,
we'll see each other in Jannah.
I mean,
again, brothers, lovely
ancestors to see
on a Sunday afternoon
while West Ham was playing.
I think you guys all support them.