Beyond Ramadan – What we need to do to be well
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The importance of acceptance and learning to support oneself and build a foundation for Islam is emphasized. The speaker emphasizes the need for evidence, praying outside of the Masajid, and providing basic information and choice of fields to achieve their goals. The importance of education, mentorship, and advocacy for individuals and groups within society is also emphasized. The speaker stresses the need for a way to support individuals and build a foundation for Islam, and the importance of working towards a narrative that is not racist or evil.AI Generated Transcript ©
He says, subhanahu wa ta'ala, say, it's
through the bounty of Allah and the compassion
and mercy of Allah. Through that, may they
find joy. It is better than all that
they possess that they will possess in their
lives.
Now if it's meant as a dua, then
I'm okay with it. If it's meant as
a statement, then it's false
because we are not well,
and that's fine. But if it's meant as
a statement,
I don't think it's I don't think it's
correct if it's a statement because we are
not well.
We are very, very unwell as an ummah
and as a community. We are unwell. We
have not been well for quite some time.
And unfortunately, as the years progress, we become
less and less well.
Nasal Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
But the re but the reality is that
these last 6 months
have been probably the the least 12 months
of our of our of our lives at
least in the last 10 years or or
so.
And after Ramadan, it's really worth taking a
moment
and reflecting and sometimes I feel that the
khutbah after Ramadan or the timing after Ramadan
is probably the most important for us as
an ummah in general.
Because we are offered the opportunity
to reflect and to contemplate and to make
some decisions.
Even Masood
would walk out of his house after Ramadan
and he would say,
He will walk on and say, where is
the one who is accepted so that we
may congratulate him?
And where is the one who has been
deprived and rejected so that we may offer
our condolences? Oh, the one who is accepted,
may Allah grant you
the blessing of the acceptance that you have.
And, oh, the one who is rejected
and is deprived, may Allah
grant you a substitution alternative for the that
you're in.
Hassan al Basri, Muhammadullah alaihi, used to say,
Every day that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
not being disobeyed in in your life is
a Eid. And everyday that you focus on
Allah
satisfaction
on your obedience to Allah
and fulfilling
your purpose in the eyes of Allah
is for you a day of aid, a
day of celebration.
And what we do celebrate during these days
of Eid is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's bounty
upon us that we were able to get
through this holy month of Ramadan.
And we celebrate that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
granted us the strength to fast it and
to pray within it, and they granted us
the ability to come to the masajid and
to recite his his book
and to draw ourselves closer to him. So
that's what we celebrate. We celebrate our the
the ability to do that and what it's
going to mean for us moving forward afterwards,
which is what I want this I need
to discuss with you throughout,
this hot tuba.
I brought this up around a year ago
and I'll bring it up again today.
I don't see that there is innate value
in masajid being full. I know that sounds
really weird but I don't see it.
I know that Allah
calls his servants into his homes throughout the
month of Ramadan and masajid get full.
But my true belief is that if that
does not translate
into acts of worship afterwards, if it does
not translate into something else, it's almost as
if it is evidence that those acts of
worship were not accepted.
We'll never know for sure until we meet
Allah whether anything we did was accepted or
not. And by the way, everything that you
do has that possibility. May Allah subhanahu wa'ala
accept our deeds say I'm say I'm in.
We have no we have no evidence really.
We have no proof. No. We don't have
solid proof ever that your deeds are accepted
or not. None of them. Not one of
them. There's not one deed that you'll do
in the entirety of your life where you
could swear that's that it is accepted or
not accepted.
Period.
And since that's the case, as human beings,
as Muslims, we continue to strive until the
last moment because we don't know. Maybe everything
we did before was just rejected for reasons
that are valid for lack of sincerity and
lack of clarity and lack of commitment and
lack of grit and lack of love and
lack
and lack of humbleness and humility, and the
list goes on and on.
So we don't know. But the scholars have
talked about evidence, not proof. Evidence, meaning signs
that maybe the deeds are accepted. Talk about
signs and this is not something I'm making
up because the the scholars, they have almost
consensus on this issue. Their consensus on the
signs of acceptance
is the ability to continue
afterwards.
That is this one of the the main
signs of consensus of acceptance in the eyes
of scholars is that you're able to take
what you did and continue it or translate
it into something that is practical, that is
pragmatic, that is effective in people's lives, that
affects people's
that affects your lifestyle,
the change in your in your decision making
process, in your choices, in in in the
direction of your life.
So So when I talk about not seeing
innate value and message at full, meaning I
wait until see afterwards. If that translates afterwards
into people actually changing the way they live
their lives, I mean, they actually have direction
now.
They see what is valuable in this world
and they're moving towards it. They are trying
to satisfy Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in ways
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has commanded them
to satisfy him.
They're living for the for for the well-being
and the best interest of their nation, of
their Ummah, they're trying to serve Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala through serving others, then yes. I
think that the these these messiah
being full meant something. But if they didn't
I mean, if you go back to the
to exactly the way we we we were
before,
then I don't know. I think that maybe
that's a sign of the opposite.
Then that is to a certain degree a
sign of the opposite
that this didn't do anything. It didn't mean
anything.
Think about it. How many Masjid are there
in the Muslim world? Yeah, you do you
realize that most of these Masjid throughout, Yani,
the last 10 nights of rahulah, we're we're
packed.
It's nothing impressive about that. All messaged will
fill up. People will come to messaged everywhere.
But then what? What's the point? So I'm
a said before, so the imam prayed and
there was,
50 lions behind him. And people made dua
and everyone
was crying.
And then what?
If that's where it ends, then it just
didn't even it didn't even pick up.
If that's where it ends, then I'm not
sure that these deeds have made it to
the first guy, let alone make it to
Allah altogether.
I don't know that these deeds are even
making it to the first guy to begin
with. I don't know because Allah
he doesn't accept people
who compartmentalize
the deen.
And He doesn't accept someone who takes one
part of the deen, but the other part
doesn't care about. Yeah. I'll take the rituals.
I'll pray. But no. When it comes to
actual actual standing by righteousness or advocating, you
know, I've got student too much. It's all
I'll pray throughout I'll I'll fast and pray
throughout Ramadan. But I was telling Ramadan, no,
I don't do no. It doesn't work that
way. The the Islam does not work. It
doesn't function that way.
Not for the individual and for sure and
definitely not for the Ummah and not collectively.
In order for us to have some hope
of Allah accepting our
Ramadan
to to have value for us, we have
to make sure that after Ramadan, we are
able to use that fuel to allow us
to move forward. That's how salah and Ibad
has always been seen in Islam. It's been
seen as the fuel that you use to
continue to carry this message forward.
Oh, you were told that at the beginning
of his dua, pray all night. Half of
it if you can't do all night, maybe
a bit more, a bit less, But you
have to pray. Read the Quran and invocate
Allah and make dua.
Why? You're
gonna be carrying a heavy burden of a
message.
At night,
you have that part of opportunity to stand
and speak to me.
Why? Because during the day, it's a long
swim.
You have a lot of work to do
throughout the day, so you need your prayer.
You need that connection. Ramadan
serves as our fuel. It connects you to
Allah, to the almighty subhanahu wa ta'ala. It
connects you to Allah. When you're connected to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you're more likely to
be able to carry his message and do
the work throughout the day that happens outside
of the doors of Masajid.
The work that happens outside of the Masajid
where the actual work happens. Here I preach
to the choir. Here I speak to you're
Muslim, you listen to you accept what I'm
saying because it's Islam. I'm I'm I'm explaining
Islam to you and you already know it.
The real work happens outside.
That's where Islam is practiced. That's where Islam
is preached. That's where Islam is advocated. That's
where people actually carry Islam. Here in the
Masjid, you're here to This is Masjid, a
launching pads.
Ramadan is a launching pad.
It's where you go and you get yourself
trained and and and and and you support
yourself with your community and you feel empowered,
you feel energized so you can take all
of that, you can go and you can
carry Islam outside.
If it ends there,
it's it's like you're going for it's it's
like taking a training course and then
throwing the surface. Why? Taking a training course
some in something and never using it ever
again.
People do that all the time. It's a
complete waste of time.
Ramadan serves as that launching pad. That's what
we have to see it as. And after
8, after Ramadan is over, we had to
take a moment and think about these things.
Of how are we going to make sure
that this month is going to be accepted
for us. Allow this month to do for
you what it's supposed to do. Allow it
to influence your decisions and your choices and
the way you live your life moving forward.
We are we don't exist in silos in
this world and we definitely don't exist as
individuals as in the eyes of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. We're part of a Jama'ah. Whether
you like it or not, you're a part
of an ummah.
You're a part of ummah till Islam, the
ummah of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
you're a part of that ummah. You belong
to this group for better or for worse.
For better or for worse, you're a part
of this group. You may like it, you
may not. It doesn't make a difference. You're
still a part of the group.
This group either sails together or it sinks
together.
And that has to be the mentality that
you carry in your head and in your
heart
that you will live for it, that this
is the cause that is worth living for,
that all that you do is for that.
And without that concept in your mind, I
don't know. I don't know what exactly the
value of of the acts of worship and
rituals are. I I really don't.
Last year, I pointed out 5 things
that I thought were the priorities of of
of this Muslim community in the West.
I've actually come more recently to see that
it's just one thing
and the rest just serve it.
There's really just one thing and the rest
are just there to to help help it
along. I talked about education.
I talked about mentorship.
I talked about outreach. I talked about
financial centralization. I talked about advocacy. These are
the 5 things I talked about.
An uneducated
will do nothing. A community that's uneducated won't
go anywhere. It has to be academically and
Islamically properly educated. They have to know their
DNA. They have to know what they're doing
as well. They have to have careers, and
they have to be able to yeah. They
have to have good jobs and have good
careers and have to understand the world and
and have influence in academics and influence in
how the world thinks and understands and also
have to know their deen so that they
know how to speak in the name of
their deen.
And we have to make sure that we
offer that education to individuals and groups within
our society, old and young. It doesn't make
a difference. Man and woman, old and young,
everyone should be educated. Mentorship, we have to
make sure that the baton is handed down.
That if you carry the the the cause
of your omen the omen in your heart
that the next generation does as well. It
doesn't die with you, it doesn't end with
you. If it ends with you then we
we there's no point of any of this.
It has to be handed down. That requires
personal relationship building capacity.
That requires you actually taking time and investing
in people who are younger than you.
Investing in the younger generation and putting up
with with everything that comes with that because
that is never easy. It's never been easy.
It never will be easy. It's always difficult.
It's always a headache. It always takes time,
but it's it's it's required and it's obligatory
upon us to do that. We have to
perform proper outreach. Outreach means not just out
reaching out to non Muslims to to bring
Dawah to them, but also to our own
society counterparts.
Muslims who don't find their place in the
Masjid. Muslim aren't comfortable coming here for whatever
reason. Muslim didn't grow up in Masjid. It
wasn't a part of their upbringing. It wasn't
a part of their culture. But they're Muslim
all the same. We need to out we
need to reach out to them to see
how it is we're going to serve them
and serve their children.
Wealth has to be centralized.
We have to to when we make big
decisions regarding money, it has to be something
that is in the best interest of the
collective, not the best interest of 1 group
or a few a few elitists to have
ideas that they want to move through. No.
It has to be the the interest of
the of the whole group because we only
have the resource of wealth is something that
is not again, infinite. It's finite. You have
to make sure that you operate it properly.
There has to be for the any community,
and we have to have a way to
actually support those who want to get married
and buy homes and start businesses or else
how is it that we're going to empower
our own community? And finally advocacy.
And if your brothers and sisters asked you
for nusra, for an advocacy,
then you offer it unless they're asking it
against people whom you have a covenant with.
In that case Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sees
all.
The disbelievers, your enemies will continue to advocate
for one another and they will stand by
one another and they will have alliances within
each other. If you do not,
This is regarding
If you do not offer them the advocacy
that they are requesting and that they deserve
from you, then will occur and great corruption
on earth will occur.
If you are a if you are requested
to offer your advocacy and your nusla to
those who deserve it from you and you
refuse to do it, then fitna tul falard.
That on earth, there will be a fitna.
Wafasadun kabiran, great corruption.
This is the end of Surah Al Anfal.
I talked about this verse specifically a number
of months ago.
But this is what he's teaching us Those
are the 5 these are the 5
fields that I think our community here in
the west should be prioritizing. Now I could
be wrong, but I talked about this a
year ago, and I only became more convinced
of these 5 because I I reviewed them.
I reassessed. I met with people. I talked
about what could be changed. What can we
remove? What should we add to these?
I really didn't find anything else outside of
them that is required from us as Muslims
living here in the West.
In attempt to try and bring that
to full circle,
I have put up a QR code. Within
this QR code, you'll be able to put
in some basic information and a choice of
1 or 2 of these fields that you're
interested in. I think it's time we put,
you know,
put ourselves to the challenge. If you truly
believe in what I've been talking about, if
this is make if this makes sense to
you, if you believe that Islam is beyond
just rituals,
Islam is not just salaam, siyam, and zakah,
as important as those things are in Islam
for sure. No one Aqdil would say otherwise.
But if you believe Islam is beyond that,
that there's more to Islam than that, that
as Muslims we are required to offer more
than that, then let's see what it is
that people can do.
You get to quickly put in information and
then choose something and then we have a
list. Within that list, once we have a
list of people who are interested in a
certain field, we will start organizing meetings. In
those meetings, we will talk about this specific
field, and how you would like to be
involved, and how to organize the efforts so
we actually get something done in a way
that is beneficial to the community at large,
not to the peep not just to the
people who are congregants and dismissed it or
within this area of the city.
I have come to the conclusion
that the one goal of our existence
is is advocacy.
Everything is here for advocacy. We carry Farbul
Kifaya on behalf of the Ummah. We carry
this communal obligation on behalf of Ummah Muhammad
alayhi salatu wa sallam to speak on behalf
of those who cannot speak, to be the
voice of the ones who have no voice.
Because if you grew up somewhere in the
Middle East, you know
that certain things can you can't there there's
limits to how what you can do. There
are limits and the governments there are making
sure that slowly, the
the the the feeling, the identity of being
Muslim is being pulled out just with time.
Just slowly being removed until almost nothing is
left of it. And the Muslims in the
Middle East don't want them. Most human beings
don't accept. Most Muslims in their hearts, even
if they're lacking basic practice, even if they're
struggling with the basics, they still deep inside
would love to see Islam be in a
better situation. They would don't want to see
Islam. They wanna see oppression. They would love
Islam to be practiced properly and for ethics
to to resurface again. We know this because
we know the people.
But they don't have a voice, and they
don't have anyone to advocate for them. And
you and I exist here, and we have
that right. We have that And because we
have that right, we have that responsibility.
And we carry this as a communal obligation,
as a fardqifaya.
To advocate on behalf of those who have
no one to advocate for them, to be
the voice of those who have no who
who cannot say what they want to say,
That you you and I have to do
that for them. This is our I don't
see any other purpose of us existing here,
and I've been taught them lately this for
10 years.
For 10 years. I never left Syria, by
the way. I was born in Richmond Hill.
I was born in Toronto. I never had
I I left I I lived in Syria
per I mean, by by choice.
I studied there by choice. I stayed in
the university there by choice. I got married
and stayed there by choice. I did not
have to.
But I chose because I could not, in
my mind, figure out why would I come
here. Why would I leave my country and
come here? No offense to anyone here. I
didn't know why I would come here though.
Why would I leave and come to this
country? I didn't see what what purpose could
that serve. My people are there. The ummah
is there. The need for service is there.
So why would you get up and leave?
I was kicked out. I had no choice.
I had to leave or die. So I
left. So now that I'm here, like, why
what am I gonna stay here to do?
What's the purpose? Just to live. Just to
eat and drink. I don't think that's a
very that's
not a high function.
Sian makes you rethink all that. Sian's here.
We'll hold back your food and drink. If
that's all you're living for us, hold it
back in a bit. Maybe take away that
distraction for you for a minute. See if
you can think something bigger. See if you
can zoom out and take a step back
and think again.
There has to be a purpose for our
existence here. I know that's hard to accept,
especially if you're born here. I was born
here too. So you lose that argument.
Being born in a place does not mean
that you don't need a purpose to live
there. No. You need a purpose. Living in
the Middle East, you needed a purpose to
live there. If you I was if you
were born in the Middle East, you lived
there, you had to have a you had
to have a purpose wherever you are. This
is not just for people who are born
here. But when you're here, I find that
people don't take the time to think about
what purpose they serve. They don't.
But you all at the loose end, you
always think, where's my purpose?
Like, well, how do I achieve this idea
that I'm a Khalifa, that I'm a Abd,
that I'm here to serve Allah subhanahu wa'ala.
How do I achieve that? And people living
here, advocacy is what we have to do.
We have to be that voice. And that's
why we have to focus on education
because advocates have to be well informed.
Because advocates have to be well informed. They've
had to be confident in who they are.
And we have to have mentorship because people
do not advocacy is an art. It takes
time. You have to teach it. It has
to be learned through observation. You have to
strengthen people and and and walk them down
this path of learning how to do it.
So you need mentorship. And you need to
outreach because the more people advocate, the more
likely it is that we get what we
want.
More people enter Islam, more Muslims from far
away find their way back to Allah, the
more people who will advocate.
And the more wealth you have to use
for advocacy
as we all know at this point clearly.
We know this all all along, but now
it's it is it is shamefully clear that
money is what speaks. It's not rights.
It's not human rights. It's not blood. It's
there's nothing. It's money. You have money. Everyone
will listen to you and your narrative becomes
meaningful. Your narrative Everyone feels sorry for you.
All of the crocodile tears fall upon the
faces of the lying politicians, the corrupt politicians
of the world, if you have money to
put in their pockets. Otherwise, your blood means
nothing. There's no problem. 30, 30, 33, 35,000.
No. It doesn't matter. Like, it doesn't matter
how many children are burnt and killed and
buried on the rubble and died and lose
their parents. No. Because you don't have money.
But if you had money, suddenly suddenly it
matters. Oh, you have money. Then, well, of
course, your your narrative means a lot, and
you'll stand up in front of people and
they'll be and and imagine, Wallahi, imagine if
Muslims were doing a fraction
of of what the state is doing. A
fraction of what they were doing. Wallahi, a
fraction, not even one thing. Well, only one
thing was enough for for for people to
start talking about everyone
That
double standard unfortunately has nothing to do with
concepts, has nothing to do with with with
the principle, has everything to do with with
money.
We are not the poor community.
We're not poor in anything. We have numbers,
and we have youth, and we have expertise,
and experience, and skill sets. We lack a
little bit of willpower in organization.
A little bit okay. We lack a lot
of it of willpower on organization and leadership.
I'll I'll take that back and we lack
a lot of it. We lack a lot
of organization and willpower. Unfortunately unfortunately
unfortunately, we're still stuck with small
agenda driven
goals. We're still living in our own little
silos. It's still we we're still tunnel visioned
when we're trying to do things. We're not
seeing the bigger picture of what this Ummah
actually needs. Unfortunately,
I don't know until when that's going to
continue to be the case, but it has
to change. All of these things, in my
opinion,
education and mentorship and outreach and wealth will
serve advocacy.
He does not fail to advocate for his
right.
No person will advocate for the rights of
someone else who is being oppressed,
whose wealth and integrity and rights are being
taken away except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will
make sure that in the moment where you
want Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's advocacy and strength
and power, he will offer it to you.
And no one will fail to offer someone
who is being oppressed
advocacy and strength and power and alliance when
they need it except Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will wait until you're in a position where
you need someone to stand by you and
then he will let you down.
As you let others down.
And his back will be turned on you
and he'll forget you just like you turned
your back
and forgot.
As you were given your our signs, we
sent our signs. What's happening right now is
one of the most glaring signs that we've
ever seen.
One of the most glaring signs of God
you've ever seen what's happening in Gaza today.
And what's been happening in the Muslim world
for the last 3 decades.
It's a sign that is so glaring and
so it's it's blinding.
It's blind it's worse than eclipse.
Everyone got
excited to stare at,
2,
objects
in the terrestrial coming in front of each
other.
What what about what's been staring us in
the been blindingly staring us in the face
for the last 30 years? All of this
zwolim that's been occurring, and the lack of
care,
and the lack of of of commitment and
lack of grit for it all. What about
that?
You think that
think a star and a and a moon
sitting in front of each other just
is more impressive to you than than a
child that's eating grass or a mother who's
mourning her baby or a father who's lost
everything.
There's no there's no comparison.
That is God screaming at you. That is
Allah
yelling at you saying wake up.
You need to wake up. You have to
get up.
You have to start living differently. You can't
afford to live like this. You can't. We
can't. We can't afford to live like this
anymore.
Ramadan has to be a point where we
we make a decision
and we turn our lives around. Let Ramadan
do that for you. So that insha'Allah your
your Ibad, all the time you spent will
be accepted.
So it'll be accepted insha'Allah ta'ala because you
want you want to be accepted. Don't don't
we want acceptance?
Anyone here that is is sure and and
and confident about their acceptance?
You're confident that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accepted.
How do you know?
That confidence on its own is arrogance because
you have no you're you're stating something you
have no knowledge of. I want to be
accepted. I know you do too. And if
you want that to be the case, then
we have to start making some decisions here.
And it's not just about feeling masayed. It's
about actually doing the work. The work happens
actually outside of Masayed. This is where you
come when you're tired.
When you're out there fighting and you're working,
you're speaking and and you're defeated
and and you've been let down and you're
tired, you come here. You come here and
your heart finds the solace that it's looking
for. It finds that serenity, finds that peace.
When you're out there, you're trying, you're pushing,
and it's frustrating, and there's one challenge after
the other, and you've fallen down, and you've
slammed your face on the concrete meat a
100 times, and you feel broken, you come
to the masjid, and you find your heart
in the Masjid, you find those who stand
by you and support you and aid you
and strengthen you. That's what these places are
for.
That's what these places are for. That's what
he used them for Alayhi Salatu Wa Salam.
The Ali when he built the message that
you always come here, we come, we regroup,
we regroup here,
we debrief here, we become the member, we
remind ourselves of why we're doing it. We
say,
For you, we will live for you, we'll
die for you. Everything we have is from
you. You take what you want, you leave
what you want, then we're happy with it.
Just allow us to do something that is
in service of you that will make you
satisfied.
That's all we do. And we come back
and then we go and work outside.
Take a moment. Scan it. Put your name.
Let's see if we can do something. I
know this has been tried before probably many
times. Maybe it didn't work out for whatever
reason. This now but it's still worth trying.
Getting people's
energy
and whatever it is that they're interested in
doing in the service of their ummah. So
that when you meet Allah, they said I
tried. I was good at, I can't do
a I have education, mentorship. That's all I
can do. I don't understand money.
Outreach is outside of the Masjid. I'm I'm
stuck inside here. And advocacy, I don't have
that.
I I don't have the skill set for
that. You need someone who is much more
cool headed to speak and and do these
things. Figure out what you're good at. Wait.
What can you do? What what are you
interested in? Sign up, do something. Work with
your group, work with your community, work in
to strengthen it. That was that's my message
for you this week inshaAllah ta'ala, to try
and and and move this forward so that
we actually have something to to to share
and talk about. Maybe we could you'll be
well, I a little bit of of, just
a few accomplishments for a for a community
can can go a long way in terms
of morale. I feel like our problem as
Muslims is that we haven't really accomplished anything
that we can be proud of.
Right? So we have all the masjid. No
one's no one's see, no one's very,
Yani, proud of masjid.
And and for good reason, because people like,
yeah, so what? So the new masjid.
Deep inside, we all know there's nothing we
can't be proud of that. There's nothing there.
It's just a new space. You spot a
space, you put a sujid, and you have
a guy standing up front yelling at people.
It's it's it doesn't mean anything. What you
want where show me some actual work. Yeah.
You're in a Quran program. They were in
Quran programs everywhere. They were in Quran programs
as we speak in Gaza. As they're being
bombed. They they they everyone does that. Show
me something else. And now that we see
all of what's happening in the world, we
know that that's something else has to be
in the field of advocacy, has to be
in the field in getting our rights
and and and raising our voice and pushing
back against a narrative that is evil, that
is racist, that is disrespectful,
that is double standard.
That is that's what that's what will bring
back some morale for us. You want to
feel that you want something for your children
to look up for look look forward to
look back at and feel good about, then
let's just do some work. Let's actually achieve
something for this nation. Let's achieve something for
our community. Let's say that we have strength.
We have unity. We have some work. We're
we're accomplishing these. We're pushing a narrative forward,
and then people start feeling feeling better about
it all. And once people start feeling better
about it, they'll they'll work harder.
And that's where I think we should, you
know, spend our time.
Think every day about the millions of people
who made du'a this Ramadan.
And remember, Allah subhanahu wa'ala only accepts du'a
from those who are sincere and focused. He
only accepts du'a from those who are sincere
and focused.
He
He only accepts dua from those who are
focused and sincere. He doesn't accept the dua
from a heart that is distracted and far
away. No, no. You have to be living
the life. You have to live a life
that reflects that which you are asking for
and that which you want from him, subhanahu
to you.
to you.