Adnan Rajeh – Building Adherence to Righteousness

Adnan Rajeh

JUMMAH PRAYER

Share Page

AI: Summary ©

The importance of staying until the end of the year to achieve goals and avoid punishment is emphasized. The need to be in the right place at the right time and not drinking from sunrise is also emphasized. The importance of praising praised Muslims and not acknowledging their behavior is emphasized. The importance of adherence to praised Islam is emphasized, and a program is being distributed to help Muslims improve their chances of achieving goals. The segment ends with a brief advertisement for a social media campaign.

AI: Summary ©

00:00:00 --> 00:00:02
			Long luck long luck
		
00:00:06 --> 00:00:09
			along who UK voting
		
00:00:22 --> 00:00:23
			shadow
		
00:00:25 --> 00:00:28
			her in love long
		
00:00:31 --> 00:00:32
			shadow
		
00:00:34 --> 00:00:41
			ina in all
		
00:00:45 --> 00:00:50
			shadow and more hand was
		
00:00:51 --> 00:00:53
			more
		
00:00:56 --> 00:00:59
			shadow and
		
00:01:00 --> 00:01:01
			muddle was
		
00:01:03 --> 00:01:06
			all
		
00:01:09 --> 00:01:10
			hi
		
00:01:16 --> 00:01:17
			hi
		
00:01:24 --> 00:01:25
			hi
		
00:01:31 --> 00:01:33
			I have
		
00:01:38 --> 00:01:46
			a lot more work or work
		
00:01:50 --> 00:01:54
			ina mall
		
00:02:07 --> 00:02:09
			hamdu Lillahi wa hitam Al Hamdulillah
		
00:02:12 --> 00:02:18
			Al Hamdulillah enough men who want to study you know who want to study he want to still feel who
want to stone Slidell
		
00:02:20 --> 00:02:47
			when I will be learning in short all the fusina women say get to Lena. Miyagi learning further
mobila Komainu glial Verlander je de la Hui Walia Murshida wash Allah, Allah illallah wa de hula
Sharika Isla Hanwha Eden ahead on some other land yet defeat for herberton What what are the well
I'm Nicola who Khufu one
		
00:02:49 --> 00:03:18
			as you heard one Nana Jana are we mana Mohamed and Abdullah he was to also be you home in Hawaii you
are Habib Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barik ala Nabi beginner have come Medina early he also be a
Gemini in what about your whole gender Gela who can Nikita gonna hijack our book I mean, basically I
will help you are in a very menial meaning like a goon.
		
00:03:20 --> 00:03:21
			Today I have a plethora of reminders.
		
00:03:23 --> 00:03:26
			I want to get right to it as time is not on our side.
		
00:03:27 --> 00:03:33
			First of all, we have just crossed over the the half line of Ramadan
		
00:03:35 --> 00:03:39
			and you're going to be very surprised how quickly the rest of Ramadan
		
00:03:41 --> 00:03:43
			dominoes right through us.
		
00:03:44 --> 00:04:08
			The first half takes a bit of time but the second half does definitely does not unite from now we'll
be starting last year here and then it just it just ends basically. So this is a very good time this
checkpoint today is a very good time better than ever to renew your intentions to make sure that you
have achieved or are on the way to achieve what it is that you're hoping to get out of Ramadan this
year.
		
00:04:13 --> 00:04:14
			I think
		
00:04:15 --> 00:04:21
			that there is definitely some signs there are some signs within Ramadan every year since COVID.
		
00:04:23 --> 00:04:29
			It's something that not only I have noticed that Imams around the country and elsewhere have noticed
as well.
		
00:04:30 --> 00:04:47
			People have come back to the houses of Allah subhanho wa Taala in higher numbers with more
commitment with more adherence with more willingness to show up professional and for Isha and to
stay till the end of thoroughly and to attend the wisdom and to come at other times during the day.
		
00:04:48 --> 00:04:59
			Something that prior to COVID We didn't see very often and I've been doing this for quite some time
now. I think it's a sign of high inshallah something for us to be hopeful for
		
00:05:00 --> 00:05:02
			Something to practice a little bit of optimism
		
00:05:03 --> 00:05:31
			because masajid that are filled with young people, male and female who are showing up hoping to
learn to worship Allah subhana which Allah Yes, the concept of learning to worship Allah subhanaw
taala because it does take time to learn how to do it. The willingness to do that desire to be close
to Allah subhanho wa Taala tells us that inshallah this was not on the decline, but in sha Allah on
the rise. It is something worthy of contemplation and reflection.
		
00:05:32 --> 00:05:34
			My second reminder
		
00:05:35 --> 00:05:48
			is that as we enter the last 10 Nights, remember that we don't know when late it actually is. We
don't know. It's hidden. But that's how everything works. In Islam, Allah subhanaw taala hides
everything.
		
00:05:49 --> 00:05:54
			Your moment of death is hidden. When he accepts your DUA, it's hidden.
		
00:05:57 --> 00:06:01
			When quantum what repentance he actually accept from you is hidden.
		
00:06:02 --> 00:06:22
			What sin you will be punished for it's hidden. Everything is hidden. Allah subhanaw taala operates.
So it's normal for the other to be hidden. Because you here hide these things apologize when you put
the effort, we told you when you were going to die, then you wouldn't show up to the masjid except
maybe a week before. We said it'd be empty aside from people who knew when they were expiring.
		
00:06:24 --> 00:06:33
			If you know what active worship was going to be accepted, that's the only one you would do if you
knew which punishment or which sin was going to cause you punishment, and that's the only one he
would avoid.
		
00:06:34 --> 00:06:41
			The academy is no different. He didn't tell you which night it is because then that's the only night
they'll show us. So it left it open. So you don't know.
		
00:06:42 --> 00:07:01
			There's nothing to be surprised about. That's how he operates always SubhanaHu wa, tada, this is
just this is a normal, it's just normal business last night, and somewhere in there. What I want you
to do, to motivate yourself, Inshallah, as you're coming and close to the end of Ramadan, and surely
at this point, you are tired and you're sleep deprived.
		
00:07:02 --> 00:07:12
			And you've lost some weight and your energy levels have come down. And that's and that's expected.
To motivate yourself as the end of Ramadan comes in, remind yourself of this.
		
00:07:13 --> 00:07:17
			Just imagine for a moment that this is your last chance
		
00:07:18 --> 00:07:21
			to actually witness live within your lifetime.
		
00:07:22 --> 00:07:27
			May Allah grant you long life if you see me. But you don't know. There's like I don't.
		
00:07:28 --> 00:08:09
			We don't know. We may never get that chance again. This little budget is ahead of us. What are the
last 10 nights? I don't know, I have no guarantee that I will ever be able to witness another one
again, just remind yourself of that simple thoughts that almost some should remind themselves of by
the way, every Muslim should continuously remind themselves of the fact that they don't know how
long they're going to live. And that death is around the corner at any point. Yes, we hope for long
life, we make dua for that. And we work towards that. And we take care of ourselves. However, we
have no guarantee of any of it. But just think about that, that you have this opportunity, and you
		
00:08:09 --> 00:08:12
			have no idea if you will ever be granted that opportunity again.
		
00:08:13 --> 00:08:16
			And that inshallah will serve as a bit of motivation for you.
		
00:08:18 --> 00:08:20
			The bulk of the hook, but the third reminder.
		
00:08:22 --> 00:08:27
			Ramadan teaches us and reminds us the importance of adhering to righteousness.
		
00:08:28 --> 00:08:37
			What is righteousness? Righteousness is a very fancy word or it's a big word. But all it really
means is just doing the right thing. That's all it means. In any given situation.
		
00:08:38 --> 00:08:45
			You do the right thing that's adherence to righteousness all doing the right thing is much more
difficult than we think.
		
00:08:47 --> 00:09:07
			Mainly because we don't really contemplate the concept too often. But if you were to do that, you
would find that doing the right thing in any given situation is a little bit of a challenge. Because
righteousness or doing the right thing often means that you are going to be selfless often means you
have to remove self interest from the action that you're doing often means you have to take a route
that's a little bit heavier on the knifes
		
00:09:08 --> 00:09:41
			Ramadan is very good at teaching us that not through words as I am going to do today, unfortunately,
but through practice. You see Ramadan puts you into a routine where you're doing the right thing
from a worship perspective. You are praying right now more than you pray all year round. And you
find way more than you passed obviously all year round. Ramadan commits you to the Mateljan to
please but you shouldn't be every day of your life. You should come to the masjid. RBD Ramadan
commits you to it for 30 nights and 30 days straight.
		
00:09:43 --> 00:09:46
			Ramadan makes sure that you have a meal with your family daily.
		
00:09:48 --> 00:09:59
			It makes sure that you sit with your family with your kids and your wife and you eat together every
day. But oh my god, make sure that you're a part of the community that you mingle with people and
you're part of a larger society.
		
00:10:00 --> 00:10:10
			Whether you enjoy it or not, it's not even important. But you're a part of a lot of pushes, it
forces you to do the right thing, and to be in the right place at the right time.
		
00:10:12 --> 00:10:41
			Without even coming to you and saying the physical is going to do, it just doesn't, and you find
yourself, you're healthier Ramadan, you consume this, theoretically, that is, of course, but you
consume less, because you don't eat as much not eating during the day. And if you're actually
performing an inter alia properly, you can only afford to eat once a day anyways, to consume less,
you're healthier, you spend more time with family, you're more committed to massage and you're with
your community more often you're worshiping better, you're doing the right thing.
		
00:10:42 --> 00:10:48
			For 30 days until unites, you are heavily pushed towards doing the right thing, you're doing the
right thing. And
		
00:10:50 --> 00:10:54
			that is what Ramadan teaches us. And let's go back just for the sake of
		
00:10:56 --> 00:11:01
			exploration. Let's go back a bit. Let's go back to the first Ramadan.
		
00:11:02 --> 00:11:10
			The first time the Sahaba heard what this was going to be the second year of Hegelians 14 I think 44
Right now
		
00:11:11 --> 00:11:48
			14 142 lunar years back into history. The Prophet alayhi salaatu wa salaam explained to the Sahaba
what cm and theum was going to look like I can only imagine what they were thinking as they heard
the Prophet alayhi salatu salam say these things to them. I can only imagine what they were thinking
as someone was telling them yes, you're going to, you're not going to eat or drink from sun rise
till sunset, maybe some of them were wondering if the Prophet alayhi salaatu wa salaam mixed them up
and meant from sunset to sunrise. Because if you're living in the middle of the desert, under the
scorching sun, it kind of makes it's kind of hard to imagine that I can eat for 15 or 16 hours a day
		
00:11:48 --> 00:11:52
			with that son with that middle eastern Gulf son above my head.
		
00:11:53 --> 00:12:03
			I can only imagine what they were wondering as the Prophet alayhi salam explained to them what
Ramadan is gonna look like. They probably started to plan out how they were going to sleep all day
and stay up all night.
		
00:12:05 --> 00:12:10
			But then on a crisp morning, just like like today, the Prophet alayhi salatu salam told them we need
to leave.
		
00:12:12 --> 00:12:15
			We need to leave. You need to go after a caravan.
		
00:12:17 --> 00:12:37
			That was if you guys caravan is coming back and within it is your stolen wealth. These are the
possessions that were taken from you, unlawfully. We need to go after it. This happened on a day
almost exactly like today. We're off by one day this happened on the 17th of that first Ramadan,
that the fasted or the Allahumma Jemaine
		
00:12:39 --> 00:12:43
			on that mo at that moment when the Prophet alayhi salatu salam said that,
		
00:12:44 --> 00:12:47
			interestingly enough, bulalo Sahaba were not really ready for it.
		
00:12:48 --> 00:12:54
			They started arguing with the Prophet alayhi salatu salam a little bit. Why yes, did Allah why do we
need to go after this caravan?
		
00:12:55 --> 00:13:09
			Is it because of the wealth? Yes, did Allah the money, we don't want the money. We've been here for
two years, the hamdulillah we've all had, we all have jobs. We have homes, we're doing better. We
don't need the money. hustlin men doesn't have money in their hearts.
		
00:13:10 --> 00:13:13
			Through Muslims, they don't care for wealth to hit us and Allah we don't need the wealth.
		
00:13:14 --> 00:13:27
			This new country that you've built in Medina, is beautiful. It's growing by the day more and more
people accept Islam every day. It's a beautiful, larger growing community. We don't need to go after
this caravan. Why poke the bear?
		
00:13:29 --> 00:13:34
			Why go and poke what I started up by we don't need to do this. We don't want the wealth yellow suit
Allah.
		
00:13:35 --> 00:13:36
			Allah when he's like I said
		
00:13:39 --> 00:13:42
			the answer was Who said anything about the money? I
		
00:13:44 --> 00:13:53
			said anything about the reason that we're doing this for the money. You think we're doing this
because if you want to get your money back, you misunderstood this whole thing.
		
00:13:54 --> 00:14:28
			Check out Rob Buka mean at Capitol Hill. Just like your Lord, how do you leave your house towards
that caravan bill. And the reason behind that was the pursuit of righteousness in a very fun,
menial, menial, like curry Hoon, and there was a group of the believers who didn't want to do it.
Yuja DeLuna Kafeel. They were arguing with you regarding issues of righteousness by them today. Jana
got a nama EUSA una el motivo, whom young Boone after it became clear that they were that they felt
that they were being led to their deathbeds.
		
00:14:29 --> 00:14:36
			And they didn't want to do it. As they didn't want to be taken to their desk as they looked at it.
They didn't want to go Why Why go poke but if
		
00:14:37 --> 00:14:39
			you're not ready the only 300 of us
		
00:14:40 --> 00:14:47
			we barely have enough arm we don't we can't bear we don't we don't we're not we don't have an army
yet. We're not fully trained yet. We're not prepared for this.
		
00:14:49 --> 00:14:57
			None of that mattered. None of these excuses that they were bringing mattered at all because it had
nothing to do with money. It had everything to do with how
		
00:14:58 --> 00:14:59
			and mentioning how
		
00:15:00 --> 00:15:01
			And speaking of how,
		
00:15:02 --> 00:15:05
			I guess every year in Ramadan, we have to be reminded.
		
00:15:07 --> 00:15:47
			I guess every year Ramadan, we have to be reminded of a of an unlawfully taken away within our time.
And we have to see it with our eyes. And we have to see the dishonouring of the saw mosque every
year, being reminded that it is still occupied till this day, by an apartheid country that has no
respect for human rights whatsoever and have no respect for religious freedoms or religious rights
in any form or manner, and look at Muslims as it but not even human and treat them as such, we're
forced to be reminded that we are reminded every year whether we like it or not, where am I you have
a hook, this is the issue, the issue is the issue of how you don't have to like that part of the
		
00:15:47 --> 00:16:02
			world. You don't have like the people will come from that part of the world, it doesn't matter. It
does not matter. This is a hug that was taken away and until is returned, it will be will continue
to be on the top of the list of Muslims priorities until it's returned again.
		
00:16:03 --> 00:16:06
			So Sahaba thought it was about the money. It's not about the money.
		
00:16:08 --> 00:16:14
			Don't get the money that was gonna take your right back. And if you don't want the money, give it
back to them willfully.
		
00:16:15 --> 00:16:26
			They took your money, they took your wealth unlawfully go get it back. And then once you have it in
your hand, if you truly don't want your wealth, give it to them, gift it to them. I don't care what
you do with your wealth once you have it, but it's your
		
00:16:27 --> 00:16:42
			it's your right and you need to go and you need to claim your right. Not about the wealth. This is a
habit and understand that right off the bat. Right off the bat. It wasn't clear to them. They
thought it was about the money it wasn't. So if you go to these verses in Suitland furl
		
00:16:44 --> 00:16:51
			you're gonna find that Allah subhanaw taala uses the word how many times no matter how Raja
rockbrook Amin Beatty capital help you God Luna Kafeel
		
00:16:54 --> 00:17:16
			Allahu Akbar if at any in La Quwata we're doing another your other TV show, Kati kulula, calm where
you read hula hoop, and you hit Calaca because the mighty Waikato Katharina Lee, you hit Calaca,
while you both little bow thriller, widow curry, hello, majorem was six times and three verses, you
continue to say, is to achieve and adhere to righteousness.
		
00:17:17 --> 00:17:24
			And we are forced every year to be reminded of that, by the behaviors of those who have very little
respect others.
		
00:17:25 --> 00:18:04
			And as Muslims being reminded of that requires us to contemplate and think, what is our role? Well,
how do we support just causes? How do we support righteousness in our lives? And what are we doing?
Ramadan puts you on that track? It puts you on the track of walking and adhering to righteousness.
And when we see stuff like this, we can't act like we're not seeing. Well, listen, while you can't
act like you're not seeing, you cannot, you didn't see soldiers taking the back part of their rifles
or slamming people in the head in the middle of the house of Allah subhanaw taala. It's hard to
conceive, stuff like that. It's hard to understand why something like that would be acceptable. It's
		
00:18:04 --> 00:18:11
			hard to understand when something like that happens when religious freedoms are being violated like
that, how the rest of the world seems to act like it didn't happen.
		
00:18:12 --> 00:18:35
			It's hard to understand why is it that we're so cheap to everyone? Where our blood doesn't matter
why or why our rights don't matter? It's hard. It does. It is a struggle for me. Why is it that I
don't matter to people, when something happens to those who adhere to my faith, or in front of my
part of the world? Or it's a rite that was taken from us Why suddenly no one cares, and it just goes
on?
		
00:18:36 --> 00:18:55
			It just he just continues to go through no one looks at his not report is not talked about no one
gets upset. And there's something of much smaller magnitude of Hulk is violated and everyone talks
about it. And then you're wondering, why wasn't that talked about? Are we less valuable? Are we less
important? Do we not matter as much? What's the what's the problem?
		
00:18:56 --> 00:19:26
			Don't expect people to stand up for your hug. Don't expect that. This lesson needs to be learned by
all of us. Do not expect for anyone in this world to care about the hug that is yours because no one
does. The only one who cares about your actors has to be you. Which is why the Prophet Allah you saw
him on that crisp morning. The 17th of Ramadan, the second year of hijra, told them we're going to
leave after that caravan. You know sort of love there's only we have, we have two camels.
		
00:19:27 --> 00:19:28
			That's it.
		
00:19:29 --> 00:19:32
			An army with only two people on horseback
		
00:19:33 --> 00:19:33
			to
		
00:19:35 --> 00:19:39
			there's 300 of us. Some of them are extremely young.
		
00:19:40 --> 00:19:54
			They had not been fully in formally trained properly. It didn't matter. None of that mattered you
understand the importance of this day in the Quran. This day is called Yeoman for con. That's what
it's called the day where the difference was established the difference between what
		
00:19:55 --> 00:20:00
			Bain and Huxley will battle between righteousness and falsehood. None of
		
00:20:00 --> 00:20:31
			that mattered they would go and you'd end up facing an army that was three times they're numbered
123 no one there if people were betting no one had their money on the Muslims making any progress
any progress at all. It was not even it was not in the cards so do you mean well hello Sinhala and
Mohamed Salah Salem with this small group of people are going to take on their their taking on the
leader, the protector of the protectors of the gods that's how Qureshi was seen. Because that's
where all the snom were it was in the middle of muck and take on the strongest force within Arabia.
		
00:20:34 --> 00:20:34
			But they did.
		
00:20:36 --> 00:20:37
			And they stood their ground.
		
00:20:39 --> 00:20:51
			And despite the fear, and despite the difficulty of the task, they still saw it through a call you
already heard that was tough Rola Holly welcome. Let's toggle through who yelled at Lakonia foes and
was takfiri install federal law.
		
00:21:09 --> 00:21:19
			Hamdulillah he, also Allahu wa salam ala can Allah Allah Nabi Yabba Lee, he also have a war Manitoba
and Jaya who will have
		
00:21:20 --> 00:21:53
			what I'm saying today, it's not a call for any form of violence as it's, I think, obvious at this
point. But rather, this is a call for true adherence to righteousness. If you're learning anything,
if we're learning anything from Ramadan, and if we're going to learn anything from the story of
Bejeweled, this must be the lesson. This is the lesson at least that Allah subhanaw taala wanted to
teach us in the sauna. That's how we started the story off. That's not how we start the story off
when I'm telling the story and sila, I will start the story off with starting with actual stories
about the Sahaba and what the prophet Alayhi Salatu was Salam said and how they got it and how they
		
00:21:53 --> 00:22:27
			debated and how they asked each other for opinion and how they feel to get figured out where they're
going to stay and all those beautiful details that make the story enjoyable. But that's not how
Allah tells the story. He tells the story through the lens of righteousness. That's why they left
that thing. And that's why Allah subhanaw taala made sure this day mattered. And that's why anyone
who attended that day was called Bidri. And as a hobby, a companion who is Bedri who was there for a
bundle, outranked any other Sahabi by far if this person attended bundle by default that person
outranked all the rest of the Sahaba are the Allahu Anhu because they stood on a very difficult day
		
00:22:27 --> 00:22:29
			why for righteousness that's why
		
00:22:32 --> 00:22:48
			within these verses there's one of them point out for you because I think it's it's interesting. He
says Subhana wa Tala. For them talk to him. Well, I can Allah patella, whom one out Ramita is Ramita
Wilkin Allah Rama you didn't actually meet them.
		
00:22:49 --> 00:22:53
			But Allah subhanaw taala did and then he says something that's almost
		
00:22:54 --> 00:23:21
			almost makes you confused. He says well now Ramita and you did not throw your arrow is Ramita when
you through your arrow when I can Allah ha Rama but it's Allah subhanaw taala who through the arrow,
that's the literal translation of this word that will matter is when you let go of the of the arrow
within your bow. Well my meter is a meter and you didn't actually let your the bow out of your arrow
you let the arrow out of your bow when you let the arrow out of your bow.
		
00:23:22 --> 00:23:26
			What are we? What are you saying here? Either we did it or we didn't do it.
		
00:23:27 --> 00:23:38
			This is the this is the lesson he's trying to teach here. Subhana wa Tada Yes, you let the air out
of the bow. But it only landed on target to was to wilt through the will of Allah subhana wa Donna.
		
00:23:39 --> 00:24:15
			It only lasted only hit its target because Allah subhanaw taala willed for it to do so. So it's
really not you. Yes, you stood there you held the bow you pull the arrow back and you let it go but
it only hit the target because that's what Allah subhanaw taala wanted it to do to allow me to is
Romania it wasn't you who achieved the goal. You just performed your part. Well I can Allah Almighty
Allah subhanaw taala who made sure it happened to why am I doing it then the verse answers you don't
worry. Well you believe me Nina mean who Bella and Hassan. But yeah, you have to prove yourself. You
have to make sure believers are willing to prove themselves standard that stand their ground and do
		
00:24:15 --> 00:24:19
			the right thing. Here's the opportunity. Let's see what will you do?
		
00:24:21 --> 00:24:36
			As Muslims today we are asked that same question in a different context, in a different context with
different forms of adherence to righteousness. There is no bow and arrow involved in your adherence,
at least not now.
		
00:24:38 --> 00:24:41
			Your adherence is through through knowledge,
		
00:24:42 --> 00:24:46
			community building, to supporting people
		
00:24:49 --> 00:25:00
			being a voice granting a voice for those to those who don't have one. That's your adherence to
righteousness, beauty, continue to care about the the rights that have been taken.
		
00:25:00 --> 00:25:16
			In a way unlawfully from Muslim brothers and sisters around the world, that is your adherence to
righteousness, it changes the form of it changes the concept doesn't. Throughout history, there's
always gonna be a different way of, of standing by what is right and doing the right thing is just
the concept that stays the same.
		
00:25:17 --> 00:25:24
			This is what Allah subhanaw taala was telling them marami to eat raw meat, it wasn't you. I'm the
one who made sure it landed.
		
00:25:25 --> 00:25:30
			So what's the point and the point is, you do what you need to do. For the sake of Allah,
		
00:25:31 --> 00:26:11
			you do your best, and then facilitation and success and that is in the hands of God. The problem
with us is the first piece of the sentence is just not always, the first piece of the sentence
doesn't seem to, I don't know, resignate with us, you need to do your best. You need to do
everything you possibly can. Yes, the tow fee is from Allah, the success is from Allah victories
from Allah. But where is the actual effort? What are the people who are doing their best, exhausting
all resources, pushing themselves to their limits, standing by what is right and voicing that out,
making sure that they take a stand for what is what is valuable in this world and what Allah
		
00:26:11 --> 00:26:12
			subhanaw taala asked them to
		
00:26:13 --> 00:26:15
			know pieces missing.
		
00:26:16 --> 00:26:19
			And as long as that piece is missing, the other piece doesn't really happen.
		
00:26:20 --> 00:26:20
			It doesn't
		
00:26:22 --> 00:26:28
			success piece, and the facilitation doesn't just drop out of the sky. It happens through the effort
of human beings.
		
00:26:29 --> 00:27:06
			Understanding that Allah delivers whatever he wants, we may try our best and doesn't work. But that
doesn't matter. Our job is to do that. Our job is to do what they did on the 17th of Ramadan, 14 142
years ago. And we stand by what is right. It's not about anything, not about money, not about
status. It's not about fame. It's not it's not it's just about how, because nothing, nothing
outweighs nothing outweighs righteousness. When you put in the scales. Once you put righteousness in
it, everything else goes flying into the sky. No matter what you put there, you can put what you
want to put
		
00:27:07 --> 00:27:44
			your your financial well being your social well being your family, your state, safety, whatever you
want to put put everything there, the moment you draw up on the other scale, everything goes flying
because nothing comes close to it. That's the lesson. That's the lesson of Ramadan. That's the
lesson of budget. And this is where you had to take time and think about and contemplate in order
for us to actually achieve what Allah subhanaw taala was hoping for us to achieve. I hope that was a
benefit to you. As you walk out today, you're gonna see a QR code up there on the wall. And if
you're under WhatsApp groups, then we've already shared a message for a survey,
		
00:27:46 --> 00:28:08
			the survey designed by a team here at the Wellness, and he's home Allah here. And we're distributing
all around the city surveys, it's one survey per family, not per person. So if you're a family with
your mother or father, or if you're single, you do it on your own. You're living in a household, you
fill out the survey. This helps us understand a little bit what our demographics are, as the
elderly,
		
00:28:10 --> 00:28:48
			and many other hot leaves in this in the city. For the majority of time I'm shooting in the dark. I
don't know who I'm talking to, aside from the people who might know by face and by name. I don't
know exactly what the needs are, what the problems are. I can imagine I can extrapolate. I can
sometimes draw analogies, I can draw parallels do my best. But I don't know. And as long as a
community we tend as long as as a community, we don't exactly know how many of us there are, what
demographics we fall into what challenges we actually have, that we're not going to be able to grow
as a as a society or as a community. Take a few minutes to take maybe three minutes or four minutes
		
00:28:48 --> 00:29:28
			to fill this survey out. And then take it and distribute it to your Muslim brothers and sisters who
don't come to massage it. If you have family members and you do and if you have friends and you most
definitely do. We're Muslim who do not come to massage it for whatever reason. Give them the survey
and ask them please fill it out. Because that just gives me information so that I can serve them
better. Because those who don't come to massage, there must be a reason for it. I don't know what it
is. Again, I can imagine I can I can assume. But why do that that's not a safe game. Let's know
exactly what the problem is. Let's hear people and let's see if we can build spaces and provide
		
00:29:28 --> 00:29:31
			programming that will be actually beneficial for them.
		
00:29:32 --> 00:29:59
			So take it fill it out yourself and give it to others take a few minutes. And once we have the data
from this serving may take a couple of weeks may take a month or so. I will share it with you. I
will share with you the actual the actual information that we got. I'll explain to you exactly
what's the and analyze it and we have the the Analyze crunch data crunch numbers, I'll show it to
you. And this is where our problems like this is what the majority of people are saying this is what
they enjoy. This is what they feel
		
00:30:00 --> 00:30:08
			Here, here's what they struggle with. This is what they would expect myself to do. This is what
disappoints them about these things organization so that we can improve and we can grow.
		
00:30:10 --> 00:30:14
			I've been talking about a census for a long time, I would urge you.
		
00:30:16 --> 00:30:49
			Because you can't go and eat obviously, it's Ramadan. So you're not in a hurry to go anywhere,
really just take the QR code or if you have the WhatsApp group, then you don't need to do that. Just
go to the survey, take a few minutes and fill it out for us. And then if you have friends, and you
have family members who are distant from Islam, who lost their way a while ago, ask them to fill it
out. Why? Because I need to see how we're going to serve them. Because we need to we let me let me
tell you this. How many Muslims do you think actually attend Jomar around the city? Altogether, we
recycle Around 3500 people, it's the same people. The same people who attend all the fundraising
		
00:30:49 --> 00:31:18
			dinners who attend taraweeh who attend the programming is the same 330 500 people being recycled
everywhere. Every time someone has a fundraising unit. It's the same people attend every dinner.
It's the same people all you have to just just stand at the door and say, hello, say hello. See you
tomorrow we go to the other place. I don't know it's an insane people, nothing changes. But there's
at least at least at least nine or eight times more people in this community who are Muslim. Why?
Because when it comes, well then then we have 7000 People like well, where where have you all been?
		
00:31:20 --> 00:31:38
			What have you been doing? Where have you been attending stuff? How do you take care of your, your
deen and your children? And then you go to a marketplace, for example. And then 12,000 people show
up. And you're wondering, where did you all come from, and we have a problem, because we're not,
there's no outreach because we're not actually extending our hands trying to welcome people back in
again.
		
00:31:40 --> 00:32:00
			With their difficulties with their challenge with their sins, with their lack of understanding,
that's not my business. We're not here to judge we're here to educate, train, welcome, help aid if
they are 50 metres away from righteousness if I can get them 49 that I have done something and I can
lie in my grave knowing that I tried and I pushed them one step closer to Allah subhanho wa taala.
		
00:32:01 --> 00:32:33
			And this actually, is exactly what adherence to righteousness is, when we talk about luck. How do
you think that's going to change, it's going to change when Muslims care about it. When enough
Muslims around the world care about and they voice and they make sure their voices heard. You can't
ignore 2 billion people were asking for one thing. But if the 2 billion, most of them are just
playing video games, or are busy with their traveling or busy with their other aspects of life, and
they don't really care, and maybe a very small group of people do, it's easy. It's not that
difficult. It's not that we can distract them quickly, distract them quickly, anything to distract
		
00:32:33 --> 00:33:10
			them, then we move on. We continue to dishonor a holy place in the Holy Land, where their profits
are less than and wait for Islam and left for Miraj. When Abraham Ali Salam and it's not easy, and
it's hot and Yaqoob and Yusuf and Musa and Buddha Solomon walked, they can do it because not enough
people care. So we talk about serving Muslims and seeing what we can do to help them and bring them
closer to Allah subhanho wa taala. This is central in our adherence to righteousness. If you don't
think it's all scattered nine I saw it's all the same thing. All focusing all title in the same
direction for the same purpose.
		
00:33:11 --> 00:33:14
			Take some time and do that for us and help us out and Shelley's looking block in
		
00:33:15 --> 00:33:50
			sha Allah to her God will start Tuesday after Tarawa. We're gonna start roughly around three
o'clock, maybe a few minutes early, depending on how the night goes and how busy we become. We'll go
around for an hour or so until 415 rattling people enough time to go home and have their cell phone
and come back if you plan if you do come and you plan to go over here bring your surfboard with you.
It's a potluck so holder so if you're coming empty handed aside from a date and maybe a little bit
of water I don't know what I can do for you. So make sure that if you come for tahajjud then if
you're coming you want to stay for us to hold bring something with you so that people so that you
		
00:33:50 --> 00:34:11
			can share it and there'll be shelf space that will provide for that and I will start in Charlotte
Tuesday night after Oh yeah, it'll be around three o'clock a little bit earlier Jeff I bet his
Hotmail was to be started becoming one o'clock so this message basically from any shot time to
schedule will be open nonstop with different things going on and shoulder Tom just tried to carpool
when you when you come in. Please don't
		
00:34:12 --> 00:34:47
			park on Gainsborough anymore. Find other places to park use the side roads or maybe some of the
facilities around us that have parking spaces at night when it's closed. Use that but don't congest
the road outside. I will be giving a Delta starting this Wednesday. After also the first day of the
last night after I'll be giving a seven seven episode series I've been doing this for the last maybe
six years now. I choose a topic and I talked about it for seven days you're welcome to come and
attend to hear the message if you'd like it'll be broadcasted on the Facebook page as well on the
YouTube if you want to do that as well. And continue as I said to renew your intention and remind
		
00:34:47 --> 00:35:00
			yourself of what you hope to achieve from Allah subhanho wa Taala and commit just commit only a few
more to you'll be you'll regret it in the morning of eight if you didn't. He's gonna you're going to
install a witness aid either either
		
00:35:00 --> 00:35:33
			way, but if you didn't push yourself within Ramadan, you'll look back and you'd wish you did. You'll
say to yourself I wish I would have what would have cost me because the tiredness and the fatigue,
you forget about that it go it fades away well stays is the measure or the lack of it stays with us
either the idea or the lack of measure. The fatigue is forgotten. You have a long sleep on the day
of eight and you're done and you're fine and you're not tired anymore. You forget about what it
meant to be tired but you look back and said I didn't do my thing so don't allow that regret to
occur for you while I'm waiting Allah Hamana me and I'll leave in for fall in hola hola Mila. You
		
00:35:33 --> 00:36:19
			gotta who you saw Luna Alain de yeah you are living in LA he recently moved to Lima Allahumma Salli
ala Muhammad in Ryder early Mohammed them also later Ida Ibrahim Ibrahim barbaric Allah Mohan early
Mohammed Kamau Bell McDonough Ibrahim Ibrahim El Amin NACA Hamid Majeed what are the Allah who
manage Autobytel hoga is that the backhoe well Omar our man our ally what Allah Who man as well gee
Omaha meaning one early HIPAA up in a bar here in one Sahaba T hill or in Miami Juanita been in
elementary our home BSN in Isla yo Medina one my homegirl Hermetica or hammer ra Haman Allahu melas
good Muslim you know when a Muslim well meaning in our minute Allah yeah even human am word Allah
		
00:36:19 --> 00:36:59
			who my favorite whom Allah Muhammad Amin when our fiscal Ruben Nakuru been what Viola Manny LogMeIn
WaterFire bull man in Muslimeen wagon Dima and what email al Muslimeen Allah who modeled domestic
slavery have been Muslimeen Hola, hola. Hola and El Mirage, Lena venia or Amin Allahumma barik
Glenna female bhakti yoga Ramadan well Philadelphia he looks so yummy will pm will help build basalt
he will he will listen with Taco Bell home in hammer rock in Kansas City I mean what are we what are
we learning in Aliya about Allah in Allah yet Moroccan ideally when you eat even again honey Russia
evil Moon carry well belt when you're able to come into the car