Ammar Alshukry – Who Wants to Be Like Mike

			Hamdi Lau salatu salam ala Rasulillah, who wants to be like Mike. So I was reading an article about
Michael Jordan turning 50. And it was big news, Michael Jordan turned 50 years old. You know the
image of human athleticism, strength, power, agility, a man who was able to convince people that he
could fly had turned 50 he had become a chef, in the linguistic sense, right? So it was a it was a
big deal. And in the article, they interviewed Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan, he talked about his
transformation and how he's able to get along to live basically without playing the game of
basketball. But in the article, he mentioned that if he could give all of it back, he would give all
		

			of it back. So he could play the game of basketball. And I thought to myself, somehow, this is a
person who has a dream career like he, there's nothing. There's nobody who wouldn't trade places
with Jordan to have that career, six championships Olympian, a statue outside of the United Center
being considered by so many people to be the greatest of all time. And even then he's still not
satisfied. The son of Adam is never satisfied, he would still want to go back and play the game of
basketball. And I thought to myself, Ronald, even in his State of success, there's still a state of
either there, there's torment there, because even while he was promised the mortality during his
		

			life, he sees that it's being chipped away. People are now committing, you know, the, the blasphemy,
I remember Subhanallah you'd see sportscasters they would be hesitant to compare someone to Michael
Jordan, there's actually like, it's like blasphemy in the religion of sports, that you say that
someone is better than Michael Jordan. Yet now people are, you know, they are removed enough from
his legacy that they can now say things like LeBron James is better than Jordan and this or that, or
that it's projected that he's going to have a better career than Michael Jordan. And there's nothing
that the real Michael Jordan can do. With all of his competitive nature, he can't play Kobe Bryant
		

			or LeBron James or Kevin Durant. He can't play them one on one, he simply can't. So he can just
simply wait. That's all he can do, and see how their legacies play out. And subhanAllah it is for
him. It is a type of either bits or type of punishment. And I thought to myself,
		

			if that's with him, if he's not satisfied with the portion that he's been given in this world, what
makes it what makes me think that I'll be satisfied or that you'll be satisfied with what we've been
given if we're destined to be given much less. And so, one of the things to learn from this is that
human beings never have the ability to perfectly appreciate anything, so don't make your audience
human beings. Choose your audience wisely. Make your audience Allah's Dogen Allah azza wa jal is the
one who appreciates what you do in full and Allah azza wa jal is the one who knows everything that
you do. Allah says Who Am I? If Allah Allahu Allah become in Chicago to Miami to McCann Allahu
		

			Shackelton Halima What does Allah gain from punishing you? If you would simply believe and be
thankful? And Allah azza wa jal is all knowing, all appreciative or all appreciative all knowing
Allah azza wa jal and you know, there are some people who they notice everything, but they're not
thankful. And then there are some people who are very thankful they're very appreciative, but
they're clueless, they don't notice what you do for them. You know, they walk into a house, they see
that it's all clean, and they don't notice that somebody must have you know, done that or someone
moves furniture around or someone wash their car for them or any of these things put gas in the
		

			tank, they don't notice these things. And so Allah azza wa jal is all appreciative and he is all
thankful he sees the quiet sedge. He knows the burning patience, he knows everything that you go
through to walk towards him and he appreciates all of it. Allah azza wa jal and when the people of
paradise enter Paradise, he says to them in the Haida Canada come Jessa and what kind of Saturday
call mascara, this is for you a reward and your journey was appreciated. We ask Allah Azza to make
us have no audience other than Him and we ask Allah as the agenda he makes our actions, ones that
are appreciated by him or Samba Allah and as you know, Hamid, it was it was interesting