Daood Butt – Remembering Death Muhammad AlShareef & Taking Advantage of Life

Daood Butt

July 22, 2022

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The segment discusses the importance of learning from the Prophet's teachings and finding one's own success in life. It also touches on the impact of the Prophet's teachings on people's lives and the need for people to use their learning and sharing knowledge to improve their lives. The importance of putting things in place and increasing the quality of knowledge for students is emphasized, along with the need for people to submit to their beliefs.

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			my brothers and sisters
		
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			today it was a day
		
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			I really did not feel like doing this
		
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			yesterday
		
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			dear brother,
		
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			a pioneer
		
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			a graduates from the Islamic University of Medina.
		
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			He was only five years older than me.
		
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			Many of you know him.
		
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			Many of you met him.
		
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			And many of you studied with him. And under him.
		
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			Chef Muhammad Sharif
		
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			was the founder of The Marketing Institute.
		
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			which some of you may be familiar with.
		
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			And I typically don't do a book
		
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			about someone who is alive.
		
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			And I usually don't do a football,
		
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			about someone who is from our time that passed away.
		
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			But there were some lessons in the life of Sheikh Mohammed
		
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			who passed away at the mirror, were young age of 47 years old.
		
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			The achievements that we see in a person's life
		
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			makes us reflect upon our own lives.
		
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			makes us think of the life of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			And really, this is the lesson that I take from
		
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			the death of every single person that I hear passes away.
		
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			That they're passing away is a reminder that I will also pass away
		
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			and their death is a reminder that we will also die.
		
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			Their time is up.
		
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			Our time is still not.
		
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			So what would we do?
		
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			And Allah subhana water Allah says in verse number 281 of surah baqarah
		
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			and this was as a shadow of the Allah Allah tells us the last verse that was revealed to Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			what up boy young woman to Jamuna V ina long
		
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			once you've learned on
		
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			an idea that rings through my head every single day,
		
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			years back on I learned to the importance of this idea.
		
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			I made sure that every single day I recite this to myself.
		
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			What took the young woman to Derawan Fe and
		
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			be mindful of the day that you will return to ABA
		
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			ofc. Marchesa
		
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			and every single soul every single person will have,
		
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			what they deserve, will receive from above what they deserve,
		
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			when whom lay over them and none will be wronged. None will be wronged.
		
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			If you permit, that I take some examples
		
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			from a brother who changed the way many of us thought
		
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			he did not intend to change Islam. He did not intend to do something different than what the profits
some of them were under us, some of them came with.
		
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			And I know some may have the reservations. But Sheikh Mohammed at the young age of 47, taught
hundreds of 1000s of students across this globe.
		
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			And after graduating from Medina, coming back to North America, residing a few years in the US, and
as well as in Canada, traveled the world and open doors and opportunities for many Imams to travel
the world.
		
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			To spread Islam, in the language of the people English in the country that we live in, and the
countries that we would join.
		
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			But his idea of teaching Islam was different than what many of the first few Imams taught when they
came.
		
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			Not that the content was different, but the way of going about teaching was different.
		
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			He raised the bar in terms of professionalism.
		
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			And he implemented something in his life that he will take with him in his grave.
		
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			A Southern kajaria for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam teaches us that when we leave this
world, there are three things that we leave behind. And we take with us
		
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			from those three things, is beneficial knowledge.
		
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			Think of the amount of knowledge that is shared, the amount of knowledge that is received. And then
remember our teachers in Medina telling us if you're not going to use this knowledge and share it
with others, or you're not going to show up for class, men don't come and sit here go back home.
		
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			For the Amana, that responsibility is on your shoulders. You've been chosen and selected from all of
the people of your country.
		
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			chosen by Allah Subhana Allah to come to the city of Muhammad Salah and that he will send the medina
to Managua
		
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			and if you're going to miss a single class, then know that that is a responsibility you will have to
send before Allah subhana wa Tada answer.
		
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			And I remember those words being so powerful to me.
		
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			I refuse to miss a single class.
		
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			That the responsibility of transmitting the knowledge that we received from the city of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is so important.
		
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			So important for the spread of Islam, in the countries and lands that we returned to. And Sheikh
Mohammed took this really seriously.
		
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			In addition to this, my brothers and sisters,
		
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			I want to simply remind us
		
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			that yesterday was Sheikh Mohammed, today will be you and me. And tomorrow will be our children.
		
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			We will not be here forever.
		
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			We will not be in this world forever. So take full advantage of your time. Take full advantage of
your life. Take full advantage of the blessings of Allah subhanho wa Taala as we'll see in the
second half of this clip, but and move forward towards the pleasure of Allah azza wa jal according
to company had Allah subhanahu wa for Sophia will in the movement before you
		
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			can get elected in Ireland and people to live with the theme of the Sunday what
		
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			are they have a solid to the scene another?
		
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			My brothers and sisters the prophets on the longer I think he was some of them said couldn't be fit
dunya be in this world in this dunya
		
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			dunya and Nicobar you allow them to
		
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			be in this world as though you were a stranger or
		
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			as though you're just a traveler passing through.
		
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			What does this mean for us? One of the lessons that we see from the life of Sheikh Mohammed machete,
Rahim Allah
		
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			is that he challenged the way that we thought.
		
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			He encouraged us to think differently,
		
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			to use different tools, different methods to come out of our shell to come out of that box to think
outside of the norm.
		
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			There were many and I remember years back, myself included, I was like, why are people having to pay
for Islamic courses? Why are people having to pay to learn the deen of Allah subhanho wa taala.
		
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			And at the time, it didn't make sense. And we discussed this many times. But when you fast forward,
and you see how the people who pay are the ones who take that knowledge seriously, then you realize
the importance of putting certain things in place, and the payments or not payments to encourage or
to increase someone's lifestyle, the payments or to encourage the student to take that knowledge
seriously. And to increase in the quality of knowledge that is given to increase in the quality of
classes and classrooms and to have greater outreach. And you see their shift, Mohammed really
changed this dynamic for us here in the Western world. When we think of Islam being taught, I
		
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			remember being a child sitting in the Halacha in our Masjid in Montreal, and the Imam was teaching
in Norbu. and on Wednesdays was teaching in Arabic. And I didn't understand a single word that he
was saying, but I was just happy to be in the huddle.
		
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			And I remember my father sitting in learning.
		
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			And I remember sometimes the Arab brothers on Wednesday, they would sit and they would learn and I
would go and join the Halacha just for the sake of being in 100.
		
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			But didn't know a single thing about what was taught.
		
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			And Hamdulillah, we are today in a different position. There was a time when a imam or 14 would
stand on a member. And it was considered completely inappropriate to speak in a language other than
Arabic.
		
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			And now Al Hamdulillah. We sit here and our children can understand what we're saying. And this is
because of people who were not scared to step outside of the norm, like Sheikh Mohammed, who was not
scared about what the people would say. And I remember I'm even looking around and I see Ahmed in
the back, brother, I was saying who will hamdulillah took that strong stance as well. Being a
university student, and learning from the scholars of the time and then teaching the other
university students at university.
		
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			This was a time when we had no Dean being taught to us if we spoke English or French. But there were
certain people that said, we're not going to let that stop us. We're not going to let criticism stop
us. We're not going to let people say what they want to say and stop us. And really what we see from
Mohammed is that he wouldn't look in his rearview mirror except to correct his mistakes.
		
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			He always was looking forward, always looking towards new opportunities, new challenges, new ways to
spread the deen and he spent every single day of his life as someone who memorize the Quran at a
young age some of you might know Cornwall, madrasa, right in Cornwall as an Egyptian he studied
there right usually when we think of Cornwall we think of any DC will do speaking but generally
speaking, you might go there and study as an Egyptian from an Arab family went and memorize for an
in seven months.
		
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			When the average student is struggling to learn three lines, four lines half a page one page he was
doing half of Jews
		
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			This is from the blessings of Allah subhana
		
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			and those blessings
		
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			No one says that those blessings are haram for you and I
		
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			we can also receive from ALLAH SubhanA wa Jalla we just have to want it as much. We have to push
hard in our Dean my brothers and sisters. Time for Change. Time to reflect myself included all
morning all nights yesterday been thinking yesterday I was in complete shock. The emotions was not
hitting me I couldn't shed a single tear. Today I woke up and it's hard to hold the tears back.
		
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			Why? Because Allah Subhana Allah has gifted us with something important. This Deen Iman belief in
Allah azza wa jal are we going to take it seriously. It's time that we raise the bar. It's time that
we raise our status as believers
		
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			sajit board members, Islamic organizations need to raise their status, stop doing things the same
way. We always did do them differently enough with you know, community members arguing about things
that are that should have been solved 20 3040 years ago, enough with doing things as though we're
living in another country. It's time that we look at what the needs of the Muslims are here.
		
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			Whether it's a masjid, whether it's an Islamic organization, or even for ourselves, and I speak to
myself first. If I'm not efficient, if I'm not able to achieve and to do the things that Allah
Subhana Allah has given me the capacity to do, I'm leaving and I'm moving on.
		
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			That's it. This is the way we have to be. This is the way we have to think if we're not able to
excel, if we're not able to achieve we need to move forward. Those who want to stay in the past,
leave them in the past. Those that don't want to embrace the deen of Allah move forward because
there will be others that will embrace the deen of Allah. That doesn't mean that we never looked
back. But it means that you just tuned the focus in your rearview mirror to correct your mistakes.
Now lots of hand awards Allah have mercy upon our dealership, Allah subhanho To Allah have mercy
upon every single one of us and shower His blessings and mercy upon the prophets of Allah it was
		
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			Sunday
		
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			time that you've already know how to
		
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			achieve
		
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			magic, along with the learning outcome that was an hour long, multiple,
		
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			long
		
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			hours, Islam or Muslims? A lot my answer is no, it was a lot of
		
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			a lot of things open our hearts to your outlook. Please forgive us of our shortcomings. Allah grant
us the strength that we need to achieve great things in our lives. Hello, please make it easy for us
to cherish the belief that you've instilled within us. And I love these make it easy for us to use
the DNA that you've given to us in ways that benefit us in this life and in the hereafter. Love
Please protect our children and their children and their children. Love Please protect the home of
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we know what we believe in. We trust that you are there for
us. And we never doubt that Allah has made it easy for us to submit to you. Yeah, well please make
		
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			it easy for us to understand the importance of unity in our community. In your world. Please make it
easy for us to always turn to you and to submit to you and to submit to none other than you haven't
been idling in a while he'll probably not even before but I inherited from chatting
		
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			with the room yesterday, when
		
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			I read