Haifaa Younis – The Real Muslim #02
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The difficulty of finding out who is in a room is now resolved, and the importance of witnessing and staying steadfast in leadership is emphasized. The speaker also emphasizes the need to understand someone's relationship and not giving too many false assumptions, and the importance of practicing Islam in every decision. The speaker offers advice on what to ask for in a leadership position and emphasizes the importance of leadership in shaping one's life.
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External if you are not this internal.
Meaning, no one know in your room.
Where does your relationship go
I'm only external.
And then I go to my room, Allah
knows what I see or speak or do
or where is my salah or where is
my personal relationship with Allah. That's what you
need.
And honestly, honestly, this is way easier now
in spite of everything you are seeing than
when I was in your shoes.
When I came to that Washington University day
1, you know the first question I was
asked, what's your religion?
I was like, that's gonna be a very
difficult for you. They don't even know what
this now is.
I doubt anyone now will ask you what's
your
religion. Very unless you're gonna go to Dakota
in one of these whatever, they don't have
anything. And then I was like, they've never
seen.
So now it's very easy. But what is
the problem? And please forgive me. I don't
mean you but in general. I mean, as
you most of you know, I just came
back from Gaza.
And it's it's it's sad. I was in
the Arab world and then I was in
Gaza without say it as a.
Numbers,
the numbers are useless.
Like the phone
That cannot
be me. Every one of you here,
literally, 5 years ago, put it. I wanna
get married and have children. That'll be, I
mean, I wanna whatever you wanna do,
don't forget.
And a 5 year old with Allah.
Even if Allah decide to take you or
take me before I reach that goal, he
will
reward me as if I reached it. You
know that. Because that's a principle in the
Quran.
So
ever migrated for the sake of Allah. For
the sake of Allah, meaning you left everything.
You left your comfort zone. You left a
good job because it was displeasing to Allah.
You add your
peace for the sake of Allah.
Love.
Whomsoever
leave his house,
migrating for Allah his
then he does.
Meaning, you didn't reach, you didn't finish.
Your reward will be given by Allah Subhanahu
wa'anahu.
And then my leadership in doing.
Hassan for after that,
Hassan in my
Muslim personal relationship with Allah and then my
Muslim
relationship with this.
You cannot get here
if you don't have it.
You cannot have a deal if you cannot.
If you don't have a relationship with Allah.
And again, the relationship can be from simple,
Just bear witness
to a person who 24 7 think of
Allah. If you don't have this
very unlikely will end up having a son.
Some of their work that's why please forgive
me. The more you are in leadership,
the opportunity to be corrupted.
I can't tell you.
It is there, and everyone is doing it.
And you have to stay steadfast. And if
you don't change, then Allah is number 1.
That's easy said.
Unless you have him in your life and
he will protect you, will pull you out
before you slip or he will open the
opportunity for you to strip away
from what this is. But he's not gonna
do it unless you start.
Unless you put him number 1 in your
life.
That's your son.
So I hope I made it very easy
and clear for
you. Each one of you go home today
and write it on a piece of paper
and put the date.
And say, today,
25th or 20 what's today? 25th
April. 25th April,
my relationship will all engrave your relationship.
A lot. She is.
Now I make me better than what you
think.
You grade your relationship with
And you to to make your grading easy,
there's couple of
things. Practical.
Reality. Not words. I'm not gonna say big
words.
Number 1, where are you with the salah?
Don't tell me you have a relationship with
Allah and your salah is not there.
Big imams, they struggle. As Said Ali said,
if I know Allah accepted 2
units of salah from me, I want to
die.
So where are you in your salah? Is
it the last thing after you do everything?
It's like, oh, 2 minutes left for.
Then Allah is the last thing.
So look at your salaf.
Look at your relationship again. I don't know
any one of you I'm saying in general,
but I know what youth
are exposed to. May Allah protect you.
What's your relationship with Halal?
Don't answer me. That's for you.
Else is doing. But tell me about Hassan.
You didn't see a law in the decision.
Did you get the point? Once once you
see a law in every step getting married,
why did you get married to this person
or to that
girl? Well, I love her. You didn't see
Allah.
You saw your
He's not a physician. I said, really?
Is that the reason? Is that what I
was saying?
Honestly,
very nice family, amazing young girl.
And I was quite so comfortable. How a
lot does this one reality comes in.
Or I don't want her because she wears
her hijab.
Breathing, and you tell me you're a good
Muslim?
So here you go. Every step in your
life, including
the coffee. Why did I buy this coffee
at 5 PM? How much does this cost
me? I'm not this is real.
Don't get sucked in
to what everybody else is doing.
I took you with me to us.
You will not put this in your mouth
because this will save a family for a
month. Unless I feel for the others,
even if I am not from them or
among them,
then I what what what is Islam? What
are you talking about?
I need to prepare for the stuff.
I took my niece for for shopping.
I said, let's find it. I said, why?
Do you need it?
He said, no. I said, no.
Right. So, again,
practically,
see a law in every step. I wanna
give some time for discussion.
So in every step in your life,
you're gonna have
as you're making decisions, yes or no,
is never you see you.
You always see a lost.
As you see a lost
everything at this stage, then you are learning
how to do with the Islam.
Then when you come to leadership,
Islam and leadership. What is leader? You're a
leader to somebody.
Family,
company.
And I say whatever it is,
the first question if you are a person
of Hassan is
what?
Why do you wanna be a leader?
Why do you wanna be an MSA president?
Why? I always ask people. All the medical
students ask me, I wanna go to mess
I wanna go to OID. I said, why?
And the young boy, I love him. Ahmed,
he's 14.
Okay. Great. Why?
Because I wanna help people.
I said, why don't you be a garbage
man?
Fool me.
Tell me why you wanna be a physician.
This is you need to be why you
wanna be a leader?
Leadership brings a lot of
dunya. A lot of
good feedback. You know? I I tell people,
you wanna be arrogant? Be a physician.
The profession itself
inject
in you without you knowing elements. I don't
mean you, but here I am. It's in
there. Absolutely.
Everyone tells you whatever you
say.
Right? Everybody in your office, the patient. Or
why if it was not you, you had
the Torah, I would have the it's not
me. It's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So unless
you have this Islamic knowledge that keep reminding
you. So when you want a leadership position,
why?
Why? Why do you wanna be a CEO
of a company?
Why?
To help Muslims. Really? Show me.
And all the shaitan lure you in giving
you
excuses
that you are not. You don't even do
it on your daily basis.
So the second question is always why.
So the first question is this is pleasing
to Allah. Number 2 is why.
If you say I like it,
that's not for Allah. That's you. Nafs mean.
We're talking that the Imam Al Khazali. He
is the psychologist of Islam. That's your mess.
Why you wanna do it? To please my
parents. That's for people. It's good, but that's
for people. That's not for
Allah. Or it's a good job. It's gonna
give me a good income. That's for dunya.
So you have to be in Islam again
every decision. Why do you say no to
this?
I'm like, I'm not interested.
Right? So now after I see this, I
was like, my niece actually didn't apply for
Georgetown. Now I'm gonna go home and say
why?
Why didn't? Because normally the the answer, I
know. Where is the rate of this,
university and with in colleges?
What is it? What number? What is it?
I don't know. But that's what they all
look at. Right?
But that's not pleasing to all. If I
was applying for a college, the first thing
I would look at is what is the
MSA?
How strong is the MSA in this university?
Right? What's the closest month to do this?
What's the rate of the crime in there?
What is the the rate of hate crime?
Can I practice my then you are acting
that sound?
I hope this is clear for everybody.
Simple?