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We continue with the.
This is the the book,
or the section regarding the etiquettes of how
to travel.
Muslim sunnah way of how to travel
and how a person can garner the,
maximum spiritual benefits from from from the way
that they travel. The
specific chapter with regards to the recommendation to
leave the house
on
a Thursday
and the recommendation
to,
leave in the beginning of the day.
So in the cabin
who narrates that the prophet set
out for the the
the expedition of Tabuk
on a Thursday. The exped expedition of Tabouk
is,
a follow-up after the battle of Mu'tah. Mu'tah
was a a battle in which Rasulullah
sent to dispatch an army
to fight the Romans who were encroaching on
the Arabian Peninsula,
and that army was under the command of
Zayd bin Haritha Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu, who was
in Jahiliyyah, the adopted son of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. He was such a close
companion of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Had
he survived the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he
may have been even his Khalifa.
And,
so he set him as commander of that
army. And then after him, he set,
should he fall,
say,
Jafar bin Abi Talib, who is the brother
of Sayed Ali radiAllahu anhu, and the person
physically resembled the prophet, sallallahu alaihi salam, closely.
And,
then after him, should he fall,
Sayidna Abdullah bin Rawaha,
Radhi Allahu Ta'ala Anhu. So all 3 of
those commanders were Shaheed Fisabilillah
in that battle.
And the flag fell from the hand of
Said Nasid bin Haritha
And, Abdullah bin Jafar took it and, he
was given the lakab of a tayar
because it was seen in dreams that of
him flying through Jannah. That his two arms
were
amputated,
from losing them in battle. That he one
arm was carrying the flag and it got
cut. And he held the flag with the
other arm and it got cut. And then
he literally
held the flag with his teeth,
until he until he fell on the battlefield.
And then Abdullah bin Rawaha received it.
And so in place of his, amputated arms,
he had wings and he he he flew
and was ascending through the Muqamat of Jannah.
Abdullah bin Rawaha afterward, he hesitated
momentarily before going forward in battle, and that's
why it was seen as
were flying
faster than he was flying behind the 2
of them.
And then after that,
Amr bin Asr
who was a new convert,
to Islam,
and he was
a a a a a a genius of
strategy, a very eloquent man, and a very,
very intelligent man of Quresh. He had recently
defected,
from Quresh and and taken up the deen
and, accepted Islam.
And because of his new Islam, he wasn't
put as a commander in the army, but
because the appointed commanders of the Messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, all of them fell.
1 by 1, the Sahaba
decided because he was a very competent and
able person, they decided to make him commander.
And so what he did was he took
the rest of the Muslim forces and they
retreated because the Roman armies
crack elite force very difficult to fight.
And so they did they did a tactical
retreat.
And then what he did was he ordered
by the nightfall, he ordered the Muslims at
each of them to
gather wood, firewood.
And each one of them make a fire
in order to make it look like because
the scouts of the Romans wanna see how
many of them are there.
They wanna make it look like there's 10
times the number of people because usually you
only light a fire for 10 men.
And then after that, he, ordered them in
the day in the,
when the day broke to march around the
mountain in and out of the sight of
the of the Roman army. So it looks
like there are more and more in reinforcements
coming
to demoralize the Romans.
And so the Romans actually retreated from there.
And so the Sahaba radiallahu anhu, it's very
interesting that when they came back to Medina
Munawara,
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam wept for the
people who who were
shahid in the path of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala. And he went and visited and consoled
the family of Jafar bin Abitalib
and, of of Zayd bin Haritha and the
other Shuhada.
And the the Madani people were somewhat,
irritated with, Amr bin Aas radiallahu in Hawaii
because you should have also fought and you
should also been shaheed like the rest of
them.
And Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, in fact,
he didn't he didn't agree.
And he, he said to Amr that you
did what you did, what you did was
right. The idea is that a person should
sacrifice for the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala and be ready to sacrifice for the
sake of Allah Ta'ala.
But the goal of that spirit is not
to not to just lose for no reason.
That if you have an objective, you set
out of your home to do something, the
attainment of the objective is the goal. And
then in in that process, if for whatever
reason you should fail,
or you should be killed or you should
suffer some sort of loss, then that's something
that's accepted by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But
the failure shouldn't be an objective in and
of itself. And I think that's one of
the problems with a lot of weird,
screwball groups in the in the world nowadays
that are ready to go out and just
blow themselves up and whatever. They have no
objective in mind in the first place. They're
not doing anything. There's no rational way a
person like that can think how how Islam
and the Muslims are going to benefit from
this. They just said, well, you know, we
already lost, so what the *? And just,
you know, and that's what it is. It's
just what the *. That's where it begins.
That's where it ends.
There's no there's no,
glory and glamour in it and there's no
reward in it. It's just, makes life difficult
for everybody and it will make the hereafter
difficult for themselves and Allah protect us from
them. That's why it's important to attend dars
and things like that. There are many people
who have a lot of excitement with regards
to deen,
but because they don't understand it, they end
up doing more harm to themselves and to
others than than than than benefit
and had they sat and listened. Right? Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wasalam actually praised Amr bin Az.
He actually saved the rest of the army
and the objective which was what? To check
the advance of the Roman army into the
into the, Arabian Peninsula. They said these pea
they thought these people fought so hard and
now they have all these re
reinforcements. And there's so many of them. And
Arabia is like a godforsaken place according to
the rest of the world. Right? It's nothing
there but desert. There's nothing there to steal
or jack. Even today, nobody would care about
it if it if it wasn't for oil.
So they just said, you know what? Just
leave it alone. Leave it alone as long
as they stay there. The next year, the
Khazu of Tabuk after the after the battle
of Mu'tah,
because imagine that he took it very personally.
He himself
gathered an army and this was the most
prepared army that the Muslims ever had.
Every other
time, you know, things like that, it was
very like they had to scramble an army
at the last minute, or or with very
little preparation.
The Battle of Tabuk,
was an army in which there were it
was an army in which there was announcements
made in Madinah Munawara and from all the
places where the Muslims lived that come forth,
prepare, everyone should bring a riding animal, everyone
should bring their proper arms, armament, armor. The
the wealthy amongst the Muslims donated for those
people who couldn't afford to,
bring the proper, the horse and the the
arms and the armor
that they donated money for those soldiers then
to to be equipped properly so that this
army could go and face the,
face the Romans. It's not like they just
said, this is the messenger of Allah. We're
just gonna walk on the battlefield and, like,
you know, like, twirl the stick like a
magic wand and the angels are gonna just,
like, you know, whatever, like some sort of
video game,
rain down fire onto the battlefield.
Those things those things happen, but then what
do we need you for?
If the angels are doing all the work,
then why are you and me gonna show
up your and ask to go to Jannah.
Right? The angels are already the angels.
So, you know, there's there's wisdom in everything.
At any rate, rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam
tabuk was something that he meticulously planned.
And, and,
there's, like, there's a lot of history with
regards to it, but
used to love going out on on on
on Thursday. When he would go on a
trip, he would plan to leave on Thursday,
and he left for the razua of Tabuk
on a Thursday.
And a lot of those best with the
Hikma,
of it may be one of the things
that comes to my mind is the barakah
of of Jummah.
That one, if you're traveling, then the Jumuah
is not.
But the of Jumuah are very, very helpful
and very necessary for people.
Some of the greatest,
battles,
of the history of Islam, they took place
on Fridays.
The battle of
which
is, the battle in which the Mamluk Turkic
slave king army,
they they they they,
gave the first defeat in the open battlefield
to the Mongols.
Imagine the they went all the way from
Mongolia all the way to,
Palestine,
and they're about to invade Egypt. They literally
swept the entire Asian continent without being defeated
in the battlefield.
So, you know, and
and the the the the Mamluk slave slave
king armies
of Egypt, they were like, no.
This is it. It's gonna stop here. Because
the the Mamluks, the slave kings that rule
over Egypt, they themselves are Turks who are
like cousins of the Mongols.
So they have very similar battle tactics. They're
similar abilities.
They ride horse very well, both armies. They,
they have very accurate,
archery skills.
They're they're master tacticians. They they strike hard
and they move fast.
And so they said that, yeah, these guys,
you know, we're not gonna let them we're
not gonna let them destroy Syria and destroy
Egypt, like they destroyed the Muslim lands of
Central Asia. When the you know, Imam Bukhari
and Tirumidi and all these Nessa
and and Tirumid, all of these different cities,
these were great centers of learning culture in
the Muslim world literally decimated to the ground.
Even plants were not left alive.
They were burned in such a way that
that stone was not left on top of
another stone. Buildings, everything was destroyed.
And so these cities, they still exist in
and
and Tirmiz and all these. These are all
all the original people of them all died
and people re you know, different people came
and re inhabited them and repopulated them.
And in many ways, the culture of those
that Central Asia, much of it
had to flee and seek refuge in India.
Because India was also,
ruled by Turkic slave kings
and, they also they also held their own
against the against the Mongols in battle. So
at any rate, the battle of Ain Jalut
is the first defeat that was given to,
given to the the Mongols in the open
field.
And that was the advice of the ulama
to,
say who
was the the the the the the commander
of that army
That wait until after the hour of has
passed.
Even though because they're in the path of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, neither Jumayah is is
obligatory on them,
nor are are are they gonna pray it
anyway. But because they wanted to have the
help of the duas of the people, because
everybody knew that the the the this army
is going out, if it gets defeated, then
all of North Africa will probably come under
Mongol rule as well. And they don't let
people go. They kill everybody.
And so it was a danger for the
existence of Islam itself. That if they decided
to turn south and then destroy the sack
of Haramain Sharifin, there's nobody to defend them
afterward.
But Allah Ta'ala was there to defend them.
So they literally waited for waited for the
the sacred hour of Jum'ah to pass so
that duas of the people were with them.
And by Allah ta'ala's help,
you know, the the the Turkish commanders lured
them into
into such a trap that,
that they they completely got decimated.
And it was such a shock.
The the the the the Khan,
Ulegu, who is the commander of that army.
Although he wasn't personally there in the battle,
he was revered. In fact, Ulegu becomes in
Persian and Arabic, it becomes Halaku, which is
not actually his name. Halak in the Arabic
language means like destruction, like killing and destruction.
They gave him the nickname because it was
it was spelled very similarly. The gaf and
the kaf are written the same in the
in the old Persian orthography.
So they gave him the nickname because of,
like, how crazy he was, like, how many
people he had killed. He'd sacked Baghdad, which
was the seed of the caliphate. People were
in shock. They thought the was happening. This
is how crazy this guy was.
And, for him to, for his army to
fall into a trap and and literally only
a couple of people were sent to to
carry the the message. They were spared in
order to send back the message of how
bad the defeat was.
It was such a sadma and it was
such a
a blow to the prestige of the Mongol
armies that they quarreled with one another and
they started to fight with one another after
that. That there was one of the the
Mongol commanders,
his name was Berke. He took the the
the Muslim named Baraka. He accepted Islam, and
he actually had the the the the the
gallant to rebel against,
his
his cousin, Hulaku,
and actually contest the the the the the
leadership of
of of of the Mongol hordes in the
West. And it completely, like, they never rebounded
from that that that the how hard that
that that defeat was again afterward.
And afterward, most of the Mongol commanders will
start to accept Islam as well.
And,
what was it? It was perhaps
best with the the reason is for the
Thursday, but one of the things that that
I think it may be also is that
it it helps a person by, garnering the
barakat of of of Jumuah
and whatever,
suffer that people went out to. And these
are they didn't used to go and suffer
for vacation. Either you're gonna visit the house
of Allah Ta'ala or you're going to seek
knowledge or you're going to,
go out in in the path of Allah
ta'ala.
1 Sahabi
So.
Gamed is a a a clan of ASD.
ASD is a very large,
is a very large, tribal confederation of, of
the Arabs.
And so, Rammed was
his name was Amir.
And the reason he received the name Ahmed
is because as the tribe tribal confederation of
Az did they had beef between them.
It fractured into several competing different groups and
they all they all fought with one another.
And, he,
he took the different, warring sides
and he, made between
them. So he he,
he he he packs up things between them
and got the tribe back together again and
stopped them from infighting.
So,
they call him because the the the the
anger and the war and the infighting from
before
who is like he drowned it out.
There's a a a a a joker
individual
who takes the name Saeed Ahmed Rammedi, and
he's neither Saeed nor is he Ahmed nor
is he Rammedi. He actually took the name
just like as a stage name, and he
was a stooge of the, the the the
military dictatorship of.
Alhamdulillah. Alla ta'ala be praised to rid,
the Darul Islam of it. And,
he now makes the rounds in America because
he's banned in Pakistan because he gave all
these kind of ridiculous fatwas to make the
military government happy. But the problem is they're,
like, completely against,
they're completely against Ijma'at ulama, and he did
he's basically a hadith rejecter and weird guy
who gives weird fatwa. You don't have to
pay zakat because you already pay taxes and
all this other stuff. So, you know, I
guess you don't have to pay as many
taxes anymore either because,
the senators is about to rob the, the
exchequer drive, but, we
digress.
So this was a real
was a descendant of this,
who is, the
the. And, he said that the prophets of
the messenger of Allah, sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,
he made dua,
allah, put barakah in my ummah in its
mornings.
And Rasulullah, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, if he
was going to send out a a detachment
or an army, he would often send them
at first thing in the morning.
Uh-uh. Why? Because there's Baraka at that time.
And,
this
hadith, he was a businessman. He's a tajr,
a trader, and he also used to be
very meticulous that whenever he did any business,
he would start out early in the morning
at the cracker, basically right after Fajr is
right after praying Fajr. And,
Esra
Saradhar Saradharwatin. He he became wealthy.
To Esra
and his, his his wealth became plentiful.
This is another thing. It's really bad.
What do we do? After Isha, we hang
out and we talk. It's not a good
it's not a good thing.
Our parties, if we wanna have them, we
should have them earlier.
People should go to sleep right after right
after Isha. That that's the type of the
time of sleep that's the most restful. And
then people should wake up the next morning
from Fajr. If you feel sleepy, then take
a nap later in the day. But people
should try to do that, the the Fajr
to,
Fajr to Isha schedule. In the summers, it's
not as easy because the night is shorter,
so you take a nap longer.
But, this whole thing of hanging out
at night afterward, it makes people miss fajr,
first of all,
and it precludes them from ever being able
to read the Hajj. Nobody is achieved any
Maqam with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
except for by reading the Hajj.
Nobody, any person who thinks that they're Sufi
or as one of the Salihin or Salafi
and they follow Salaf. The Salaf, they used
to wake up for Tahajjud.
The Sufis, they used to wake up for
tahajjud.
Everybody used to wake up, nobody wake up
for tahajjud anymore. It's comical how you wake
up for tahajjud then your problems get solved,
and then the next day you're like, yeah,
I'm tired.
If you don't go to sleep right after
Isha,
you're probably not gonna wake up for Fajr.
There's a good chance you're not gonna wake
up for Fajr except for with great difficulty
and you'll muddle through your Fajr.
Whereas, if you're going to sleep at 8
o'clock, I mean, you get a straight, 8
hours of sleep after 8 o'clock and you
still have an hour and a half to
pray tahajjud before before,
the,
Fajr comes in.
That's the proper schedule.
And more than that, or or on top
of that, I should say, is that the
Baraka is in the early morning. When you
study, that's the that's the most time. When
you do some business, that's the most time.
When you do some work, that's the time
that Allah targets, more done with less. But
but guess what? The whole Pakistan, the whole
India, the markets don't even open until, like,
11 o'clock.
If you show up at someone's shop at
10:30,
they'll probably be sitting there eating their breakfast.
They'll like drink tea with you. They don't
sell you anything.
Whereas what? Those places that are heavily influenced
by the Brit like Lahore, for example, Karachi.
The markets all open late. The places where
the British didn't rule directly. Right? The the
the the the places,
in the in the in the, north
where the Patans are or the places where
the Balocha are or the places where the,
for example,
rural areas that weren't so heavily influenced by
the the British, still the markets are open
after Fajr.
Why? Because
of.
Right? You don't have to have the business
open 247.
The idea with people was what? You have
you know, they had a completely different way
of life. All the people who sell shoes
are in one line. All the people who
sell pots and pans are in one line.
Everybody knew how much money they needed to
get their household expenses done. Once they got
their money, they closed up the shops so
that their brother could also make a living.
If you have a a community like that,
will people care for each other? Yes. If
people care for each other, are you gonna
have as many drive by shootings? Are you
gonna have as many, like, theft? Are you
gonna have people, you know, outsiders gonna come
come in and be able to mix it
up and, like, dispossess you of your land?
Absolutely not, because you got each other's back.
And everybody's happy. There's enough to go around.
It's just that when when people do things
stupid in a stupid way and waste their
resources,
then there's not enough resources left over. And
when you have to compete for those things
that were plentiful and you screwed them up
yourselves as a poem out of bad habits,
I shouldn't say you, I should say me
and we,
out of our bad habits, then people will
instead of collaborating with one another, then people
are gonna try to backstab one another.
And individuals may become very powerful, but as
a community,
everybody is going to become weak.
But Rasool Allah, that's
that's his,
his sunnah is that things should be done
early in the morning. Trust me. I'm the
last guy who was like, I'm not a
morning person. When morning person say stuff like
this, then you're like, yeah. Sure. It's easy
for you to say that. I'm not a
morning person.
I'm I'm, very much a night owl. The
thing is though, the problem is it works.
And I've experienced it myself as well. And
if it's not easy to do, you have
to work hard in order to maintain that
that,
that schedule. Sometimes people accuse you of being
antisocial.
This comes to another,
important precept with regards to your,
saluk, which is what?
Don't ever, feel ashamed or apologize to anyone
for not wasting time.
If someone wants to waste your time,
say no. And if they try to guilt
you guilt trip you about it or say
something to you about it, it's your problem.
Never apologize about using your time wisely. It's
the only thing you have. It's the only
resource Allah gave any any one of us.
Use your your use your time wisely. If
it's difficult to get onto the schedule, it's
still worth it. Do what you can to
get get get on the the the schedule
of the sunnah.
So this is the
chapter with,
regards to seeking company
and seeking leadership,
for people over themselves,
from someone that they that they will follow
their orders, someone that they they they can
obey.
This means what? That one of the one
of the signs or one of the the
traits of a leader,
it's not only piety and righteousness and knowledge
and competence. Those things are all important as
well.
One of the traits of a leader is
also that he's somebody that's like, obeyable.
Somebody who is really good at what they
do, really smart, really pious, but they're completely
disagreeable in their disposition.
How are people gonna abate such a person?
So somebody who is in a position of
leadership should also do themselves and do other
people a favor as well,
not be so harsh with everybody
all the time, lest somebody who is less
competent be put into leadership and the people
suffer because of that as well. So if
you want someone to apologize to you, you
should also have your door open and, like,
you know, not make it difficult for them
to apologize. If you want someone to listen
to what you say, then try not humiliating
them every time they listen to what you
say. I I I I'm, like, I'm I
don't even wanna say I'm preaching to the
choir. I feel like everybody here in the
room is, like, relatively nice people. This is
advice I'm giving to myself. So
it's alhamdulillah, it's a thing at any rate.
Allah
give us
He said that the messenger of Allah said,
if people knew,
with regards to being alone what I know,
then no rider would have gone out at
for a night alone.
Meaning what? A night is not like a
long time.
It's literally like half a day.
That if you knew, what I knew about
the perils of being alone, then nobody would
have even gone out alone at night.
Why?
There are so many reasons. Like, looks okay.
You guys, but
go ahead and tell me what's the reason.
What's the first thing that comes to your
mind? Why is it why would Rasoolullah
say this? It's dangerous. What else?
Shaitan will come to you. Shaitan will come
to you. Someone Shaitan comes to him anyway.
Yeah. Even more could come even with with
with even harder game. What else? Easy to
get robbed. Easy to get robbed. It's easy
to get jacked.
What else? It's hard to it's hard to
navigate at night. It's hard to navigate at
night. I read something in the,
commentary,
which made me feel so ashamed.
Like, look at the difference between our elders
and look at the difference between us. The
first, you know, the first thing that he
mentioned
Said if you're alone, how are you gonna
pray in congregation?
I was like, oh, man. It's tough for
a lot. I wasn't even thinking about that.
I was thinking about getting jacked and getting
robbed. You know?
Because I was thinking about my money. Those
people were thinking about what? They were thinking
about their salat.
That was the most important thing. They were
thinking about their salat, and why wouldn't they
the salat is the most important word that
a person has the salat if a person
does it correctly and does it well. The
accounting on the day of judgment will go
well. And if it doesn't go good, then
the rest of it's not gonna go good
either. So I read that. I was like,
oh, man. I felt really ashamed real you
know, because that's the way we should have
been thinking about it, but I I got
you guys are all pious people. You probably
were thinking about it. I didn't even think
about it until I read it. And then
afterward, he says all the other all the
other good stuff about, like, you know, a
person might get robbed and they might lose
their way. And if they need help, they're
not gonna have anybody to help them. They
could get stuck in a bad situation and
things like that. Right? Hey, Counsel. Yes. Can
you go back a little bit? You see
what was the question again? Why shouldn't we
go out at night? Why why why what
what are the dangers of being alone?
All the dangers of being alone. Why would
Rasulullah tell
us tell us or warn us against being
alone?
And and the you said they they replied
because they've caused a lot?
That's that's the the the the commentator. 1
of the even Alaa and the commentator on
this hadith, he said the first reason is
because if you're out alone, you can't pray
in congregation.
Yeah. Yeah. And then afterward, he mentions all
the other stuff that you you're pray to
Shaytan,
you're pray to spiritual,
getting spiritually jacked and also, you know, physically
your wallet jacked as well in this dunya.
If you're alone, you don't have anyone to
back you up or help you out. If
you get lost, you have no one to
help you find your way. If you get
hurt, you have nobody to, you know,
you're just alone.
You're easy prey.
And there's a lot of there's a lot
of, both practical
drawbacks and spiritual,
drawbacks as well.
Because imagine,
everybody here is so pious.
If anyone of us were to commit a
sin, what would we do? Would we like
be like, yeah, okay, like,
who's gonna go whatever get drunk after Yad
Vasalihin?
No one would do it. If they're gonna
do it, they're gonna hide and do it
alone separately.
Right? So what is the the the the
solution to that?
If that's an issue, then don't spend time
alone.
There's so many sins there's so many sins
that that Shaitan comes to the person's hadith
of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, that that
that stay with the stay with the jama'ah,
stay with the the the the congregation, the
gathering of the Muslims because the the wolf,
shaitan, the wolf,
shaitan will,
attack the stray,
the the sheep that strays from the herd.
Why? Because if shaitan tries to jump in
the middle of herd, like like,
3 sheep, like, charging the shaytan and hitting
it 1 or hitting the wolf and hitting
it 1 after the other, it's gonna kill
the wolf or put it out of commission
or, like, you know, put a cramp in
its style at the very least. Whereas the
stray one, the wolf can kill it before
the rest can get get to it to
help. So it can kill it, bite it
in the neck, kill it, bleed it, and
then run away. And then the other sheep
will be like,
this is bogus, the sheep is dead, but
they'll leave eventually, and they come back and
eat it.
And that's the same that's the same thing
that that that happens with us. And it's
not just a physical
thing that happens. It's a spiritual thing that
happens as well. It's a it's a that's
those thoughts they assail a person when they're
when they're when they're alone. And so people
who are feeling
people are feeling doubts in their iman, people
are feeling down.
Of course, we're sitting in the Khalil Center.
Some of these things, they get go so
far that they they require clinical intervention.
But there's a a clinical definition of of
depression, and then there's, like,
normal depression that every human being goes through.
Sometimes that normal depression,
it goes so far that it requires clinical
intervention, but, like, 85% of the time or
whatever,
it's not that far.
You can help yourself by coming in the
company of other people. And Chetan, what happens
that these are like psychological issues.
Shaitan will exacerbate it. Just like when a
person you're a pure doctor
Sami Masha Allah, you're, whatever,
you know, providing people with antibiotics or whatever
doctors do. Right? Is this not true that
people carry with them diseases sometimes that lie
dormant in the body, and then when the
body becomes weak, then they pop up and
they hit you. Right? So that happens also
with Shaitan as well.
There are things that a per person, you
know, like the there's things that are, like,
they're dormant inside of you, and they're waiting
for you for your moment that you have.
You're the weakest and you have the least
resistance against them spiritually.
And then Shaitan will get up on you
on that time. Because if he tries to
mess with you while you're, like, all namazed
up in Ramadan mode, they'll look at their
with your, like, bakkora on one hand and
ruevs on the other hand, you know, he's
not gonna get nowhere with it. He's gonna
have to wait till he's gonna have to
wait till,
you know, you're till you're down and you're
all these other things. So when you walk
into the when you, you know, when you
walk into the Dars where the hadith of
the prophet is read or the or the
vicar of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is being
made, These are places where where, you know,
you have the the protection of, like, the
flock around you. And literally, the hadith of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam with regards
to,
there's a long hadith with regard narrated by
Sahih Muslim with regards to,
the the benefits of
making dhikr and the benefits of the gatherings
of dhikr,
literally. Right?
And so the the
the Rasul sallahu alaihi wa sallam when he
narrates that it's the angels they witnessed that
gathering and then they have a conversation with
Allah ta'ala about it.
And finally, Allah
says my angels bear witness that I I,
accept from them and I, forgive their sins
and all of these other things. And then
the angels bring up an objection.
The last thing is they bring up an
objection. They say, oh, so and so was
there and he wasn't there for, like, out
of your love. He wasn't there for sincerity.
He was there for some other reason. And
what does Allah to Allah respond to them?
He says,
Those are such a people, the even the
ones that that that sits with them, that
person will never be unhappy.
They'll never be wretched.
So that's a that's I mean, the hadith
is it's a good bet. Don't separate yourself
out and then afterward be like, oh my
god. Like, I don't, you know, believe in
I don't know if I can believe this
anymore and I can't this and I can't
that anymore.
These things are true I mean,
these things are to some degree, they're also
choices that we make as well. Don't live
in, like, some weird community and, like, the
backwards note middle of nowhere if your iman
is weak.
Right?
With captain Barbarossa, he keeping it real, man.
He's like he's like the lighthouse over there.
He's generating so much newer people from miles
around can see it. Right? But if you're
not in that howl,
if you're like, you know, your iman is
dangling by a thread, you know, it may
be time for you to, like, you know,
get an apartment next to next to, like,
MSI or whatever. Why?
Because,
because that's that's it. Right? The is on
one side. Is on the other side. You
know, the uncles got you covered for, for
Fajr and and and Isha,
and, you have help.
You have someone to back you up. You're
not alone anymore.
This is also another reason why the ulama
classically didn't used to look look, favorably on
people leaving Dar al Islam.
Many of us, we had no choice. We're
just born here. What are we gonna do?
Right?
But classically, that's something that that the of
the they didn't used to look look favorably
on it. It's not because they hate hate
you and me.
It's a very practical there's a very practical
reason for it that the people the Adhan
is there, the Masajid are there, etcetera, etcetera.
When you're alone, you're especially prey.
And some people, Allah gives them a strength
that they can resist all of these things,
but not everybody. Most people, they they get
affected by people who are around them. If
you see that, don't waste your akhirah. It's
not worth it. Surround yourself with better company,
better people. Even if it means taking a
pay cut, it's okay. You know, Yo Muqiyama,
nobody's gonna be asking you for a 20.
Everybody's every you got $5 I can borrow.
Nobody's gonna be asking you got $5 I
can borrow. What are the people are gonna
be asking one another? Can I have a
get lost? Get your own
Can I have
a get lost? Get your own This one's
mine. I'm I'm gonna need it.
So don't don't don't don't waste your iman.
If if if you're in a perilous situation
and you're alone and stuff like that,
just go go wherever go wherever the Muslims
are and wherever you need to to shore
your iman up. You'll very quickly realize they're
not perfect,
but, like, disbelieving god is not one of
the things. They they may, like, you know,
sell you inferior, quality briyani or gyro.
But,
but, like, you know, throwing your mind in
the garbage can is not one of the
complaints that you're gonna have from them.
I love this. This is this is amazing.
Right? Rasulullah
that's the beauty of his words.
Eloquence is getting to the point,
not beating around the bush.
Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam wasn't blunt,
but he did get to the point. He
did it with style and he got to
the point.
He wasn't insensitive or whatever, but he got
to the point so people can understand. You
know, not everyone is the sharpest tool in
the shed. You know, if you tell someone
that there's like a,
then not everyone understands what you're talking about.
So sometimes you have to get to the
point. So now Amar bin Shoaib,
from his father, from his grandfather who was
Abdullah ibn Amarin, ibn al Asr
They narrate the hadith
that a a a rider a lone rider
is shaitan.
And 2 riders are shaitan 2 shaitans.
You know, shaitan. You're not being sensitive. Sorry.
Rasulullah sallahu alaihi wa sallam said it.
And he's right.
If you disagree, you're wrong.
So the lone riders,
a shaitan,
and the the the, the and 2 riders
are 2 shaitans,
and 3 riders are are like a group
of people traveling.
Meaning what?
Person who is alone, it's bad news for
him and he also it's quite possible he
may carry bad intentions
it's so stupid. You listen to the news
at CNN. You think the ISIS are some
sort of, like, criminal mastermind geniuses.
They're not. They just flood social media with
stupid messages, and there are people who really
need to just see someone at Khalil Centre,
or see someone, like, you know, who can
help them, like, with their with their with
their issues.
And,
instead they don't get that help, but because
they're Muslims, all of a sudden everything they
do is holy war.
And so someone just does something, like, you
know, some 17 year old kid does something
dumb, which is what 17 year old kids
do.
But they just didn't you know, they just
like, somebody, hit them with a particularly
stupid message at a particularly vulnerable time in
their life, and they didn't talk about it
with anybody.
Right? Why? Because if there are 3 or
4 people sitting around, they would have realized
when they look at each other's faces how
stupid of an idea this is.
But it's usually the individuals that that that
you get to. Why? Because shaitan attack attacks
the,
shaitan attacks the,
the the sheep that strays from the flock.
So Rasulullah
he said what? He said that that one
rider alone is shaitan
and 2 riders are 2 shaythans
and, 3 riders are are are like traveling
companions.
Hadith that the messenger, Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said.
When 3 people go out, on a trip,
then let them pick 1 of them as
a leader.
So the idea is 3 a big number
or a small number?
It's small. So the smallest number that's considered
a a a correct plural in the Arabic
language.
There's a discussion
as to whether to is plural or not.
Without getting into it, it's the the smallest
number that without difference of opinion
forms a forms a plural in Arabic language.
Is
a a a a
trip,
something that's permanent or transitory?
It's transitory. It's just ephemeral. It's
temporary. It's just it's for a short time.
So if it's important that
3 people on a trip, even them for
them, it's important that they should pick someone
to be in Amir. This is a sunnah.
If you go out in on a trip
that you should, amongst yourselves, pick someone to
be an emir.
Then then what about more than 3 people
and what about something that's more permanent than
than going out on a
trip? It's even more important.
Now this is the this is the problem
which is what? Which is that the egos
of people become so huge and intractable.
Completely intractable.
Nobody can accept the of anybody anymore.
Parents can't accept the of their, children can't
accept the of their parents anymore.
Youngers can't accept the of their elders anymore.
Wives cannot accept the imar of their husbands
anymore.
Students cannot accept the imar of their teachers
anymore. Nobody can accept any anybody
telling them, you can't tell me what to
do. Who's the though if you nobody tells
you what to do, then you're alone and
you're the one that shaitan gets easiest.
The people in the old days, the idea
of that someone is Amir and it's a
sunnah that someone's Amir, doesn't mean that that
person automatically turns into some sort of infallible
Nabi.
The understanding is that that person is human,
they are fallible, but having somebody as Amir
is still the benefits outweigh the
the,
outweigh the the harms. Why? Because when there
are 3 of you and there's Imara, then
you're together.
When there's no Imara, then there's 1, and
then another one, and another one.
There are 3 single Shaitans going together.
When you have an Imara between them
between you, then you're you're you're 1 Jama'ah
of 3 people.
When there's no Imara, then there's 3 separate
shaitans that happened to be, going together with
one another.
This is a really, really big deal. This
is a real big issue.
Nobody is going to listen to this at
a huge conference and there's nobody's gonna like
listen to this. There are suggest the people
who are here and the people who listen
to it, let them listen to it.
It's part of your your success as a
Muslim that you should be able to accept
the imar of another person even if that
person doesn't seem to be the most competent
or you feel like you have more hakta
the Imara than them.
This is not me making this up. This
is who said this Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
He told the Sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu that
a day will come. This is a hadith
narrated by Sidna,
Fatadah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
Who was one of the heroes of the
Ansari. He was like one of their tough
guys in battle. He was the guy when
they went for Umrah and stuff. He would
not go in haram. He would go plain
clothes be and he would be armed because
he was a security for the caravan.
He he visited Sayidina Muawiyah radiallahu anhu during
his caliphate once. Imagine Muawiyah radiallahu anhu accepted
Islam after the fact. The Sahaba, the Ansar,
the ones who were who, like, basically built
this whole thing up. The the the came
to them and that's when it started. As
a community, that's when Islam started as a
community.
They're the ones who were there from the
very beginning. And so he's visiting Sayidina Alaihi
Wa Ta'ala Anhu who is now Khalifa in
Damascus.
All of the Ansar to the
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They actually visited him. So say no,
said he said that how come that none
of Ansar come and visit me? And so,
Abu Kata says, because we don't have any
camels. So what happened to your camels? He
said, they got tired.
He said, why why did they get tired?
They said, they got tired chasing your father
first and then chasing you afterward.
They're all out of commission now. And so
is
like an absolute ruler. He could put him
to death for that, but that's not the
kind of person he was. The way he
dealt with his enemies, if you read the
history and things like that, the way he
used to dealt with deal with his adversaries,
you just give them money, keep by giving
them more and more money and, gifts and
things like that until they felt ashamed to
oppose him. It's a very successful technique and
it's actually cheaper than fighting a war, in
many cases.
So what happens is that that,
he he says to me, so I'll tell
you something else. Abu Khattala says to
I heard the messenger of Allah
say that,
one day, this affair, the leadership of the
Umma, meaning, this this affair will be put
in the hands of people who don't deserve
it. Meaning that there will be people who
are more deserving than them. What is he
saying? Is that we were here from the
beginning. How come you're ruling right now?
It was with respect. It's like they took
Bea with him. They accepted his Imara.
But he was telling him that that we're
the ones who are doing this thing from
day 1. And like, look, interesting how you
now you're Khalifa.
What did he say? He didn't say it
like that bluntly. He said what? He said
that I heard the messenger of Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Salam say, a day will come where
this affair will be in the hands of
the people who don't deserve
it. And then say them, what did he
say?
Well, that's what you think. That's your opinion.
No.
What did he say? He said, what did
Rasulullah
say then? What should do we do? What
should you do when when you see that
day?
He said that he told us to have
patience.
And, then said the said then have patience.
Meaning what?
Rasool Allah didn't say no. The now the
revolution is gonna go down and we're gonna
paint the town red and it's gonna be
red October and god knows what and, you
know, no.
He he says follow the Amir, the Imara
is there as long as it's there, follow
it. As long as they don't call you
to open kufra or abandon the prayer or
whatever.
Why? Because it's obvious to everybody this is
not the optimum situation,
but it's still better than than the chaos
where everybody their their unity breaks up and
everyone just becomes shayat in on their own.
So
this is the pro this is one of
the problems that we have nowadays. Okay?
What is the Farangi's,
like,
method of
destroying every place that he comes to?
It's divide and conquer. Playing people off against
one another and divide and conquer. Mathematically, what's
the logical
via the extreme form of divide and conquer?
How's the maximum you can divide people up
into?
Individualism.
I guess you could cut people into pieces
as well, but then there's nothing to rule
anymore. Who's gonna earn money so that, you
know, your corporation can get a tax break
afterward? Who's gonna buy your goods afterward. Right?
So you can't just kill people. The maximum
you can divide them up is into individuals.
This is listen to everybody very carefully.
This is why individualism is pushed down your
throat. It's not because of freedom. It's not
because of liberty. It's not because of the
pursuit of happiness. It's not because of any
of those things.
It's what? It is the logical extent of
divide and conquer.
When no two people and every person's becomes
so indomitable, so, like, irascible,
so intractable
that no 2 people can agree with one
another, that nobody, even husband and wife, can't
can't agree with one another.
Right? People who should love each other can't
can't, like, compromise and get over their their
issues, then what happens?
Right? When
children, you know, like, they can't get over
I mean, do you guys agree with everything
I say? No. Right? But we get along.
Right?
Why? Because we're a family. If we didn't
get along, it would be horrible.
She's honest kid, Michelle. She she's like, yeah.
Sometimes Baba says stuff and I'm like, what's
that all about? Right? But the thing is
that the if everybody if no 2 people
literally no 2 people can get along with
one another, then what happens?
Then the entire poem becomes a victim.
This is what it's a it's not about
it's so it's like, oh, look. He's bringing
his, like, weird patriarchal
backwards stone age thinking that's gonna make us
all become slaves to,
you know, some mullah somewhere and whatever. Trust
me, the days when people were slaves to
some mullah somewhere, that's when the Ummah used
to have some respect. People used to have
a good time. They they lived a very
beautiful life in those days. Right? What you
what you demonize like that, it wasn't that
bad. It was actually it was much better
than look at now everybody's an individual and
educated and whatever. And the Baghdad isn't the
Baghdad that used to be.
And the Damascus isn't the Damascus that it
used to be. The Cairo isn't the Cairo
that it used to be. The Lahore is
not the same. Lahore it used to be.
Right? These place Dili is not the same
Dili that it used to be. Why? Because
people can't get along with one another.
They hate each other. They they they they
they only thing more intense than their hate
for each other is their love for their
own nafs. How is anyone gonna go anywhere
with it? Whereas,
Rasulullah said, this is one thing, I
hand it to the.
There's been some hiccups lately. I don't wanna
get into it. But the point is, at
least with the small jamat that goes from
your local masjid.
Right?
As
much as they may not win the Imam
Ghazali and Fakhruddin Razi award for, like, sophistication
and, like, intellectual,
Islam or whatever. Right?
When you're going on Jamat from, like, MSI
to Villa Park or whatever, imagine if they
let the Jamats into Villa Park. Right? If
when you're going on Jamat from MSI to
Villa Park,
and there's, like, 5 of you, Farhan and
Ishma Humayun and
Shahir. Sorry. And and and Rafa and and
and,
Abdullah. Right?
Look, it's so it's Vanessa is so annihilated.
He doesn't even recognize his own name. Right?
Abdullah. Right? So when the 5 of you
are going on Jamat together, you're literally gonna
drive for, like, 7 minutes, 9 minutes, 11
minutes, or something like that.
What is it? You pick someone who's Amir.
They pick Rafa. Man, what is Rafay gonna
tell them in those 9 minutes to do?
What if he says go kill yourselves? It's
haram. Already the sharia has a fail safe.
You can't obey the the the the the
creation and and the disobedience of the creator.
Kill yourself as haram. We're not gonna do
that. And but you're still Amir, but we're
not gonna do that. Okay.
We're gonna fill up gas from Chevron instead
of from Shell.
But Chevron, it's, like, 2¢ more expensive, and
it sells Aquafina, whereas I like to buy
the Dasani water.
What is someone gonna die from that? What's
gonna happen?
Literally, it's there's almost no harm that could
happen from it.
Most of the time, no harm, but the
benefit what's the benefit? When you're together, the
worldly benefits aside, the from Allah subhanahu wa,
that's a big benefit. Just the fact that
the rest of them were prepared in their
heart and in their mind that that I'm
gonna step on my and I'm gonna follow
our Amir because this is the the the
the happiness of Allah and the, the of
Allah is in this in this act.
That Allah Ta'ala will be with me, Allah
Ta'ala has realized in this act.
It's not about doing it. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala asked Ibrahim Alaihi Salam to sacrifice Sayed
Ishmael Alayhi Salaam. Did he actually make him
kill him?
No. But the fact that he was ready
to do so, that he passed the test,
That's it. That people should be ready inside
of their hearts. That's why we have teachers,
we have our elders, we respect them. Someone
said, well, what what if someone, you know,
abuses their authority? Okay. And, if they're abusing
it, then we can talk about it.
The idea is that
one thing is if they abused authority, like,
you can talk about, okay, let's, you know,
like, wait for Rafay to, you know, go
to the bathroom and we'll just jump in
the van and take off.
That's, like, that's a problem still. There's still
oftentimes, people want to, like, rebel beef when
there's still remedies that are that that are
to be had if people are calmed.
What about us now? We're not even we're
not even, like, ready to entertain the possibility
that anybody else will have any sort of
Imada over us in the first place.
This is one of those things, you know,
you can read a 1,000 books about Islam
until you practice these things in the of
the, you'll never understand what they mean.
You can read a 1,000 books about Sufism
until you actually sit in the of the.
When you read a book about Sufism, it's
like King Arthur in Camelot
and, you know, unicorns and wonderful book things
about miracles and everybody's wonderful and it's nice.
When you're actually in the Hanukkah getting dressed,
drilled down by the by the the Nazim
and, like, you know, you want you're still
hungry and, like, they took the food away
and whatever,
then you're like, wow.
This is a lot more, real than than
we thought it was supposed to be. But
the barakah is in the realness. The barakah
is not in, like, you know, like, whatever
some sort of Lord of the Rings out
version of of of Islam.
Because that doesn't exist. It never existed.
You thought of it in a certain way.
It doesn't exist that way. This is a
thing people should practice these things.
You know? Just accept that fact that that
that one person even if it's the person
you detest the most, that the the the
of Allah is in being together and being
together, the sign of the togetherness of a
people is that they have that when they
move, they move as one. And the right
of a emir is that he should be
obeyed and the right of the Mamur, the
people who, are under the emirs that they
should be listened to.
All of these things we've forgotten how to
do them. So someone becomes boss at work.
Why? Because I have the money, I own
the company. Or because I'm the one who
got the raise, I'm the one who got
the promotion. They don't even listen to people
at work. Consequence, everyone at work hates them.
If the unit fails, it fails together.
If the business fails, everybody's out of a
job.
There's adab on the other side too. You
should listen. Parents, you should listen to your
children.
Husbands, you should listen to your wives.
Like, not just like, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Are
you done yet? But, like, no. Actually, like,
listen and think about it before making a
decision. You don't have to give an answer
today. You can give one tomorrow or, like,
in 2, 3 days.
People don't. Nobody the people, once they're on
top, you know, once they're on the bottom,
it's all about the revolution. Once they're on
top, it's all about,
you know, like, I earned this, I deserve
this, and, like, everybody else is jealous of
me. This is all, like, super, like, nafs,
gotten out of control. So what did Rasulullah
says that said he said that that,
the 3 that that that that
that if you 3 people go out on
a journey,
then let them
choose one of them, as an Amir.
And
if it's more than 3 people or if
it's something more permanent than a journey than
they should,
they should they should then also have a
leader.
This is one thing very I'll be honest
with you. This is something I've it hurts
me inside.
And I'm not I'm not, like, saying it
out of whatever.
The the ulama in any place they can't
get together and they can't pick in a
mirror amongst themselves.
It hurts me inside to say this.
And inshallah, Allah give all of us tawfiq
and give all of us hidayah.
Because if if they did,
then the people the people amongst them, anyone
who had any inside of them, they would
follow.
It's difficult that something affected every single of
society.
And and, you know, they they just just
can't just can't do it. We can't as
a Muslim community, we can't pick if we
well, if the Muslims in America, they will
pick someone as an Amir.
Right? Someone who at least believed in the
deen. Right?
And believe that the Rasulullah,
what he came with was the truth and
believe that what's in the Quran is true.
If we and we we fall we wouldn't,
as a community, get tossed around like we
get tossed around. We wouldn't get, jacked like
we we do from all sides.
Why? Because
anybody who wants anything from us, they know
every single man amongst us, every single woman
amongst us.
There is statistically,
going to be in, like, 5, 7, whatever
number of 1,000,000 of people, Muslims there are
in this country. There's gonna be someone who
will agree with everybody.
So you just sift through until you find
the person who's yes. I think pink lemonade
is the most important thing in Islam. And
class, you give that person a $100,000
a year and give them a nice stage
and make a nice sounding name for their
organization, the Islamic,
Supreme Council of the Islamic,
you know, Klingon Empire. And Khalas. That person
is now the president of it. And,
they'll be and they know that they can
interview them on Fox News. And what will
the Muslim community do? They'll be, oh, this
guy was on TV. Why don't we invite
them to our Masjid for the next fundraiser?
Why don't we invite them to our Masjid
for the next or, you know, our thing
for the next conference? Why?
Because we don't have any group amongst us
in the 1st place that we can say,
does this person even speak for us if
they do not speak for us?
So you have all of these talking heads,
some of them utter blasphemy on social media
daily. And and what happens, we accept them
as on social media daily. And and what
happens, we accept them as our leaders because
we don't have a group in the first
place. So they're not our leaders. They're just
people there's, like,
5,000,000 individuals. Each one represents themselves, and that
person seems to have gotten the spotlight. So
we think, oh, well, he's more leery than
the rest of us are, so we may
as well listen to what they have to
say. Now they become an important person in
the in the community.
Whereas that's that's, you know, that's ridiculous. North
Korea found an American who thought North Korea
was good. Right? Dennis Rodman.
I said, this is the leader of the
Americans. We're gonna negotiate with him on behalf
of America. Right? The government would be like,
this is a joke. Right?
You can have
him. You can keep him. They wouldn't get
anywhere.
Right? They wouldn't get anywhere.
Yes, ma'am? Is it is it is it
this practice of assigning a mirror, is it
good to to do it even with 2
people so you can check your own self?
I'm listening to what you're saying because sometimes
we
lie to ourselves. But if there's 2 of
us, 2 sisters, is it best to just
go the extra mile to just have 1
leader over if we're traveling together? With with
2 people, generally, the adab is that your
companions, that you just look out for each
other. Okay.
That that much,
you know, you just look out because it
becomes overbearing then. There's checks and balances. If
there's one person's a mirror and 2 aren't,
then, like, you know, the person who's giving
the commands is cognizant that, like, you know,
if the command becomes too ludicrous, I can
be over overwhelmed.
But, yeah, 2 people, the adab is you
just look out for each other show concern
for one another.
So the last hadith in the Bab Insha'Allah.
And this hadith is awesome. This hadith, like,
it's
a
person, Iman, should come into their into their
heart and flow through their veins when they
hear it.
And this is a glad great glad tidings
for people. Anyone who wants to do something
in the path of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
the help of Allah Ta'ala is there for
you. The prophet
said, the best companions
are 4.
If you wanna do something, get 4 of
you together and and do it. InshaAllah. The
help of Allah will be with you. And
the best detachments are 400.
Right? If you have some big project that
you want you want big task, if 400
of you are on the same page, the
help of Allah Ta'ala is with you. And
the best of armies are 4,000.
And Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalam said 12,000,
believers, 12,000 people of the ilaha illallah, they'll
never get together and do anything and failed
because of lack of numbers.
If they fail, it's gonna it's gonna be
because of lack of sincerity or lack of
obedience,
to Allah
or because something else was better for them.
But 12,000 people will never get together and
be frustrated from whatever they they're doing because
of lack of numbers or means.
Dude, there's like 12,000 Muslims in Chicago.
The problem is
and they all eat Giro Biryani but they
can't
agree on which Giro Biryani they want. So,
you know, enjoy yourself. Keep doing doing what
what we're doing and, like, see how far
it goes.
Otherwise, it's not like a huge number of
people.
And that's something that we need to do
if nothing else, if everyone is intractable, if
every man hates his neighbor,
you know, have kids, teach your kids, you
know, teach your 2 boys, love one another,
they'll become 12,000 soon enough.
You know what I mean? Whatever you can
do. And this is the thing. This the
the sad part is this is that
the person who learns a lesson and prepares
for it,
that person on the other side in the,
even if you're like, yeah, I see this
12,000 thing. Let's do it. And you're the
only one and nobody else shows up to
help you. You stick your hand out. Nobody
else takes you by the hand, in order
to do it. So I'm not even trying
to be no Amir. I'm just there. If
somebody wants to be my Amir, I'll I'll
put my hand in their hand and follow
them. But let's do so. Let's make the
world a better place.
Anything. Right? Because people always think about the
caliphate and I'm just like, dude, why don't
we try to make a mustard with a
clean bathroom? You know, let's start with a
good shoe rack and then build up from
there. Right?
Whoever whoever said, I'm ready. I'm ready. Whoever
wants to be my Amir, I'll follow them.
And nobody puts their hand out or someone
puts their hand out and they're insincere.
I'll be honest with you. My personal
personal experience is like that that I always
tried ever since I came back from Madrasa
and very contrary to my disposition in my
own, pre Madrasa training.
I always tried,
whenever somebody is there, if they want to
be a mirror, you be a mirror. I'll
just help you, and I'll work where you
work for you. And many people take that
as a sign of, oh, look. This is
like free slave labor.
Right? And this is a mas masulia. Right?
It's a responsibility with Allah.
Even if you stick your hand out and
nobody else takes you by the hand or
they take you by the hand and just
waste your time and abuse you, in this
world, the bad news in this world is
not gonna work out.
The good news is in the hereafter, you'll
receive the reward of what your intention was.
The thing is this world, it's it sucks
to fail in this world. I'll be honest
with you. It's not fun. Nobody likes it.
However,
the good news is that this world is
only temporary and that the hereafter will last
forever.
So someone might say, well, all this, talk
you're talking about, you know,
404,012,000,
all this stuff, but it's impractical. When will
all these people ever get together and whatever?
What I'm saying going to * forever is
very impractical.
So follow the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. The dunya is like a blink
of the night. When it's gone, it's gone.
Nobody will be able to get it back.
And the akhirah, we're all gonna be there
for forever.
The day of judgment is a day that
started, it never ends. Allah
gives so much tofir to all of us
to make good decisions for ourselves in this
world and the hereafter. You never know. You
know, sometimes you you try something and you
ask Allah for his help and, like, you
yourself are surprised how how did this ever
happen?
How did the help of Allah to ever
come? We never thought this was gonna make
it anywhere. We just said we're gonna do
this for the sake of Allah, of his
Mahaba, and look where it got.
Uh-uh.
You know, and a person should be never
surprised by the help of
Allah. It's done greater things than, you know,
stuff that we're trying to do. Allah to
give all of us so much tawfiq,