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Salawa
Hamdulillah. It is an honor for myself and everybody here. Who's
joining you here. I've had several requests for a long time actually
to do
Can I do a program with you or something with you. So here we are
a blessing. Thank you for thanks for having me. May Allah bless you
for all the work that you do for our community, tirelessly,
especially on social media, which is a platform, that's really
the way to reach a lot the young people and a lot of the
millennials and people who, especially at this time that you
can go anywhere, so people are stuck in the massages are closed.
So it's a good, medium and platform, so may Allah reward you
and give you strength to continue. Thank you, we are in need of your
dogs. I was just letting everybody know that we Inshallah, we're
gonna try to use the time that we have together to get a lot of
great insight from you, and then also try to address any questions.
So with that said, let's go ahead and begin because I know there's
people who are eager to hear from you. I don't think you need an
introduction. I personally don't you are very well known martial by
many people, but just in case there's one person on this live
who may not have heard of you before, can you just share some of
your background, your martial arts student of knowledge you've been
studying for as long as I've known you, but you also have a special
niche that you are globally known for? Can you please speak a little
bit about your background and monitor him?
Again, for having me on this platform, Allah reward you, bless
you, and may Allah reward and bless everyone who joined in into
them to this
program, we hope that it's beneficial first and foremost for
ourselves, for me, and our families, and then for everyone
who is attending and inshallah I, you know, Hamdulillah we are our
students, and we will remain student for as long as we live in
that the path of our tradition. So it's always, there's always a path
of learning. So it doesn't stop, there's no, there's not a point
where you say, You know what, I've learned enough, and I'm done. And
this is in then there are moments in your life when you read things
and you understand things and something comes in your head. And
then he looks at you, you look at your teachers and realize how
insignificant you are, and how little you know about anything.
And that's really what our tradition is about is about
centerline chain. So you're connected this chain that doesn't
give you arrogance, because it always keeps you humble, right but
it also gives you that there are more more to learn. So then then
you have that energy. I want to learn more because I know that
there's more to learn. I've been a I've been passionate about poetry
since I was a kid and it was something that I love that it
should memorize songs and poems like since I was like a little kid
and and in languages I didn't even understand what it was like, you
know,
I just love poetry but especially moulana Rumi's poetry Sadie
Shirazi, Halford Shiraz, the you know, ATOD, Nisha Puri, somebody
great Persian classic that the Afghans and Iranians and the
people in subcontinent Indians, not the young generation, but the
older generation, because when I meet a lot of the grandparents,
Indian, and Pakistanis, they all have the Saudi memorized and by
heart in Farsi, which is really amazing, because they learned it
as part of the curriculum in India. But anyways, I just had a
love for it. And I just wanted to learn it for myself. It wasn't
like I wanted to memorize a poem to tell somebody about it. I just
loved memorizing poetry. And it was something that gives me a lot
of tranquility and solace and a way of just going inward. Because
the world that I lived in grew up was very during the turmoil, it
was, it was always, you know, during war in Afghanistan and
migrating from one country to another country, from one nation
to another nation. And then you end up in a place like in America
where you don't speak the language you don't know the people you
don't know the religion, you don't know anything. And just to you
know, find your way in there was really difficult and it's still
difficult. It's not easy. It's not something that I can say, you
know, we have reached it, we are struggling our children are
struggling those who are born in this country. So poetry has been
something that cannot like,
made sense of the situation that I was in, like, whether it was
triumph, difficulties is victory, failure, all of them. The poetry
came and helped me out to get to make sense out of the situation.
So I love monana Rumi is my favorite poet. And I've been
trying to share what I learned. That's all it is like what I
learned from my teachers and from the books, I just want to share it
with people so they can they can benefit as I benefit from it.
Mashallah, for as long as I've known you, I've known this about
you. You have you're also an entrepreneur, you have a business,
named after Madonna Rumi, mashallah and you've globally
traveled to share his beautiful works, and we're eager here in the
US. I know many of us have seen you
In the UK and Australia, in different parts of the world,
Malaysia, you know, doing different programs, but I think
we're really eager, you have an audience here in the US to hear
from you. So that's why again, we're so appreciative of your time
today to thank you for your kind words, I'm really appreciating.
Thank you Now this topic of, you know, the value of time that which
we're going to talk about today, I really, really want your insights
from all that you've just shared with us about, again, paying
attention to what's going on around you, and how poetry can
find can help you find some peace. I love that perspective. But even
you know, that we have so many wisdoms in our tradition, that
really talk about the importance of time, the value of time and
there's one specific Hadith. I know you're very familiar with the
city. And I would love to go line by line with this hadith and get
your insights on how we can again, have some perspective with what
we're going through right now with this pandemic, with Ramadan around
the corner and a lot of people struggling to make sense of how to
you know, have have a peaceful or a good experience for this blessed
month coming in the situation that we're in. So I'm going to read the
Hadith and then I would I'll go ahead and just line by line ask
you to share your thoughts on it. So for everybody listening, this
is from the Muslim Imam Ahmed and prophesy Salam said in the
following Hadith, he said, take advantage of five matters before
five other matters. Your youth before you become old, your health
before you fall sick, your wealth before you become poor, your free
time before you become preoccupied, and your life before
your death. So this hadith again, so powerful, so much wisdom in
here. So if you will, please separate and take us through this
hadith. Let's look at this first line. With regards to youth before
you become old, please share some insights about for any, again, the
people who are listening right now who may be youth themselves or
have children any perspective you have to offer about the value
that's similar many of our scholars, if you look at the
traditional scholars as early and even coming to like her dad who's
very close to our era, who in in * Abdullah, Al Ansari, and even
Maulana Rumi, they all wrote about the subject of life and the
concept of life and concept of time, which is the essence of, of
the teaching of Islam. I mean, the Quran, if you look at the Quran,
there's constantly verses about time, about the heart about, you
know, also about you know, Fajr you know, while surgery while
alien ash Allah mentions the Fajr indented, you know, what are
these? These 10 Nights? What are the 10 days? What are the period
of us? Why is Allah swearing by us? Allah doesn't swear by
insignificant things. Like when you say Allah swear by the be
like, Why is Allah mentioning a B? Now we know what a b not we didn't
people didn't know. Some people knew that OER knew but the general
public, they didn't know like, what is it like? Subhanallah look
at the bee and what it does for creation, not just for the human
being, I'm not talking about just the honey being a Shiva healing.
And you know, a suite, but I'm talking about just just
pollinating and but anyways,
the first part of this hadith is, you know, youth is a is a gift
from God, if you only know it when you lose it. And this is the sad
thing that everybody you try to tell them because we missed out on
our use. And one of the thing that the mom had that says about in the
lives of men, he says that, just think about one thing Why did
Allah give you so much energy during youth he didn't give you
when you're a kid, he didn't give you your old. He gives you just
when you're a youth a young man, he gives you so much energy, like
you're just bursting with energy, right? He said there's only one
reason he gave you that because the reward during youth that you
can collect, you can collect it when you're old.
It's so much reward you can do you can do pay on the lathe when
you're young, and the reward is multiple times. Then when you're
all because see, the thing is here's here's the secret of young
and old.
The Persian poet said that Giovanni tuba Kardan has like a
table Marie's wanna her Gabriella Pirrie visa per his God. He said,
those youth young people who make Toba and in the prime of their
youth when they are young, they take on the characteristics of the
prophets.
He said let me tell you, even the fire worshippers when they get
old, they become righteous.
Because all these you don't have any energy to do any wrong. You
are 75 year old man
He's not welcome at the club anymore. Right? He's not walking
with the parties anymore. Like he doesn't have the looks. He doesn't
have the strength. He doesn't belong there. Hey, it's all the
US. But when a young men turn to Allah, it is powerful. And this is
why Allah give you that energy when you're young so you can
collect all these reward and make your bank account the real bank
account that's going to be opened up on the Day of Judgment fill it
out when you're young. So Abdullah Ansari said a beautiful poem that
became a proverb. He says that CUDA keep St. That Giovanni musty
that purists who see Hodor Okay, per se St.
He said if during your childhood you play when you're young you
want to be must and you want to you know just party and have a
good time. And when you're old you don't aren't so tired and have an
energy when you're going to worship Allah subhanaw taala those
are your three stages of life either you're a child, your youth,
you're old man. So this is why it's important to to to take
advantage the Arabs the latest Shabaab the young do that, you
know, I wish that my youth will come back there's a famous Arabic
proverb but the word that's used in there is later and later in
Arabic Quranic Arabic is a vain wish that will not come true.
Yeah, late any contoura by the Quran says they would say on the
Day of Judgment, the kuffaar they say wish that we will dust the
scholars of Quran they say then why isn't it that they become just
What if their wish gets accepted? Right? And they become dust like
the animal and they don't they don't get punished in the fire.
But this is a later means a wish that doesn't come true. Right? A
wish that doesn't come true as impossible which and that's why
once you use your youth, you lose it. You're done with it. You will
not have that energy. So my advice to myself to everyone I mean youth
for us I couldn't say the ominous it goes up to age 40 Like that's
the that's that's the era of like young man Shabaab.
You have to use that energy for good, whatever good that is. That
doesn't mean she people think making this mistake that after
said all the time, I was surprised to Subhanallah that's not what
Allah is asking you. That's not what he's asking you. Right now.
You can do so much good that Allah will be pleased with you. Do you
do us do that help people call people that you know, people that
you haven't talked to old people see if they need anything, do drop
some groceries by their door and send them a text I just dropped
some groceries don't go shopping because I just went shopping,
right? How people i We made some food drop it off to the neighbor
that does this. So use that energy. When you're 95 years old,
you can't do that you can't go get groceries and drop it off somebody
else but do it now that when you get old then somebody will drop
off groceries for you. Because it's a cycle life is a cycle it
you You reap what you what you plant which is
so beautiful so many reflections just like Moorhead and another
thing that came to mind as you're speaking was it please correct me
if I'm wrong but aren't also the youth who commit themselves to the
service of the most popular among those who are promised the shade
of Allah subhanaw taala Yeah, that's that's a beautiful reminder
because there's the you know, on Day of Judgment, one thing people
have to understand they have judgment is the last day that
there's a sun
that's it. It's a last day that's why it's called the last day
because paradise there's no sun, you're always in the shade. So
they have judgment. And the sun is so close that people are sweating.
There is no shade, everybody's looking everywhere, there is no
shade. And then Allah says in the Hadith poetry beautiful Hadees
that the day that there is no shade, seven categories of people
will be under my shade. And one of those is the one you just
mentioned a young man, right, who who grew up in remembrance of
Allah. But the second another one, too has to do with wood, wood,
wood, Shabbat and in desire. A young man who has a beautiful
woman comes to him and he said hey come for an illegal relationship.
And he replies if I fear Allah
that's the person he's in the shade of Allah on that day, when
there is no shade as well. But there's a beautiful Hadith or a
hadith of beautiful Abdullah bin Abbas already known who he
narrates it, he said net Mitanni. Novel Boonen is now written in
Arabic you have technique, which is to
which means to do dual. So you have single you have dual your
plural Arabic, NIA Mitanni baboon and FEMA gets here in minutes,
right. So these two pluses he says that most people they take it for
granted. majority people this these two blessing. What are those
as well for
Now is good health. Yes. And it is free time. Like, what do we do
with our time? Time? You know remember Sally said this room he
said this Ansari said this author said this, I've come across this
statement in so many books, I'll walk to save the time is like a
sword.
If you don't cut with it, it will cut you.
So you have to use the time to go forward. Right? Don't let time cut
you because the next thing you know it's like years past and
decades past and then you know you're at the end of your life and
you're like, Oh my God, what did I do with my life?
Amazing, just like a more fair and and that's a good segue into the
next portion of this hadith that for those who are entering just
like my opinion for being here, we're here with a set for it and
rigidity and we're speaking about the value of time we related a
beautiful Hadith that was recorded in the Muslim Imam Ahmed, which is
regarding five matters in the process I'm advised us to take
advantage of and so this Saturday, we just talked about youth before
becoming old. Now the next part of the hadith is your health before
you fall sick. So if you can please take us through this part
of the Hadith inshallah. Yeah, health is one of the greatest
blessings that Allah has given humanity.
And a lot of time, one of the things that we forget is that we
don't get up in the morning and say, You Allah, thank you for not
giving me a toothache. But when we have a toothache, we get up with a
complaint. Right? But we don't have it we don't say. And this is
the blessings of Allah. It's you know, when in doubt, do not metal
a laptop. If you try to enumerate the blessings of Allah the
products if you want to count, you sit down when you say no, I'm
going to count the blessings of Allah, you can count from now to
eternity you will not be finished. There is no way you can enumerate
because Allah is infinite and his blessings are infinite when he
gives it comes from the source that is infinite. Right? So health
is you know, one of the, you know,
it's mentioned in a few books.
Our beloved chef mentioned it as a segment of Shafi or Arabic proverb
that health, good health is like a crown that is on the head of every
healthy person. Good health is like a crown that is on the head
of every healthy person that only the sick can see it. Now, when I
had when I had an operation many, many years ago, when I was in
college, I had an operation that I went home and they said is going
to be good in two days. Then I was in bed for like two three weeks. I
couldn't get up if something went wrong. And my friend used to come
and visit me we said play basketball every day. I'm like 20
years old. And and I was looking at them I saw it I didn't know
this this saying but it when I heard this thing. It made perfect
sense when I looked at him what a blessing to we they're going
playing basketball afterwards I I can look up because I get dizzy
and I fall. And did you realize that it is really you're the king
in the Queen if you're healthy. And this is why Allah asked you on
the younger camera, then I give you good health.
This, Allah will ask you then I give you a good house. So those
times that we are healthy, we have to be grateful to that. Because
sickness will come. Now here's the thing about sickness because many
people are suffering. They're sick. They're going through trials
and tribulations of life.
Mother had said, he said What good is a body that doesn't have pain?
Right? What good is the body doesn't have pain. We don't ask
for pain. Like we don't ask for pain. This is not part of a
religion to ask for yalla give me pain. But if you get pain, know
that Allah is just giving you something to get you closer to
when you get close to Allah through pain. Rumi said everybody
makes it thicker. He said everybody makes it thicker. But
there's a there's a there's a thicker, he said hon Nana Vida as
absurd. He's honden at Bodart as Dilber the yeast, he said to call
upon Allah without pain. Come on, anybody can do that. But to call
upon God and pain. He said that is the way of the lovers. Because
when you're in pain, see everybody's looking for the smell
of them. What is the Greatest Name of Allah? How many books you have
read the say, the you know, they're looking for the Greatest
Name of Allah to call upon him. You know the what our scholars
they say about this, The Greatest Name of Allah, that when you call
upon Him, He answers you is the name that doesn't make sense to
you.
When your dad is the greatest because Allah knows you're calling
him nobody else knows. Only you know, and Allah knows because that
yearning that is that you do when you're in pain. Who are you?
doing that for you're calling upon Allah in that is why pain. I
thought Michelle Puri they asked him because you know he had a lot
of people are painting or complaining. He said call for call
federal within tindora he said let me tell you what the cafe wants
those who disbelieve in God and what the people of Deen wants. You
know, the the Zohan the people of Zod and the people of religion and
the people effect on the people of spirituality. Is it the people of
color? They want their coffee? They want the drinking, the
partying, the fornication, the dancing, they want their coffee,
that's what they want, right? Isn't the people of Devo do they
want they will Dean they weren't fasten, you didn't want thicker
and they won't do this. He said, You know what I thought once a
drop of pain,
a drop of pain, because he knew that pain will get him so close to
Allah, that all of these people are crawling through to God, he'll
be flying to God. So if you have pain, know that, that yearn
special attention, your special attention. And Allah has given you
that in order to purify you, and to increase you and rank and get
you over time. So we don't ask for it. But if you've got it, you
know, it's kind of like sitting on a gold mind. sitting on a goldmine
and Wallahi
if people have don't have pain,
if people don't have pain, some people will never be connected to
Allah. Never be connected to Allah. It is pain that connects
him. And that connection is priceless. That connection is so
powerful that on the Day of Judgment, you would say your
Allah, why did you give me pain for a year you should have given
me for 100 years of my life, because now you know the reward of
it. Now you know, your station that, you know, maybe Ayesha
narrates a beautiful Hadith, about pain, that the council has said it
removes pain is expiation for your sense, right? And she's really, he
said,
even if a thorn goes into the body of a believer in they remove it,
and that did a pinch. Ouch. You know, because don't Is it even
with that? Allah removes sense from their body and purifies them
and get them closer to Allah because see, every time every
Hadith that you hear that Allah removes sense from you remembered
another meaning of that what happened when when sins are
removed, your station goes higher. So you get audible, you get closer
to Allah. So every time I heard he said that sins are removed, like
when you wash your hands in will do. The Prophet said, when the
waterfalls from your elbow, the sins of the hands are falling from
your elbow. What does that mean? Your hand is getting closer to
Allah now, because it's becoming less than the less sin the closer
sins
are, what distance us from Allah,
Zack Morehead and gosh, so many beautiful things to reflect on. As
you were speaking, we have a mutual friend that you know very
well. One of the things that I remember when she shared with me
really hit me hard and made me more appreciative of so much was
when she she suffers from many different ailments but one in
particular, prevented her from being able to make such the end
when she spoke about how much she yearned to go back into make such
that I realized like Oh ALLAH how much we take for granted because
it was something that now she's not able to do and she hasn't been
able to do for years for decades, that she yearns for it. So how
many of us can make such a freely but we don't your your import with
the same intensity and desire May Allah guide us and that's the
thing. That's the thing that you know, one of the nature of human
being and present, you know, I when I when I had my first best
friend in fourth grade, he told me a poem Alliance. And he said, he
said you will know my value. I said, Come on, I know your value.
And it was is we just became best friends. I don't even know what
best friend was. He taught me what friendship was my terroir and he
said, he said do Scott reduced Katonah tonight after Judo he he
said a friend would never know the value of a friend until they're
separated.
In this is the nature until things are not taken away from us. We
don't know the value of that sister didn't know the value of
such that to the degree that she knows now. We all know the value
of says yo we love sage that but how long is our session?
Where are we at are such that right? Or we connect it to Allah
Allah says, Now once you go through that sickness, where you
can make such that and then Allah heals you and you make such that
again, your stage there's different
massages acmarket And again, another
thing I just wanted to share was, again in relation to what you had
said about calling on Allah subhanaw taala. I recently went
through something very similar to that in that I had a migraine that
I've never experienced before in my life, to that extent of pain
and anguish. And it was so debilitating as you might have
added, I hope you've never felt this way before. But for those who
may have ever felt a migraine, sometimes you can't move. So you
are basically in a state situation where you have no mobility. So
that's the situation I found myself in one day where I had a
migraine that was again, the felt like hammers were just on my head,
but I couldn't even get up to get a drink of water or medicine or
anything. So I just exactly as you described, I was wincing in pain.
And I literally begged Allah subhanaw taala to remove the pain
because it was unbearable. And Allah, you know, he says, I ended
on the appdb, right? We know that he's in the, you're in the opinion
of, he's in the opinion of his servant. And so knowing I had no
recourse whatsoever, only almost five, I can remove this pain from
me, I begged and I had Inshallah, you know, we have to have
confidence, right? When we make the honor that Allah subhanaw
taala will answer us. And I, you know, I'm just sharing this
because I lived it. I know Allah subhanaw taala is I'm a raw human,
he literally removed that pain from me in a way that I can't
explain. But I lived that experience. And I know that for
those who are in pain, physical or mental, we've had some people ask
them questions about, you know, mental pain, if they're stressed,
or they've had, you know, maybe other emotional issues happening
to them, calling on a lesson had that about that type of sincerity
with that type of your keen opinion is so important, right?
Because He will answer you and I am a witness to that, that, you
know, here's my allow them as you said, he responded Subhanallah and
I was it, he removed the pain from me, within very short amount of
time. Subhanallah so I'm just sharing that as, again,
inspiration for those who are watching, we're covering this
beautiful Hadith of the prophets, I said, I was taught that where he
advised us to take advantage of five matters before five other
matters are separated as Inshallah, for those of you who
are again joining us, you've landed in a good opportunity to
share it to take from his wisdom, he's shared so much with us, we've
covered two points of this hadith, which were regarding youth before
you become old and health before one fall sick. Now the third part
of the hadith is your wealth before you become poor, please
separate and share some facts on
this Well, one of the things is about wealth is the Quran is so
beautifully described the the beginning of the Quran and Al
Baqarah when you start reading Alif Lam in the article cavalry if
you've been Alladhina we know the villa came to how do you become
moving in those who believe in a very when and where your key Munna
salata and then they established prayer right after that were
members of unknown us. Right? And they spent up what what Allah has
given us the first thing we have to really come to, to
understanding that the wealth is not ours is from Allah, He gives
to whomsoever he wants, and this is why hazarded jealousy is not
part of our teaching. Like because you're just disagreeing with God's
distribution. Why does so and so has so much and I don't have this
much he's a cafe he's a Christian, he's a Hindu, he's a Buddhist I'm
a Muslim right? And this is I'm Charlaine I'm doing a course soon
inshallah online on the on this matter, like how do you how do you
get vows? Will you worship Allah all day and you're still poor?
Like why don't you get wealth? So we're going to talk about this
subject and then also
for those people that ask this question, there's a thing I'm
going to be doing inshallah program called The Power of pain
on from monana roomies perspective. So we're going to
talk about physical spiritual and mental suffering and pain
Inshallah, in detail, you know, we can, Inshallah, continue these
conversations in the future as well with this platform, but
anyways, the world is from Allah.
For believers for movement for Muslim, they have to know every
time they spend the money, that is a trust that God has given them,
they should, that's why like, you don't spend your money on haram.
Because you have this is a blessing from Allah. So I should
spend it in the right way. This is why one of the things that the
Prophet said
that Allah doesn't love those people, those who spend the money
because they can
I'm sorry, say I don't care how much they just, you know, because
you can, right, then you don't, you don't really you're not,
you're not I mean, a trustworthy person of that work that Allah has
given you. Because every penny you spend, you have to answer for
that. So what is from Allah but the thing what, what, what?
Poverty? See traditionally in the
Muslim countries. And this is what our shareholders talked about in
the classes in purification of the heart as well, that poverty was a
dignified station.
In the West poverty is, you know, it's looked down upon. If
somebody's poor, they have no class in America. But in a Muslim
country, you could be the poorest man in your community yet because
you went to prayer five times a day at the masjid everybody come
kisses your hand, the rich come kiss your hand. Right? There was a
dignity Republic, there wasn't, it wasn't we didn't give a status
based on money. Right? It was based on I wasn't based on form,
we were based on meaning that people carried inside of them. And
we have become a traditional sport. Now in the West, especially
right? We don't nobody cares about the meaning. It's all about form,
how much money you have how many followers you have this, you know,
this is how we go forward. But anyways, well, there's no problem
to be to be rich, and it's not worth man, I'm not a fan. See, he
bought paradise three times. Because the Prophet said, who's
gonna buy paradise during the fundraiser, if you if you armed is
this many people before the battle one time, and not enough fun,
raise his hand the next time, it was the third time the Prophet
said, you have already bought it twice the third time, because what
if you didn't have the money couldn't do it.
If you didn't have the money, he couldn't do it. Right. So he had
the money in his spend it for for the causes of this. Now, that
doesn't mean you don't wear good clothes, you're rich, you don't
have a nice house, you have all that you use, you know, the
blessings that Allah has given you should be manifested on you
shouldn't wear, like, you know, patch clothing, if you're a
millionaire. That doesn't mean that's not as long you show the
blessing, but you don't go and get a you know, $700,000 car because
you have the money like it just this is just ridiculous. I've you
see these things in some of the countries in the Muslim countries,
right, their cars that are made only for the Muslim countries,
because even the Westerners billionaires, they don't like this
stupid, I'm not gonna spend that much money on a car. Right?
Because I can spend it, I can do it. That's the big problem. In
poverty, look, what comes what goes. One of the things that my
mom taught me when we were young, a beautiful Persian proverb, and
as you know, when you go to the Imam, and they, you know, they do
the Kisa. And they take all of the, you know, the Naja from your
hands and your body out. I mean, here, they don't have Kisa, and
they don't have the, you know, in America, but if you go to Turkey,
back home, Afghanistan, India, all these places, they have hanged
man, like you go, and they have this horse cloth that they put,
and then they let things come off from your bodies like
what I went through study when I went to Afghanistan, and the guy
said, Sure, I'm gonna do keys. I said, Listen, I came from America,
we shower every day, we're pretty clean. And he said, Okay, and then
he said, he said, I was so embarrassed. I was so like these,
like they, you know, anyways. But they the Persian Afghani, they say
that it is the dirt of your body. It's like those things.
You just clean yourself from it. And this is why Zakat is very
important. Because it's a card, you have to give us a cut. A lot
of people they don't know that if you don't peel the card, which is
two and a half percent of your excessive wealth, even your cash
that you have in your safe deposit in your bank that you don't use
for a year. That's a carnival, you have to pay if you have let's say
you have $50,000 cash in your account that you haven't touched
for yet into the year you have to pay two and a half percent of that
zakat. If you don't pay this card, the two and a half percent, then
entire 100% becomes content contaminated with haram. All of
it. And that's why there's no Baraka some people send their
money, there's nobody in their home, there's nobody in their life
with their children with their spouses. So because those things
you have to be very careful about, about giving the rights of of
wealth as well. So you know, if you have it, you know, the best
one was the best story that I've ever heard on this was Abu Hanifa
story. And for all the hundreds. I know you're still hungry, right?
Yes, I am. Okay.
Yeah, no, no, no, yeah, I try to keep all of you guys in the Hanafi
madhhab. This, we're gonna have a whole Malachy Afghani revolution
and in the 90 hamdulillah they're all good. We just having some time
we have not had fighting but it's because I love
the Imam Abu Hanifa was an amazing scholar. He was a merchant as
well. And he was sitting teaching a class one day and a man came in,
whispered in his ear something and then he put his hand on his heart
and he said Alhamdulillah then two hours later, the same man came and
whisper something in his ear. He put his hand on his heart
Alhamdulillah the student they said what was that?
He said he came to me and he said because he was a merchant merchant
he had used to bring sell from Persia and sell it in Iraq. And he
was like, you know, these these these ships that will come, he
said, the ship that had all your, your material, your entire stock
synced and you lost all your world. He said I put my hand on my
heart to see if there's a change in my heart.
And I saw that there was no change. And I said Al Hamdulillah
In other words, he was rich and then he became poor because he
lost everything entire ship of it's in that's what they had these
people didn't have like saving accounts and all that everything
was like okay by ship come in and sell it by ship come and sell it.
And that's how they used to make money.
And then she two hours later, he came in, he whispered to me is
that sorry, that was the wrong ship. It was somebody else's your
stuff is all the tax. And he said I just realized that I became rich
again. And I put my hand in my heart said there's a change in the
state of my heart. And there was no change. And I said I humbly so
for us, the wealth should be in the hand, not in the heart. If
it's in the hands, it's perfect because it's there to distribute
it to make use of it. The heart is a place you don't want anything
except Allah.
Absolutely beautiful. Does that work? I haven't I never heard that
story. It's so beautiful, so profound, Subhan Allah. Thank you
again, for those who have joined us. I'm just going to reiterate,
we're with a set today doing we're talking about this beautiful
Hadith of the prophesy centum who advised us to take advantage of
five matters before five other matters. We've covered youth
before you become old health before we fall sick wealth before
we become poor, the fourth portion of this hadith is very much
related to the theme of today's program, your free time before you
become preoccupied, please separate and again drop more gems
on us. No love lost you. Thank you. I think that you know, we
talked about at the beginning that about the two blessings, the
hadith of Abram does that, you know, and this is in Sahil Hardy.
So it's a sound Hadith that there are two blessing that people
actually, you know, most people take for granted. And one of them
is is free time.
One of the greatest lies that have been taught to human being is the
concept of the spoon people say, or I don't have time
because the only thing you have is time.
The only thing you have is time. So it's time management that is
destroying most people now I remember a story in a book called
The three woman of Herat. There's a book written in I think she was
there in the 70s the person was in 70s in Afghanistan wrote a book
about especially about the Herat and I when I was in college, when
you have nothing to do you read all this stuff. So anyways, in the
book, it said, and this is because I come from Iraq, and I know how
to this statement. He said when I was in Iraq, and I was spending,
one of the thing I have noticed was the man would wear really nice
watches. I saw Rado I saw Movado, I saw Rolex I saw omega. And it's
so true. Every member of my family and Afghanistan, they have they
have an amazing watch. They were amazing watch isn't that the man,
if they don't have a year, every woman they have to have the Louis
Vuitton purse. Like even if you don't have money, you have to
borrow from your credit card. You want to buy that person just to
carry it. It's part of like the culture here. Right? So the watch
is was part of this.
of the culture. So she says, but I've noticed that in this city,
the concept of time doesn't exist. I don't know why they are waiting,
watching.
You was searching. He said, Because I saw these people. I
said, Where are you going? He said, I'm going to so and so's
house. And as we said, okay, and then I would see him stand by the
tree talk to another guy for two hours. And I thought you were so
yeah, so my friend we just hanging up. They said there's no
appointments, there's nothing but why do they carry these beautiful
watches, right? So we have these watches, but we don't know how to
do time management. And time is the essence. See, as you and this
the Greeks have been talking about this, the Persian the Chinese
everybody talking about it. Every breath that you take your one
breath let's and your treasure chest because chest has doubled
meaning right is that one a double entendre is a chest which is the
chest but chest also means a chest right like where you put your
jewelry and stuff in there like a box. So the chest is a treasure
box as well that carries your breath.
Each and every one of us has limited amount of breath. So some
people have 1000 breath
They die in infancy, right? Some people have a million, I don't
know how many we have. But every time we inhale and exhale, it's
one less, one less, one less. And we don't know which one is the
last one. So when the last one comes, that you inhale, and you're
not, you don't have anything to exhale, you're done. When the last
time that you exhale, you don't have anything to inhale, you're
done, you will run out is that your bank account goes to zero,
you can withdraw money once he goes to zero. So that's
know that every breath is just getting shorter, and shorter and
smaller and smaller. So use your time wisely. Use your time wisely.
People the thing that Imam Ghazali mentions this in here,
about the three boxes. For me it was a you know, people say game
changer. This was game changer for me. Like if this is game changer.
On the Day of Judgment, you opened a box, there's three boxes in
front of you said open it up, you open the first box, and a good
smell comes out. Amazing smell is Asendia. Oh my God. And the
Prophet said, if this smell goes to * fire, the people of fire,
they will forget about the torment of fire. That's how beautiful the
smell is.
And you say, what is this Your love never smelled something like
this. These are your good actions. This is the scent of the box of
your good action. Look at it. It was amazing. Amazing. So open the
second box, he opens the second month This smell is so horrible.
It's so horrible that he's losing his cycles. You're Allah What is
this? And the Prophet said, if this smell goes to Paradise, the
people a paradise will forget about the blessings of Paradise
because of this bad smell. So what is this? This is the evil action.
And then she opened a third box, he opens the third box. And
there's nothing say Allah, what is this? He said, This is the box of
those precious time that we gave you, and you wasted doing nothing.
You wasted doing nothing. And the man starts to weep. And he says
yeah, Allah give me a chance. So I can go back. And I can fill this
with good actions, because that is the tipping point. That box is the
tipping point. It can take your scale and make it heavy on the
other side, and you can go to paradise. And that's the box that
people regret the most on the Day of Judgment. I left all that box
empty all this time. They didn't do anything. Just wasted time. We
were not created to play video games. 24/7 We were not created to
just sit in chat and do nothing.
Do something. Do something. You know that one of the poems that
comes to my mind says my name you agree I'm Xeon con you're
perfectly suit Bosch. I'm not gonna give you advice because some
of the poet's What do you think about them? They're so beautiful.
They were they didn't want to be like a preacher. They do this do
that Rooney never does it. You don't find anywhere Rumi says do
this, do that. No. He just elevates you that you are going to
do amazing thing. He said I'm not going to tell you hey, go into
business and make money. Oh go into don't go into business lose
money. I'm not going to tell you the make profit or loss. I'm not
telling you anything.
Aiza Forsyth, Bihar that has he has the Zoot Bosch, Oh, you are
unaware of the concept of time. Whatever you're doing, make it
fast because your time is limited.
to Don't waste your life. Don't waste this precious life that
Allah has given you this beautiful time that Allah has given you.
Because it's going to come to an end. And it comes very abruptly.
It's not going to send you a message. It's not going to send
you an SMS is not going to text you death will come suddenly and
then it's too late. So use your time wisely. In when are you going
to start using your time wisely. Tomorrow, Abdullah Ansari said the
problem is that tomorrow would never come because there's always
a tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow, tomorrow. No today.
Today if you're gonna get one thing from this
this talk today take this home everyone. This is this is this is
something that benefited me greatly. It's a How To Belong
sorry, indicted for year for anyone with a great Gnostics of
Islam, one of the most amazing human being that ever walked on
this planet. He said he said caught in Rudra the Florida
magazine. Is it pleased my son my daughters. Don't put today's work
for tomorrow.
Progress don't put to work for tomorrow. Because tomorrow has a
tomorrow and then tomorrow has a tomorrow and it can go on for
Ever. And that's the trick of shaytaan. Live your life as though
you're going to die tomorrow for the D.
Live your life as you're going to live for 1000 years for the dunya.
And this is the prophetic teaching. In other words, the work
of Dean don't say, You know what, I've started making up my prayer
tomorrow. No, I'm going to start making up my prayer today. But
this thing of the dunya can wait till tomorrow if I if it doesn't
happen, doesn't happen, who cares? But the author of work, I'm not
going to let it end. Don't go to sleep. If you're missing a prayer
today, don't go to sleep. Make sure you have today, all your five
prayers are done before you go to sleep. And that's OTF to me. You
know, that's the only people have made Miss prayers in the past. And
they're saying, Oh, my God, I don't have time. How am I going to
be it's all the time, I can't make it up. First of all,
put the past right now in the back burner, is start doing your five
daily prayers now.
It's not doing that now. Because then you're going to be just
overwhelmed. And then start making up one prayer a day. Just one
prayer. Instead of everyday do one prayer. And okay, it takes you
five years, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years doesn't matter. Once you
started, even if you don't finish it before you die, Allah will have
an angel finish it for you.
Because you started on the path and you were doing it every day,
just a little bit. But every day, constantly use time wisely. Time
is the greatest gift from Allah and it's limited. That's the thing
just like Ramadan is coming.
A Yemen now do that.
limited time, right? Like you do a program says hey limited See, once
you sold out you can you can go in there, right? Life is like that
too limited time. This time. Yesterday is done. Everything you
did yesterday is done return goodbye. You can't do anything
about it. But today's not now is not after this. What are we going
to do is door time for us. Right we got to do a door, right?
Because Juma you have to wait till the Germans are done. But for the
Hanafis for your city, you have to wait till all the Juma prayers are
done and then you pay
on the Juma you don't pay at the beginning of time, it's actually
preferred to pray at the beginning of time for every prayer, except
for the day of Juma for, you know, if you're praying doors are
respected, you know, even though we don't have Juma prayer, but out
of respect, we wait for that for the player to be that.
Emotional again, so many beautiful gems in the last portion of the
Saudi ties very much to everything you just talked about, which is
your life before your death. And as you were speaking, another very
important point that came to mind that Showhomes mentions in the,
you know, translation of the famous poet love. Remember models
where he talks about many of the diseases of the heart. For those,
again, who are not familiar with this text, I'm gonna go ahead and
put it up for you. Because you should absolutely have this book
in your home library, every single Muslim home should have this text,
it's invaluable in terms of what it offers. And many of the
beautiful points that was upgraded and sharing are reflected in this.
But one particular disease of the heart that he talks about is the
tweet and on the right of this idea of false hope, this idea that
we will live forever. And this concept that again, of our society
around us, the delusion of the world around us reinforces over
and over again, that we have ample time we have ample opportunity.
And so this last point of this hadith, to take advantage of your
life before your death. Again, you've spoken about this, but just
kind of bring this beautiful conversation to a close so that we
can open it up for questions. Please, if you have any further
insights on the value of again, really seizing your life and
giving importance
to yourself about the purpose that was
before your time. One of the things about a prophet Salah
Salem, if you look at the great teachers, right, and there is no
greater teacher than the Prophet SAW Salem in the history of
humanity. Right? If you look at all the great teachers when they
were the Greeks, Socrates, you know, you know, pre Islam, post
Islam, all of them, the way they taught was, they made very
sophisticated subjects, beings that were really brought it down
and made it simple for people. They didn't dumb it down. This
whole idea of dumbing things down is not part of our culture,
because we want to raise people up. But we want to make concepts
easy to understand for the mind, and we want to elevate people
through that teaching. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam and I'm going to do this for you because you said this
thing. So the prophets of salaam drew a line in the sand right?
I saw he drew a line in the sand like this, right? And then
he said he drew a line on the top. Right? And he said, This is your
Amel, right. This is what all your goals where you want to go, I want
to do this, I want to do this in life, I want to do this and like,
so you have this in your life, right? And then he drew a line
here. And he said, This
is your agile, this is your death that comes before that.
So all in that, for me is kind of like,
how, how much are we going to have these ambitions and goals of life?
We have to be ambitious. That's this, you know, in terms of
ambitious, I don't like the word ambition. It's because it does
have a negative positive is a mixture. We we have to have goals
in life, we have to be wanting to do great things in life. Nobody's
saying, Oh, don't do anything. But you know, Rumi said something very
interesting. He said, he said, when you make your goals, reflect
on the size of the goal,
he said, Hey, cannot pick up a mountain.
In other words, be realistic. Because realistic goal, you want
to be above? Yeah, you want to be above so you can push yourself.
But you don't want to have a goal where you depress all your life,
because it's impossible for you to achieve. Right? So be realistic,
but that have the highest level of real estate, your, your ideal,
right have the highest level, so you push yourself. But you know,
it's some people they say stuff where it's like, you need seven
lifetime to do that in a team of 100 people to do this, and you
don't have anybody, what do you what are you going to start and
they don't start and then 15 years, 20 years later, you meet
the same person that is still the same exact spot is that, you know,
you got to start somewhere, right? You got to start somewhere. So
live. Look.
We have in what, there are many reasons why suicide is haram and
so many reasons. But we'll look at two things. One is would you do?
Just the mere fact that you exist? Why do we exist? What are we just
think about it? For one second, I want everyone to think about this?
Why do you exist? You exist? Because God says coin is a beat
and you came to existence? That is enough to be in a state of ecstasy
for eternity. God said Be and I am.
Isn't that enough to be just joyful and happy for eternity? God
said can be I was part of that. Yes. You are part of that. That
you exist. This existence is the greatest gift of God. Second, what
are you carrying in this body in this cage? This spirit of God? A
roof is the Spirit of God. Allah put the roof in it, Melissa.
You can't take the roof out.
The roof has to leave when God wants it to leave. You have to
leave it to God.
Yes, there's trials you tribulation in life. Yes, there's
triumph in life. Yes, there's failures in life. But you know,
what Nelson Mandela said, I never lose. I win. Or I learn. That's
our life. I never lose. Don't look at failure as losing. This is a
Michael Jordan took that as a model. Right? He said, I want to I
want to be like Nelson Mandela, I want to win or learn. And he
became the greatest basketball player, you know, if
you know, but that's what he did. Like he, you know, there's a story
about him. They said he played ping pong with one of the NBA
players at a hotel before the game. I'm so sorry.
Forgive me, because the line is gonna cut off in just about a
minute. But I want everybody to know we will resume. So it's
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I think this, what we'll do is we'll save this line. But we'll
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We want to listen to more of you also.
Please just bear with us. If the if it gets awkward, please, if you
want to continue the rest of your story until it cuts off. Bismillah
Yeah, so But anyways, he was playing ping pong and he lost. And
then he said he ordered a ping pong table in his room.
Immediately the guy went and bought it and for the next few
days, he played ping pong and he mastered it. The guy came in he
beat him.
He didn't take failure. He said, That's we fail, we learn and we
became better. That's the whole purpose of life doesn't mean No, I
fail. I'm gonna kill myself. That's not the answer. To Doom
yourself in the dunya in and out
Salam aleikum, everyone and thank you for rejoining forgive us again
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So you were saying I'm sorry, please? Do you want to re
sort of Yeah, no, that's that was that was the thing. So basically,
in my my advice to myself and everyone is to not give up.
Because given up means you don't have you don't have trust in
Allah, you don't have hope in because if you're connected to
Allah, in see, the greatest gift of spirituality, is that they
emphasize really on the concept of hope. Right. So you never feel
hopeless because the moment you feel hopeless. hopelessness, Rumi
said, hopelessness is like a boat that will end up in a shore like
you will, that shortage is going to end up
as cover
it takes you to cover because if you're hopeless, like that means
you don't believe in God. Like, yeah, if you believe in God, you
got to have hope. Right? And that's foundational to Islamic
teaching. You know, we Mrs. Ali said that we were like the birds,
you fly with two wings of hope and fear, hope and fear. You You fear
Allah subhanaw taala. But that fear is different. This is one
thing that my my teacher, Dr. Mercola taught me many years ago
that really had paradigm shift in my head about fear because people
fear God, they didn't know what that fear meant. We have two types
of fear. One fear is when you fear an animal, you see a lion, what
are you going to do you want for your life, right? You see a snake
you run away from it, that's a fear that you run away. Another
fear as you get closer to
this fear of Allah is a fear that you get closer, because your fear
is building takla consciousness, your fear is building, trust and
Tawakkol. So you're getting closer to Allah through this fear, you
don't get away. You don't distance yourself from God, you actually
get closer to Allah through fearing Allah. But fearing
anything else, you distance yourself from it. Yeah, beautiful.
Now, everything that you've spoken about today, again, so many, so
many invaluable statements that you've shared insights. But a lot
of the things that I've seen, and even some of the questions that
have been reflected have to do with, you know, the thoughts that
people have that they can't control anxiety worse was? Can you
maybe speak a little bit about how to differentiate between the
whispers of shame? Or he's really trying to break you down? And
just, you know, how did I take control of that are struggling?
It's a high level. So basically, one of the things that people have
to understand is that we have a system in Islam. And you have to
go with if you want to get the most benefit, you have to go with
the system. For example, if you want to go if people want to go
and build muscles, right? They go to the gym, you can just go and
pick up one thing and just keep doing that say, Hey, why am I not?
Well, my arms are getting strong, but I am not strong. But you go to
a person, a physical trainer, and he will say, No, you have to do
this machine first, this second. And then the next day you get rest
of your body, and then you work the other. So there's a system and
then you will see the result and it takes time, right? It's not
overnight. Six months later, like Whoa, now I can feel more strength
and I'm you know, losing weight and I'm doing all this stuff.
There's a cyst
into it. But some people say no, I just, I just want to get strong
but I don't want to go through the system. It doesn't work that way
that easily. You might get the muscle on your arm, but your all
your the rest of the your body is going to be weak. What are you
going to do with that kind of
weight training? So the taqwa all of the vice versa is because we
see you have to build a shield control around yourself
physically, mentally and spiritually.
It starts with physical
right you can see the man who said was complaining and in the Hadith
said, you know, well, Melba will haram, you know, is causing is
haram and his food is haram and everything is haram. You can't
complain when everything is haram to say why my life is a mess.
Well, I'm sorry, everything you're doing is haram. Everything is
you're gonna have a messed up life, right? spiritually. So you
might be really good on social media, but you're burning inside
because you have to be you have to be real because one of the name of
God is is real. Right? Gotta be real. You can't be fake with God,
right? You can't play God, God would not be played. So you have
to have top law, just consciousness of the body. Like in
other words, you have to be pure. Keep yourself in wudu one of the
things that people ask Vice versa, most people don't even know do you
have to be with you all the time? You go to the bathroom, you come
out in what do you make a habit. We made that habit like we were at
SFSU SAMSA State University Raymer like we did the prayer and they're
like three prayers we should do an MSA and we were always in voodoo
and a cassis winter bath and we came up with it because we know in
two hours we have to do acid in Gemma. So we're going to be in
Moodle. So this concept of not being in Moodle is very alien for
the Muslims. They were always in will do they went to the bathroom
to came up in will do if you're in will do that. That's the layer one
protection against shaitan and vice versa. Because you're pure
Satan loves those things that are impure, right? Number two is then
you have Taqwa of of the limbs, not just physical, but you're not
going to hit somebody with your hands. You're not going to speak
foul language with your tongue. You're not going to look at the
Haram you're not going to listen to the haram. So those things you
have the second level but anyways, these things will help you get
protection. But all of your thoughts come from four sources
and if you get this you know where where everything comes from, we
will be called co author and this is Rahimullah in number has Ali's
contribution and many other many other scholars.
He said the first one is quantum of money. It is thoughts that come
from man from Allah. These are generally their commandment to do
good. When you have those thoughts are like kind of like tell you get
up and pray.
Give us a call. It's Ramadan, you're supposed to pay it. But
why? What are you waiting for? Like that is a up that that is the
thought that's inspired by a man right? He said the second one is
carotid Molokini. It starts from angels. And they're good, but
they're not commanding. They're more of just telling you to do it
like you know, gentle reminder. Right? A Ramadan this year is
really nice to give us a card during the summer, given last time
when we felt really good, right? Come on to stand the prayer if you
read them is going to be necessity time and then you might lose it.
Why do you want to lose your prayer? Come on, man, you know,
it's just encouragement to do good, right? And then the third
one is hot air shaytani is thoughts from Shaytaan in this is
always tricky.
shaytaan always tricky. He was always come on zakaat like God
needs your two and a half percent. Really, really you think that is
in need of your money? Who pays the card nowadays? Really? Who
does your sister pay that your uncle pay? But depends Come on.
There's bigger thing you need to worry about. Trust me, you need to
worry about your prayer. See now he wants you to pray just for you
not to pay as a call. That's how smart he is. Right? So he's
whatever he can do then once you leave that the call time is over
then he comes in and gets you out of the prayer too. So he would do
that he'll be tricky to do things like that right? All the shutdowns
is tricky right?
Then the last one is hotter than a sunny most dangerous one. Is the
thought of the knifes your own self your desire. Would you fit
yourself because some of us we turn ourselves into this predator
inside the rear unaware so he's Gazelle is saying that the hot
enough Sani one of the things that it has in common all the time. It
has laziness in it.
Man who where am I going to send my money to quarantine now most of
the institution, even if I give it to them, they're not going to
distributed. I can send it back home. There's nobody, there's no
you know, oh my god, like, you know, yeah, you know, but I'll do
it later you know do didn't shovel six days a shovel I fastened I'll
do is just it's just lazy, you know, I can pray inshallah later
you know, you know even if I prayed later is more blessing than
I can do to me to hide you to just you just procast and in laziness.
So thoughts come from these sources. So once you start knowing
it, you know which one is from whence, and then three, you
abandon the two this from shaytani funnily enough, and you take on
the one that is from Allah, and from the angels. And that's how
you start going forward with your life. Amazing does like more fit
and I have questions now I would like to just again, use the time
that we have with you to make sure that people who are attending are
also they they've submitted questions, and then we get to
them. So let me quickly just see if we can are they being
displayed, by the way? Because here's one, here's the first
question, how do we deal with getting overlays in it, which is
what you were just speaking about while having more time on our
hands. So very again, you address this but if you have anything more
to advise Inshallah, regarding one of the things about time is this
limit, let me give you one good example of time. The baraka of the
day, is an early hour of dawn. The back of the day is an early hour.
And this is why if you look at the west and the east, the successful
people in the religion, the successful earlier, what can they
get up to 100? They get up early pre Dawn, then they pray Fudger do
they sleep after fajr? No. Right?
What time does Bill Gates go to work? Just googling what time he
goes to work? 5am right. What about Zuckerberg? What time did
you go to just Google it? Steve Jobs, what time did he went to
work? Like they were all at work by 5am 4am They were all because
the early hour, Allah's put blessing in that hour and early in
the in the morning time. Most people they sleep through the
morning time, like they get up, you know, they get up shallow for
5g and then they go to sleep. And it's a bad habit. Most of us have
it, we're all guilty of it. But to make a habit, especially
especially during the time of the year, where 5g is like laters at
6am 630. And then you don't sleep afterwards, you can get a lot more
done in those hours. And then to sleep earlier is better to say and
I'm Macassar myself on that. So I'm trying you know, I've changed
a lot in with age you can stay up late at night anyways. So you get
to sleep early and you get up earlier. So it's really good to go
to sleep early, early. The you know the famous problem. Early to
bed early to rise makes a man happy, healthy and wise right.
I'm doing
excellent. So we have more questions coming in. Here's a good
one that I think people might need a little bit more insight on. How
do you know how to differentiate the CHE tonic thoughts from Neff
see thoughts? Yeah, so as we just mentioned shaitan thoughts are
always tricky. But remember shaitan doesn't know you?
What does he get his information from? From your knifes? room he
said nerves is the wiki leak and that's my translation. They said
knifes is the wiki leak to shaitan the wiki leak. Yeah, it leaks your
secret to share it on a listen. This man is in love with gambling.
So shaytaan would just entice you he's okay got him. This man love,
you know, wine. Like me, I mentioned this example at the
retina with the students that you know I had a bad experience when I
was young with alcohol I saw somebody drunk and they passed out
and vomiting and and and it was really disgusting to see that like
this person. And and I hated alcohol like it was just something
I couldn't stand up to today I there's nothing in the world I
hate more than alcohol. Like I just not only doesn't is not
appealing to me I actually hate it even when I go shopping. I can't
even go into I literally i My heart starts pounding going nuts.
I just go back and I go from the other eyes to go get stuff so he
has never ever enticed me with alcohol. Never
like never had a thing in my head that he might be good try not
never, but there are things that I'm weak and he always comes with
those ideas in my head right? So the knifes is the one relief so
you have to get your nerves under control. So how do you get your
nerves under control? When we go
About to a hospital Islam and he said there's two ways you get your
nerves under control. He said the nerves feeds the food of the
nerves is desires. You go to the mall. Whoa, what a beautiful
person, I'm gonna get that I'm crazy for it. I'm dying for it.
You get that you just gave you enough. But he wanted, I want this
food I'm craving. We're craving different types of food every two
hours and, and then we give that so the nafs is getting what it
wants. You need food. You don't need a specific type of food to
eat. Right? You need a purse, you don't need a specific type of
purse, get a nice purse, but not the one that Oh, my nest is crazy
for the corner. My nest is crazy for it. Right? You know, I my last
car when I was shopping, I told I went to the dealer and I said I'm
going to come at 9pm is every closing I say listen, I can't come
before that. Can you stay? He said Yeah, can you come at least 830
and McGraw was about eight o'clock. So I said shorts. I went
to the dealer on 830. So I pitch darkness. And these guys, I don't
want to see the car, the color. He said Why? Because you said you
don't know my desire for colors of the car.
I don't want to I don't want my knifes to make me weak. I want a
very family oriented color. You know, my friend told you just give
me that don't show me option because I'm gonna change my mind.
So literally, I went to office, I signed all the papers. Then I went
and sat in the car that I actually bought. But because I know my
naps, I know have witnessed this colors of the course I don't want
to give it into every day I come out and I see that and I'm like,
Whoa, look at this car, look at the color. And I'm feeding my
mouse. I'm feeding my nuts. So you don't get those things that the
next one but you get it you get a nice car. There's nothing wrong. I
got the car that I wanted. I didn't get the color that I
wanted. I didn't get all of those options that my enough's wanted, I
didn't need it. I needed a car. I wanted the stuff I needed a car.
But I wanted the sunroof, I wanted the the navigation system, I mean
the iPhone, I don't need a navigation system. Right? It looks
nice. But I got what I needed. So
you don't give it what it wants. You give what it needs. The second
way you said NASA is like a donkey that you have to put a lot of
weight on it until it collapses. And the wait is extra acts of
worship. So you do after the prayer you said don't don't just
leave the prayer rugs, one of the big the worst habit of the of the
young generation, they pray Islamic
either they pick up their phone, or they leave
just one minute 60 seconds. That's all I'm asking 60 These are all
game changer for me it was game to one minute, just sit there. Even
if you're not doing anything, just sit on the payroll, don't do
anything. It will come to you. It will come to you. It will make you
do things. Trust me. If you're sitting on that prayer rug, you're
not touching your phone, you're not doing anything, a vicar will
come adore will come you will remember someone than they needed
to, they will come to your mind. You'll be amazed people come to me
they haven't thought about them in 10 years, that then you make dua
for them. Just spend a minute after each prayer on the payroll.
And then these are spiritual practices, right? Do a couple of
units of natural plant a day, just two units a day. That's like
putting a lot of weight on your donkey, right? Have a jar in your
house and put a quarter a day 50 cents a day. If you can do to $1 a
day. If you're well off, do $2 a day. And you have children give
all of the children's according to put in the donation box. So they
can give donation regularly they know how to give donations. These
are all like wait on that donkey because you're giving donate
instead of giving $30 at the end of the month your budget, make a
jar and put $1 Every day in the jar. It is more weight on the
donkey than the $30 at the end of the month. Yeah, amazing does that
mark? You mentioned him about bizarrely and I wanted to just
quickly share because it's relevant to everything.
He has the text out to me of the happiness and there are these
chapter books that talk about many of the things that you're sharing
right on how to a treatment of the lust of the stomach and the sexual
organs and the treatment of pride and conceit Chi Minh of love of
power control of the harms of the tongue, but we can look to these
amazing scholars guidance on all of these things. So for those who
are interested, I'm not sure if you yourself are separated and
have them every bookstore but I think they're very beneficial for
people to read through this, these texts during the month of Ramadan
or even before in preparation for them. So I just wanted to quickly
mention those. As you were speaking about amount of Zadie. We
do have a few more questions again, I'm going to post them in
Sharla so that you can address them. Let me just pull them up.
So here is one Bismillah. Let's forgive me I'm just going to
I was this one, okay. Reconnecting with Allah for those who may have
lost their connection. What are some practical ways to do that,
especially as we usher in this beautiful month? You know, one
thing that you have come to said is, I think that this is really
something that all of us we need to really think about this. Nobody
is disconnected from Allah.
That is a greatest lie that ever been told. Because if you're
disconnected from Allah to Allah, an eyelid you don't exist. Would
you miss connection to Allah? You're just unaware of it.
That's all it is.
Allah resides in the heart of every human being.
Right?
A lot of is at the heart of every human being in a room is said Gulf
pipe on barchart farm with us Monday amigo jam that bolo pass
when we said that the Prophet said that Allah says there's a hadith
squatty that I don't fit I don't I'm not contained by the by the
skies or by the Earth. That is Amina awesome on Ash knees, my
noggin jump in the opinion a as is. The arch cannot contain me.
The Earth cannot contain me. The heavens cannot contain me. None of
them can know this with certainty. Oh my friend, right? That delay
more Minda going jump a Agia. How wondrous is this? I'm content in
the heart of the believer.
Garma Raju E. Del Hautala. And if you want to seek Me, seek me in
the heart of the believers. Go and seek ALLAH in your own heart. You
don't need to go anywhere to be connected to Allah. Connect
yourself to your own heart, and you will see the light of God. He
is there. Rumi said I traveled through the valleys, couldn't find
them in search of God. Then I went to the top of the mountains,
couldn't find them on top of the mountains. Then I went to the
depth. He wasn't there. Then I went to the Kaaba. I couldn't find
him in the cabin either. Then I went to Jerusalem. He wasn't there
either. Then I went to the church. He wasn't there. I went to the
synagogue. He wasn't there. I went to the temple. He wasn't there. I
went to the desert. He wasn't there. I went to the sky.
Everywhere I went, I couldn't find it. So I came back home. There he
was all alone.
Right there.
Absolutely beautiful.
He's there, but we just need to reconnect ourselves with our
hearts. And in our hearts are dying because we're disconnected
from it. And once you connect with your heart,
it the power of that is beyond words can explain. It's just
there's no way to explain when you're connected with your heart,
because you connected with a light of Allah. And he's, God will never
abandon his servant. And he said,
you know, Allah treats his servants, as though he has only
one servant.
Allah treats his servants as easy as once it's special attention to
each and every one of us. But we treat God as though there's the
millions of Gods there.
You know,
Allah's Mercy is beyond the forms of the ocean. He is there, all you
have to do is take a journey inside, click a few minutes a day
and reflect on yourself. Look inside yourself and you will find
him trust me, you will find him you can run away from God you will
only run into him.
Is that more hidden? We have another question here. What do we
do if we have too much anxiety every time we try to do good work.
So this is I think in from a psychological perspective, this
would be scrupulosity maybe OCD or feelings of you know, just not
control. Yeah. The thing is about anxiety, there's one anxiety
that's good. The other anxieties are not good. The anxiety that is
good that the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, make all your
anxiety, one anxiety, the anxiety of meeting Allah, think about
that. That's fine. He said, You know, I'm going to meet a lot
because then you put your life in perspective. And when we talked
about the five points, everything will be in perspective. I'm going
to meet Allah hyung How am I doing with my time? I'm going to meet
Allah, what am I doing with my youth? I'm going to be Allah, what
am I doing with my wife? I'm going to so all of those will come in
place, if their anxieties anxiety of meeting your Lord on a day of
judgment. And you have you have to have the fear. Right? That fear
gets you close to Allah, but hope, right, hope and trust in Allah
subhanaw taala you have to have trust in God that he is more than
First of all, then your mother 70 times more merciful than your
mother to you. So you look at it that way. So do whatever you can.
The religion does not need us.
You have to come to that conclusion. Don't feel like oh,
the DEA needs me I have to do things because the dean is in dire
need of me. So what if we all die right now with the dean die? No.
The dean is going to continue their religion did you need him?
I'm understanding
that religion doesn't need anybody. Nobody. We need the
religion.
The service that we're doing is not a favor to God. It's a favor
to ourselves. If we get to fix shoes at the masjid, what an honor
that Allah has given us. Right now we're not honoring God by choosing
fixing shoe that is at his house. No, we're being honored by the
right. So do what you can do with your limits, know your limits, and
do that, that you can, the little that you can. Look.
There's a there's a story now. And I believe it's in our thoughts
that
a woman heard that there's a Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam that whoever builds and women did great things and Osama
and I know that you're you've been working with with a lot of
contribution of the woman to civilization in the first
universities and, and I and actually, Inshallah, I'm planning
to do a couple of things about some of the women's of
Afghanistan.
That really floored me like DBCP, one of the great saints that
nobody knows about chooses to be pregnant. But her husband, they
were like, they used to go and rob caravans, and she used to have
swore, yeah. And then she makes Toba and she became BBC t, you
know, like, cities in Arabic for CV, right? In BV in Persian like
that, you know, like the master, and then she has all these, you
know, 1000s of Marines and is amazing woman husband, wife. But
anyway, so grave I visited last time, and I want to start anyway,
so this is woman who heard about this hadith that whoever does a
masjid
will get a castle in paradise.
Because you know what? God has given me one as give me power to
do it. I'm going to build the best Masjid in my country.
So she started building the machine. She builds the machine,
finishes it. And then
people come say we want help for No, no, I don't want anything. I
don't want any money. Nothing. I want to build this stupid
everything by herself. Anyways, they have judgment comes in. I
said, the Allah, you promised that you're going to give up a castle.
For the people who build a machine. I built the machine and
the best one in the nation. Allah says, Whatever my prophet said,
He's us is the truthful. Go in your in paradise and go into your
castle. So he goes in paradise. She sees that this beautiful
castle is perfect. She's like, amazed. She just goes everywhere.
And then she goes to the balcony of our castle. And then she sees
another castle that is better and bigger, on higher. Right, because
I have a question because what is your question says, Nobody built a
better machine than I did. Who built that cat? Who What did they
build? I want to know. They said Go ask him.
Go ask him. So he goes ask him we said how did you get this cast?
And he goes, Oh, you won't believe it. How I got it. How are you? He
said I was traveling through Baghdad.
And it was raining. Really bad rain. It was night. I was
traveling. I was wanting to sleep someone and people need to go and
sleep in a magic Pina is
built around opening hasn't happened. And I saw that the
window was clogged up with leaves from the trees. And I said man, if
the rain gets on this is going to damage the roof. So I climbed up
and I opened the rain gutter and remove all the leaves in the water
flow from the roof. And Allah gave me this for that.
He said that was my mother.
It is not the size that you have to the person who removed the leaf
from the machine guy because his intention when did he do it in the
middle of the night raining nobody's there. Sincerity to
Allah, because Allah sees in here as a black end on a black rock in
a pitch black night. Nothing. One of my good friends City, Boston,
Diana, he told me one day something I was I was really
depressed was one of the bad days of your life when you like
depressed and this is a long time ago, over 20 years ago. And he
goes if something happened, I did something. And I really worked
hard for like three, four months. And somebody just hijacked it and
they did it and they they said they did it.
I said, I did the whole thing and I was like, you know you when
you're young, and then he came, he says, I know you did it. He said,
he said, If I knew he did it he did you think a lot doesn't know
you did it. And he laughed, and he said something he was if I do
remember that, I swear to God, I remember the time, the place exact
his face as he was walking away from me from right in front of my
study said they doing nothing is lost, but Allah.
Nothing is lost when Allah, everything is recorded. So when
you do something with sincerity, when you do something, just with
that love for Allah, the reward is going to be immense. You people
will be shocked on the Day of Judgment with the reward that
they're going to get for the little things that they do. So
don't anxieties come when we try and do this a gigantic projects,
and we don't do the small things, and the blessings on the small.
Absolutely beautiful.
Who more questions and again, I appreciate your time. So if we
didn't, we had her set for it. And we had a lot of you for an hour
and we're going into an hour and a half. But I know that I myself
don't want this to end and I'm sure everybody else is in
agreement. This is just such sound beautiful advice and gems that
you're giving us. So I'm just pulling up a couple more questions
here in shot law. Is it okay to make dawn for Allah to remove you
from your in laws house and give you your own house? says a bit.
Very good question. I actually love that question. And the reason
why I love it is twofold. One is we are we have a tradition. And
this goes I want I want the parents and grandparents, watch.
They're not on Instagram, so they won't listen to this. But anyways,
I will stay with that.
We have a tradition.
And in this tradition
certain things worked really well.
Back home, but it doesn't work really well here because time in
place have changed. We haven't grown with our time in place.
People like when we grew up. We all live in one house brothers
sisters, you know, everybody lived in one house, right?
It was fine. Big houses, servants. Everything was perfect.
It doesn't work anymore. That is a dream to make you you're trying to
make India Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Morocco. In America, it
doesn't work in this country. Because we don't have the same
lifestyle. We don't have the same CBN at the same time in the same
place. It does not work. But for people who want to make that dua,
you have to add something to draw. And this is this is something that
really benefited me a lot. So I'm just
I just want you to know I'm not a scholar or anything. I'm just
sharing with you what I've learned, what benefited me, I want
to share it so you can benefit because as long as my sharing,
right believe me well if the prophet Sal or some of the Teach,
even if you know one verse, whatever you learn any benefit in
you say it to people don't hold this. It's no Island, it is only
for me right?
When you make dua, you add these words at the end of your DUA even
if you're saying this in your law, give me a house so I can be
independent from my in laws and say, with higher loads in arshia.
You add those three things, that if it's good for me,
right, there's gentlest in this move, right? And there's well
being what if you move into a house in that house has termites
or something so you go there all of you get sick, your children get
sick, and you get terminally ill?
You're out from your laws?
Right, you're out from your in laws, but you went to a place that
there was no hate, there was no law. There's no Afia so as those
that it's, you know, you know, one of the Yemeni scholars mentioned
about a man who who went to heights and he heard that the
first draft when you see the cabin is accepted. So even you know, he
went to hygine saba cabassa currency Allah wanna die as a
Shaheed every Muslim, they want to get the rank of the Martino. They
said when he came back, as soon as he got home, a lion attacked him
and ripped him apart and ate him as he became a Shahe been horrible
way that it is with hazelnuts in half yet that you can die in your
bed and you get the mango shahada right now, so always have that so
it doesn't harm you. Right. It's very difficult. I know a lot of my
people that I counsel and I talked to that they have difficulties,
and for some people, it might be your key
to paradise dealing with your mouse, while I like it might be
like the key to Paradise, like just being patient. And you would
see like, what, what, what will come out of it. But for a lot of
people, there's there's a cap where we call cap limit, people
are limited, you know, you can take so much, you know, not
everyone is has that capacity to, to go on for years and years. And
it's not in this country. It is not healthy, unless, you know,
there are people who have I know a friend of mine who has that two
houses that are, you know, like detached, but like they have the
back connected to each other one is them. And one is the in laws,
things like that is easier. Because the parents are older, and
he wants to check up on him daily and make sure and share their
food. Those are beautiful things, you know, you just have to you
know, people need to do things and laws treat them, like your
parents, regardless, you have to treat them like your parents.
Beautiful advice, because you're really helping people have again,
a broader view of things instead of just that short, limited
instant gratification lens that a lot of people have gotten used to,
or they're only thinking of the immediate. But when you make a dua
with such a holistic, comprehensive way of doing it,
you're thinking of long term for everything, you're the
consequences of whatever you're asking for, for everybody
impacted. You know, so it's really beautiful advice. Just
we have a class last one last one you don't want to push into.
I think people are getting tired. So
we're getting into the
let's see here is doing some Okay, Michelle. I'm just skimming
through these to find one so that we're not overlapping with the
same questions.
So this is also a good I think question just to kind of give us
perspective about because the theme is the value of time
prioritization. So here's the question is doing something
beneficial? When you have other pending priorities? Also a waste
of time? How do we met? How do we prioritize, I think, is kind of
what this question is asking. Yeah. And you know, in life, the
thing is that all of us, if you if you want to look at your life, all
of us, we can say we have a million things to do. And that's a
reality, especially those who are parents, you know, you have this
responsibility, people who are at home, you know, the wife or the
mother that are cooking and cleaning, and, you know, it's just
these idiots, those are certain things, there's an end, like the
house cleaning doesn't end every day as washing is washing dishes,
these these motions and
these activities in these chores, and these are in reality, a form
of a bhaga. Like, you know, to to feed people. Right, so that was
man said, one thing I love about this, you know, people love
feeding people giving people water in these are like part of our
tradition. So there's a million things we have to do all of us.
Sometimes what happened we get overwhelmed, right? And the
Greeks, they, they use this in war, but I use it in my daily
life. Divide and conquer. That's my model, divide and conquer. So I
sometimes I get them I said, Oh my god, I have like these. See, you
know what? Okay, one thing I'm going to do this month, okay, I'm
not going to think about anything. So let me get this done. One of
them, okay, I'm going to do this, I have to eat whatever it is, I
have to memorize it, I gotta memorize, I gotta get it done. I
don't want to think about anything else. I want to read this, I have
to read this chapter, I made a promise, I'm going to read this
chapter. And I'm going to read it. So I don't think about the million
other things that I have to do. So I have to put all that this is it,
you put it you close it. And the beauty of that is that because
it's like taking weight from your shoulder and putting it away,
taking away from your shoulder and putting it away and you become
lighter and lighter and things becomes easier because you're
going into small chunks. Once you think about oh my god today I have
to do this there's this is that you know, we had this it's you
know, it's a stressful to be live online. Because you can slip you
can say something, we are all human beings, we make mistakes, we
will I'm not trained by any shape way or form in public speaking or
taking classes on public speaking or anything like that. So you're
afraid some you know, you might say something that offend people's
people's, you know, everybody's different.
But you can let the stress you once you make a decision that
you're going, you made that decision and you go positively
towards that. I'm going to do this even though if it's, there's
anxiety. So let's just prepare for that. Right? That's how you go
forward with it. And then the second thing is Okay, I gotta help
my my son with his homework, right? Okay, three 330 to four is
homework. Let's do it. During that time, we need to do homework you
Think about the poem you're trying to memorize, or the verse you're
trying to memorize, you don't think about I need to do cleaning,
you have to give. See, if you read the Shamal of the Prophet
salallahu alayhi salam, one of the thing that really floored me about
our Prophet solos, everything is amazing. He's the most amazing
human be that ever walked on this planet. But one of the thing that
really amazed me that he gave 100% of his attention to whoever asked
for it, he was never see this, this whole thing of multitasking
while you're on the phone, and you're doing this, and you're
talking to someone, and then you're doing you're texting at the
same time and cooking the same time. You're not giving full
attention to the to the person that deserves it. I'm here, I you
know, while you're doing your thing, I can read my own thing and
memorize my poems or my Quran or do something or text, my friends,
I can do that. Right? You can do that anybody can do that. But it'd
be a disservice to you and myself. The provinces, when somebody
called him, he didn't turn his head towards them.
This isn't a Shamaya, he turned his whole body towards them. He
gave his entire physical, spiritual, mental being towards
them. And that's why he was effective. He was real with
people. He was there in that moment with that person. When he
went to the other person, he gave his 100% attention to the other
person. Right? It wasn't like, you know, he treated everybody in with
dignity, with honor. And this is the thing, whatever project you're
doing in your life, give your 100% attention to it. Don't be
scattered, don't think about let four o'clock I'm doing something.
I'm not even worried about four o'clock right now. This is it
right? Now. This is it. I have to pay attention to this right now.
If thoughts of four o'clock comes, I wouldn't be able to speak to you
and say anything, because that's another project I'm doing right.
But that's not going to happen until 316. Or,
Yeah, four o'clock is I'm gonna project I know what I'm doing. I
don't want to think about it. I have to do before that I have to
do some homework. I'll do the homework. Right. Whatever I have
to do I have to wash the dishes, right? So I'll do the washing
dishes. I'm not thinking about washing dishes now. So divide the
work in concrete in managing with time. See,
I attended a seminar many years ago, in a non Muslim seminar, it
was called Lifespring. And one thing that they taught in that was
was really that what I took home from that,
when, you know, Anthony Robbins, and all these people, this is
their model, this is it.
He said they said that
until you don't schedule things. It's not a reality.
It's vain, isn't it? Because they will tell me what are you going to
do? I'm going to do this this they say when said Yeah, so I said no,
but when what date?
Date is until you don't schedule it, it's not a reality. And I had
things like that, that's 20 years ago, that I still haven't done
because I didn't schedule it. But things that I scheduled, I say
listen, hey, what? Ramadan, first, I'm going to do this, right? I
have to start doing it. Right, I have a schedule, there's an alarm
that goes on, okay, I'm gonna get on this. So scheduling things, is
make things real. And then it pushes you to do things and then
divide into small chunks, conquer, put it aside. Next, conquer, put
it aside, and then you get into the habit of this, you will love
it.
Amazing. What a beautiful point. Again, I'm going to respect your
time to end on as we've just covered the value of time to give
us that sound advice as I go off, it's so fleeting. I know from
watching the comments you've been mashallah, speaking for a good
stretch here, but the overwhelming majority of people on these on
these on this thread are very much they want you to you to continue.
And I think we're probably going to be asked to do more of these.
So Inshallah, I hope that you will schedule us in your very busy
schedule, so that people can further benefit from you in sha
Allah, I really appreciate you. Thank you for having us. having me
on your honor, really you all the people that are tuning in, may
Allah bless all of you, and protect you and increase you
during this pandemic and Allah get this disease, this airborne
disease Bismillah Alhamdulillah dorama as we share and fill out
there will be some I was singularly which is this is a
really good two hour that Shama said Hindi recommends for during
pandemic and also Imam had dads have it in the prophetic
invocation and Bismillah Alhamdulillah ly the romance
patient will have a lovely smile. Similarly three times in our
diplomatic light I met in Sharma HELOC three times these are the
two that the bare minimum that we have to do everyday for protect
Shouldn't from this airborne disease this this this this is for
for that purpose. Inshallah, may Allah protect everyone who's
watching this in their families and their loved ones from this
disease and anybody who's who's suffering from any kind of pain,
whether it's spiritual, mental, physical, and he's sicknesses. We
ask Allah to cure them to heal them because the healer is Allah.
Everything comes from Allah subhanaw taala in that anybody
who's struggling with Coronavirus right now amongst the Muslim you
mostly believers amongst the humanity, that Allah cured him and
heal them inshallah and and on the road to recovery back to their
homes insha Allah and Allah remove this May Allah make this a means
that people wake up and realize who Allah is the power of Allah
and get closer to Allah may this not go in vain that we go back to
our daily lives, as though nothing has happened may this be an
awakening of the soul and awakening of the heart inshallah
that we become better human being become people who would be more
beneficial to the society people who are kinder to our families and
our friends and our neighbors and people who are more generous
inshallah. So, may Allah protect all of you and increase you and
makes you amongst the Salah hemosol and make us amongst people
than in the European allies please join us in the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam looks at us with a smile in Parliament's inshallah Allah
Haven. Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah Thank you against that
vision. And again, if you have any further programs for people,
please let them know all of you who are on this, if you're, if you
haven't yet followed up, really, and I encourage you to follow him.
He's active on Instagram, as well as Facebook, mashallah, he's very
active and doing several programs. He's been doing them, so follow
him. And if you again, it shall have anything coming up. You said
mentioned something at four o'clock. Is that something for the
I'm doing a program, Sunday night, Sunday, the 19th at 8pm,
California time. It's called destiny, a journey to eternity.
And it's a program it's on my Instagram, I have the link there.
handled here for everybody to so it's, it is, it is there it is
basically what we got to talk about is about the lives of human
beings from pre eternal, from young Aleste, through the womb
through the world here after their judgment paradise in then, in
about just destiny, because a lot of people have question, you know,
can we change our destiny? Is it pre ordained or ready? Do I have a
choice? I have a choice, like, What are my choices? And then if I
don't have a choice, why am I being punished for no choice? So
we will shall try to go through some of the updated questions as
well, and have a q&a discussion afterwards. So it's eight o'clock.
It's it's Pacific Standard Time, right? So it's Pacific Standard
Time, California at 8pm. This Sunday, the 19th of this month, so
Inshallah, that if they go on my Instagram account, which is my
name's Ray doing so many ticks? Yes. Yeah. And then the link is
there that they can register, it's going to be through zoom, and a
Facebook and Instagram Live. So all 300 in our that I can't wait.
I think that's gonna be an amazing program. I'm so glad you let it
come. I appreciate that. And I want to say, I want to Before
closing, I want to say that, you know, we, those people who are on
this, watching it and has been following us, I John, for the
she's been serving this community for over two decades, and doing a
lot a lot of good work. And in some time, people don't really
appreciate the people they do work in the Edma. And for me, it's
beautiful. Because when people don't appreciate, Allah
appreciates, and more, right, so it's, I know you're doing it for a
lot, but you're doing a lot of good work. And, you know, people
need to support your project and listen, yeah, she has daily
reminders. And I know she's been doing counseling because I refer
to her at least 100 people in the past couple of years that they had
like mental breakdown suicidal teenagers, people who are leaving
Islam and confused as a Listen, go call her talk to her and she's
always been Yeah, she talked to them on the phone. She called in
Skype them answer the question, email them, and this is something
praiseworthy that you know, she's there with the community, she's
you know, and they're not someone that you can get a hold of her. So
we thank you for that for what you do, that we appreciate. And Allah
bless you. Thank you and I do count you as one of my teachers
you were the one of the first people to introduce me to this
beautiful tradition of ours i Although I was practicing I was
definitely in the dark until Alhamdulillah your service to this
community and our OMA by providing the classes and platform for our
beloved chef to teach. We credit you for that and many many many
more things so that's why I'm so again honored that you joined us.
Welcome Allah bless you, your family preserve you protect
su thank you for certainly for your time forgive us for taking so
much of it but I really hope this is the beginning of inshallah more
conversations with you I've benefitted tremendously from
listening to you and I've always said to people that mashallah you
are someone really with with an amazing, vast amount of knowledge
and wisdom and we truly truly are grateful for you. Thank you very
much Sokoloff. So I'm glad you can keep us in your doors in these
days blessed days inshallah Ramadan Mubarak to everyone in
advance
just like love hate, and again, everybody for being here, truly
appreciate you guys making a time. I know there's a lot of offerings
right now, in our community. And there's so many noble efforts may
Allah reward every single person who's using their platform, their
voice, to try to spread light to prepare people for this beautiful
month of Ramadan, please, I ask you and you know, Seth Rogen. He's
someone I know, he's a family member, but also someone I've
known for decades, very consistent person, Mashallah. He's done a lot
of good for our community. So please do check out his program
coming up on Sunday, follow him, make sure that you aren't, you
know, again, benefiting from the teachers that we have access to or
making themselves available, because we need it, we need to
support one another. This is a difficult time for our community
we're being tested. But there's also an incredible amount of
opportunity to draw closer to his father which is why I love what he
said what he said was so beautiful, and that nobody is cut
off from Allah subhanaw taala because we wouldn't have existence
if that was the case. So if you are feeling that there is you
know, a disconnect, that thought in and of itself is something we
need to remove rather, maybe we just need to awaken ourselves and
and just again, seize this incredible opportunity and draw
near to Allah subhanaw taala through reflection through
beautiful reminders as we were just given and of course to
holding on to our community so insha Allah may Allah protect and
preserve all of you I thank you so much again for spending time with
with us this afternoon. I'm just going to also mention because some
of you may not know we do have a program with the Rama foundation
later this evening at seven o'clock so in just a few hours, it
will be on a zoom and it's for women only sisters only. I'm not
sure if so the February's here but she is one of the founders of Rama
foundation she was here earlier, masha Allah may Allah bless her
we'll have Dr. Rania Awad sister Hanuman thought who is an amazing
again, a community member and person that everybody should know
of. For those who are asking about advice regarding youth, this would
be a good opportunity to listen to these teachers I will also be a
part of that conversation. So I invite you to check out my stories
I have the information on that 7pm Pacific Standard Time, there'll be
much more programming ahead, look out for it and inshallah we hope
again, to invite a Saturday June and others this is one of the
intentions I have now that I'm a little bit more familiar with the
Instagram lives, you know, format that I really want to start to
introduce and showcase beautiful people like him that I have been
blessed to know so that we can just spread the light inshallah
and hold us hold each other during this difficult time for our
community. So make the other inshallah we have no fear. And we
will see you on the next broadcast, just like morphin or
Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatu. Also, this will be live
for the next 24 hours. I know many of you have asked me to save the
recording two hours on my phone. I'm so sorry, I likely will not be
able to save it. I invite you to save it. If I'll try about I just
don't know if I'm going to be able to. So I invite you if there are
portions of the talk to go watch the live use the screen record
function on your iPhone or if you have an Android they might have
the same function I'm not sure and you can record segments or the
entire broadcast for the next 24 hours. If I am able to I will
absolutely save it and put it on IG TV if I'm not please forgive
me. But try on your own just like McLaughlin was said Mr.
McCullough, he died a little bit