Hussain Yee – Don’t Be Sad #105
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The holy Bible emphasizes the importance of staying connected to Jesus and reflecting on oneself to achieve success, and the need to be mindful of one's values and actions. The importance of gratitude and self-growth is emphasized, along with the need to be mindful of one's actions. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of acceptance of Islam's teachings and misunderstandings of cultural elements, and the need to educate people and fix mistakes to build a better understanding of Islam. There are ongoing events and activities for further learning.
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Alhamdulillah, I'm going to offer the Islamic greeting
once again because some of you
maybe are new, were not used to raise
up your voice in responding to the greeting
of peace.
And because Anwar al Balaamin in the holy
Quran remind the believers
meaning when anybody offer you the Islamic greeting,
you should respond with a better response, more
positive
response.
And how do you do it?
To make it very brief, when we give
you the complete salaam, you should raise up
your voice
louder than the one who offer.
Not only here but you are training yourself
to do it here
so wherever you are in the future, anybody
offer you the greeting of peace, you have
the
spirit.
There is a spirit.
All praises due to Allah rubellaalamin
for His blessing, His mercy
who have give us a lot of things
that we don't even ask from Him.
None of
us start by asking.
We just receive receive
for granted.
We we thought that it's my right.
May the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
also be upon all of us who have
been seeming,
who have been ungrateful,
unthankful,
keep on complaining
without,
thinking about how
blessed we are.
One of the most blessing,
the greatest blessing from Allah,
we were created as the best creation.
Number 1.
We are not just any creation.
The level that Allah have created all of
us is to the extent
that we are even higher
in stages than the angels,
that the angels all have to
make sujud to Adam
and we are the children, the offspring of
Adam.
That's how high
our stage is.
So brothers and sisters,
let us
always try our best to remember Allah.
Be grateful to Him, be thankful to Him,
and I'm going to recite the morning du'a
like usual
so that we don't forget
what to say early in the morning.
Even we are not
early in the morning now, almost reaching noon,
but never mind, we are still in the
morning
environment.
And let us recite this short
prayer recommended
by the Messenger of Allah
Allahummainna
nasalukaillmannafiya
warriscon
toiba
wamalan
mutakabala.
Minanar,
wajiruna
minanar.
Rabbanahatina
fidunya
a min yarabalamin.
We believe that all of us who have
memorized this
as card, this
du'a
in the morning, in the evening,
will try their best to understand the meaning.
Anything that you recite without understanding,
you cannot feel it.
It's like anything you do without knowledge,
you won't be satisfied.
Satisfaction
always come
when you know what you're doing.
Yeah.
So we have been asking Allah
to bless
our morning till our evening. We are not
in the evening yet, but we always have
that hope
that not only in the morning we are
okay,
we hope that Allah will make us healthy
until the evening,
so that we can enjoy
our life.
Some people in the morning, they're healthy.
In the evening,
they are not well anymore.
So things change,
climate change, weather change,
environment change,
but we always
pray for the best.
The same goal that we always want
the best in this life,
and that's why we hope our parents can
provide the best for
us, that government will provide the best for
us. That is what we want.
But in the same time, we must work
towards that.
We do not just sit down and hope
asking without doing anything.
You have to play your role.
Everyone have a responsibility.
The same go to, we will have to
die.
Nobody
will live forever.
And we know.
You can look at what is happening around
the globe today.
Sometimes people die for the wrong reason.
You've been wealthy,
you have everything
so popular,
you are an artist,
you are a leader,
you are so powerful at one time,
but then,
how long people remember you?
People may remember you
at the point of your death.
Maybe after 1 month,
after 1 year,
After that, new people will replace you,
new environment will come,
new kind of sport will be introduced,
new popular singer is going to replace you,
people don't remember you anymore,
people near remember the new one.
But
if you choose
to have a good ending
where Allah's
blessing is there.
It's like our prophet,
the companions of the Prophet,
the great scholar of Islam,
like the 4 imams, Abu Hanifa, Malik, Shafi'i,
Hanbali,
Great Ima, Imam Ghazali, Imam Nawawi.
None of us have met them, they have
passed away,
generation after generation,
1000 over years ago.
But we still remember them.
That is what we want.
Even the king,
King Faroe also was remembered,
but for the wrong reason.
Remember him in a bad way.
Yeah.
Anyhow,
that is life, brothers and sisters, and we
always
hope that we have a good ending.
Yeah.
Life is very short,
very very short.
There's a saying among the Malays, the no
santara.
In Malay, they said,
Alanka pandeya
hidok
How short is our life?
It's just between the call of prayer to
the prayer. Normally for the call of prayer
to the prayer,
to establish the prayer, how long?
10, 15, 20 minutes.
People got a comma and Jama'at prayer will
start.
That is how short.
Why they say that?
Traditionally,
when a newborn baby,
everybody normally who
don't really understand the sunnah the prophet
will start to call azan,
in ear of the new baby.
Azan,
so that he hear the word of Allah.
And when you die,
people will
depart with you through the prayer.
Samayang janaza, the funeral prayer.
So that's why they say azan and prayer.
Yeah. That's how short.
But because of this dunya
make us so busy,
we forget.
And that's why in Islam,
we must reflect
on and off.
It's very good to be alone
and reflect.
Isolation
brings a lot of goodness. You have time
to revisit
yourself.
You have time
to make moha sabah,
yeah, because if not too busy,
everybody is busy with their dunya,
cooking, talking,
you know,
doing work,
mixing around, traveling,
good when there is some time for you
to be alone,
reflect.
If you go back to the history, a
lot of all prophets
will have to go through Kalaewa.
And there's a lot of cases like in
the west,
the people who went into prison,
they can accept Islam faster
because there is a time they are very
free.
No. No other activities except wait for order.
So there's a time
Muhammad Ali Klee became a Muslim.
Mike Tyson became a Muslim.
When they're in,
nobody can visit them anymore.
No more friends.
They and their 4 walls.
Now they start to reflect,
and when people start to introduce God to
them,
suddenly they realize
how important
for us to stay connected to the Almighty,
the Creator, the all knowing, the all seeing,
the provider.
Yeah.
Alhamdulillah.
So we hope a lot of Blalamin
keeps on
guiding us,
We ask for the best.
We must work towards the best.
You want to pass an exam? You have
to prepare yourself.
You want to be successful, you want to
be rich, you have to do work.
Be creative.
Be hardworking
and people acknowledge your strength,
your commitment, your sincerity,
then people will start to believe in you.
But I always say,
when you travel
to Australia, for example,
there's a place,
the Golden Coast, the Gold Coast.
Gold Coast
is
a very beautiful area,
yeah.
Riverside,
seaside, all the side side.
Yeah. And all the villas,
huge.
This is
the place for the rich,
and the rich
don't stay there.
They have the big villa,
they have swimming pool, jacuzzi, everything next to
the river.
Next to the
sea, they still have all this indoor.
But because when you are good,
work hard,
committed,
they trust you,
then they employ you and you become the
caretaker.
Can you imagine?
1 year maybe, 1 month they will be
there. 11th month is yours.
You have nothing.
You are poor in your country, Philippines, Indonesia,
you are nobody.
But now you are living in villa.
That is yours.
11 months, you enjoy.
Just example. Because of your,
yeah, your dignity,
because you are a good person, Allah will
reward you from a different angle that you
don't even imagine.
You cannot imagine.
You may have a lot of money at
home, but you don't live in the kind
of luxurious
lifestyle, but
I'm not giving it to you because you
have good quality.
Now
let us come back to the book.
According to
the reference,
we are supposed to be on page
175
to deal.
Yeah. Same, 175.
Which one? Containment. Containment
repels
sadness.
Okay.
Now before that if you go back,
yeah,
the subtitle,
as long as you have life's
basic necessity,
don't be sad.
Yeah. It is very important. We know nobody
can escape from sadness.
Nobody can escape.
When you're not well, you feel sad. You
don't get what you want, you feel sad,
you know.
Your good friend suddenly
abandoned you, you feel sad. When you fail,
you feel sad,
you know.
Everything. When you're going to work suddenly,
your bike have problem, you feel sad.
When you wait for somebody and he always
late,
you feel sad. You
know?
You're driving your own car, traffic jam, you
feel sad again.
When you come to the corner, people don't
allow you to go because they are in
the main road, they just pretend not to
see you, you feel sad. Why they don't,
yeah, give me some time. Stop. Oh, let
me come out.
And,
but that is their right because they are
in the middle. You cannot get angry. You
just have to have patience.
Sometimes
Allah will open the heart of somebody,
they slow down,
then
move.
But again, when they slow down, you're busy
with your handphone.
Now you don't move, and then they start
to move again.
You see, all of this problem,
if you do not
know how to move on,
you will be sad.
Wherever you are, whatever you do,
you experience
sadness.
So as long as you have the basic
necessity,
yeah,
Be grateful. Be thankful.
Okay?
Now,
When you are not well, you go for
advice, seek advice, you went for a doctor,
you also feel sad
because the doctor may give you the wrong
medicine sometimes.
They look at you and they give you
the wrong advice.
Then you go to another doctor, then you
realize,
you went to the wrong doctor.
So all this, you know, will cause
sadness to all of us, you know.
When you're trying to do something good and
they don't appreciate, you feel sad.
Yeah.
Contentment
repels
sadness.
How to overcome sadness?
Must we
feel sad in life?
Sadness is part of life.
Nobody can escape.
Nobody can escape.
It's how do you
overcome sadness?
How you make sure that everything that you
feel that is not good for you become
good?
Number 1, Allah did mention in the Quran,
waasa
And Allah knows
what we know is not. There are times
you want this.
You work towards this because that is what
you want.
You love these things so much,
but Allah is telling us thing that you
love so much
is not good for you.
There's thing that you don't like at all.
Ask the children today,
do you like to eat
vegetable?
I like
I only like chicken, chicken, chicken, all chicken.
Everywhere chicken. Don't you like veggie? No.
Ask them, do you like to eat bitter
cod?
Bitter, the word bitter,
I feel bitter already.
Before swallowing it, I feel bitter.
You don't like, you always like chocolate,
ice cream, this cream, that cream,
you know,
But what did Allah say? Things that you
don't like is good for you.
Things that you like is not good for
you. You know
nothing except with the knowledge of Allah. If
Allah grant you the knowledge you value.
Wow.
Everything in life, there must be a balance.
You enjoy
protein,
you enjoy carbon, you must enjoy
veggie, fiber,
all these things, balance.
You love to eat. Who don't love to
eat?
Everybody love to eat.
After food, you know,
the food that is inside
your tummy now
need to burn. How do you burn?
You sleep in the oven
or and burn your body? Barbecue?
No.
You have to move. You have to work
hard. You have to sweat.
You walk.
Yeah, you run,
you do what you have to do. All
these
parts of our body
is like an engine.
It needs to move,
but you just enjoy eating.
Sitting eating, sitting eating, sleeping eating, sleeping.
Now you know which muscle is growing very
fast.
The part that we don't like it to
grow, it grow by itself.
Suddenly you got shock, you know.
Area that we want you to grow chest,
bicep, tricep, never grow.
Yeah.
And many men become pregnant because of that,
for the wrong reason. Yeah.
Contentment
repels sadness.
Now, how to attain
contentment?
That's why the prophet
has shared with us
the book will share something but I'm going
to add something that is not in the
book.
The prophet wanted they said, Leysse lakina
ankasratil
arb.
Richness, happiness
is not because you have a lot of
money
because you are rich. Normally people value
success through
money, but money make you arrogant,
yeah.
Money makes you
so proud of yourself, become so selfish.
You just think of yourself yourself. So stingy,
yeah, and so on.
But the prophet said, walapinon
gyna yunas.
The real happiness, real richness
is you are contented with what you have.
You know? People who are poor, they can
sleep anywhere.
They are so used to it.
You know? When they are tired, bismillah,
you Allah.
Know, they're gone.
People who are rich,
very difficult to sleep,
yeah,
Without aircon collapse, they suffer the whole night.
We experienced that too. Yeah. We used to
have aircon.
Suddenly,
you have
electric problem.
You don't feel comfortable at all.
Yeah. But people who are not used to
echolines. They are used to sleep and open
window, everything open.
For us, it is very hard to sleep
with an open window.
Fear.
We fear other things will come in.
The poor guy had nothing to fear. Who
want to rob him?
No.
So contentment is very important.
You're
healthy.
You know, you can walk. You can eat.
You can talk.
You can see the day now,
all is a blessing from Allah,
and that's why Allah also said to us,
la inshaqartung
la azeeda nakum. If you are always grateful
and thankful, what ever you have now,
you have all the necessity, you should be
grateful and thankful compared with people who are
worse than you,
Then Allah will increase his blessing upon you.
You have inner peace now.
You have done your best.
You see how Amal keep on reminding,
the Quran is a best
reminder.
That's why Allah said,
wazakirfa
inna zikratanfaalmuq,
meaning
remind each other.
With the reminder of Allah,
you are sure
to gain a lot of benefits.
There's a lot of good things will happen.
Just remember
what Allah wants you to do.
The creator is here to guide you, to
remind you.
Allah know that we human we keep on
forget.
Your parent remind you what to do after
some time you forget.
You remember what your friend want you to
do more than what your parent want you
to do.
Why?
Because you put everything to your friend.
You think your friend is everything.
You only know who is your friend when
you are not well.
When you are
down, who is there for you?
Who will be there for you? This your
friend will come up for you. I'm sorry.
Who will be there? Your parent.
Who will be there? Your loved one, your
relative,
your grandparent.
They will be there for you, good time,
bad time.
Friend is friend.
They just
need you for comfort,
not for real.
This is very important,
So that's why learn how to be grateful
and be thankful
with what you have.
You can sleep well.
You can eat. You can drink.
You have enough food, all the necessities,
hamdulillah.
Children today,
compared with our life before,
very very different.
Because our parents don't pamper us, work
for it.
You have to wash your own uniforms,
school uniform, your shoes, everything.
No maid is there for you.
No washing machine.
You wash your own.
Your hand is your machine.
It's good. Sometimes you feel quiet,
but much Can you imagine now?
You can do all these things by yourself,
all handmade organic,
no machine.
Because you have been doing it,
the environment before help you to be tough,
to be independent,
to be strong,
to say, yes, I can do. There's nothing
that I cannot do if I want to
do.
That's how you move on.
Don't depend on anybody.
Yeah.
How do we go to school before?
Either we walk
the best transport,
bicycle.
If you got a bicycle, mash up or
like a car today.
Today you give them
proton.
Proton local one.
I want something,
BMW,
Musk, Ferrari.
Stuff like that.
We are so
ungrateful
because we are not
contented.
We are not
grateful and thankful.
Yeah.
Now let us continue.
Contentment
repels
sadness. The messenger of Allah, Prophet Muhammad, son
of a Muslim
said we do not say other than that
which please our Lord.
Anytime you want to say anything,
say thing that please Allah, be grateful
and people, how are you today? What is
our response?
First thing,
You don't say, how are you today? I
don't know.
You don't know what what
you are is happening. You know.
Just say it alhamdulillah.
Because you are still alive,
you can see the new day,
you know.
And today is what day?
Wednesday.
And also be known as what day?
Yeah?
VESSAK Day. You have so many days now.
They don't know. People create so many things
in life today. You know? Our time, you
don't have all this, but today we have
VSAT Day, and then you have Good Friday,
and then you have Mother's Day, and you
have Father's Day, and then you have the
Labor Day, and then you have birthday, this
birthday, that birthday, so many birthday.
So many day
make us become very unproductive.
No?
That's why
we are not a very productive country
because
I think in the whole world, we have
the most holiday. Because
we have so many day,
state level, national level,
when we win the football or any game,
then we have another day again,
so many days we get confused sometimes,
yeah.
So
we do not say other than which please
our Lord and Allah love people who are
grateful and be thankful
even the little that you have.
That's why the early in the morning, the
minute you can open your eye
and you can move,
you can sit, what do you say?
All praises due to Allah. Due to Abu
Hu have given me life after my death,
and to him I'm going to return soon
or later.
There's a first thing you call Allah.
We may have memorized this du'a, but how
many of us reflect towards this du'a? Understand
what do you mean by that?
Allah gives you a life again, a new
day to do what?
To do something that pleased Him.
It's like if you're given another day
to make your parent happy, should you do
that?
Do you want to do that?
Do.
Because when you keep on doing all the
good thing there are more blessing.
You become more happier
and one day you become parent
and because we have been doing all the
good thing, now your children will make you
happier.
That's what we want.
You want happiness,
you must do what you can, especially
be
thankful
you still have parents,
be dutiful to them,
yeah, help them, make them happy,
engage with them.
Then one day when you become parent, Allahu
Akbar,
your children start to, you know, help you,
respect you, talk to you,
is always there for you,
then your children also have their children,
and that is how you continue.
That's why the prophet said, kairun nas karami
sum malazin yaluna home sum malazin yaluna home.
The best group of people are the people
who live in my time
because they follow the divine guidance.
They are grateful, they are thankful, and their
life is so minimum
but no complaint.
The same goes to the next generation
and the next generation.
After that,
things change.
We are so spoiled, so pampered.
The weaknesses came from where? Came from us
as adults,
elders.
We start a lot to give you more
and more, you start to give more and
more without
educating
them.
Without reminding the children
be grateful,
be thankful,
because you have more than what we have
before. You must remember
what you are having now
is 2 300 percent more than what we
have.
Our parent leaves nothing for us. We start
from
ground 0,
but alhamdulillah,
we never give up. They make us strong
and we work hard, and that's where we
are now.
Now we are giving all of you so
many things.
We hope that you will be grateful. You
should be thankful.
Your lifestyle has changed.
Yeah.
This is just an example.
Upon you is a sacred duty to surrender
yourself to what is preordained
for you.
If you fulfill this duty, you will be
successful
in the long run.
That's why
Omar Ibn
Said to us,
the day will come
either today,
tomorrow,
only Allah knows.
What is preordained
by Allah unseen to us? We don't see
our
future.
We can plan for our future,
but we can't see.
It's kadak and kadara.
You just prepare yourself,
and then this is what, yeah, the meaning
surrender.
Allah
said,
The word Islam,
Muslim,
salim
means
surrender.
Submit
to the Creator.
What do we mean by surrender and submit?
Not just raise up your hand, call us.
No.
You have to do what I want you
to do.
It's like in a war when you are
you surrender to your enemy,
then you just have to follow them. If
not, they are going to torture you more.
They said stand, you stand, sit, sit.
You just have to follow,
then
they will not
torture you further. But if you go against
them,
then you know what is gonna happen.
Learn how to surrender
because the day will come, Allah said,
even you have all your money,
even you have all the children, how many
children have? 10. How many grandchildren?
24.
Wow.
You know, very productive
family.
Nothing wrong. Nothing wrong. You survive.
When Allah ordained that you are going to
live,
Allah prepared for your
provision. Risk, Allah will prepare.
Don't fear
of hunger.
You fear that you get poor,
then you'll kill your
offspring.
You abort.
Oh, I'm not ready, you know, I don't
know, I'm ready or not, I have enough,
enough. Stakfirullah,
alaazim.
If Allah had granted you
a child,
accept it.
The feeling of fear should not come to
you.
Even the feeling of fear.
Meaning
it's not that you are facing poverty, you
fear that you'll get poorer.
You should not.
Why?
We are the provider
for you,
for your parent, your great grandparent,
and we will provide for the newborn.
Just
do what you have to do. Submit to
Allah.
The day will come,
even you have all the children, all the
wealth, all the security,
nothing can save you anymore.
Nothing
can protect you,
except Illa man atolla
bikalb bin salim,
except those who have learned how to submit
to Allah,
to surrender themselves, oh Allah.
I came from you,
I'm yours,
I have to return back to you. Whether
I like it or not, I'm ready or
not, I have to return back to you.
So when you have prepared yourself,
how do you surrender,
meaning
whatever Allah wants us to do, try your
best to do.
Whatever
is hidden now, stay away.
Is that easy?
How do you feel, brother? Is it is
that easy?
When your parents sit sleeping hours, sleeping time
off your life, is that easy?
Is that easy?
Very hard,
Why?
Now you also we we have another strategy.
Okay. No problem. Light off off because I
have another thing.
That thing is on always.
What is that?
The small gadget.
You call the smartphone.
That phone is very smart. Correct.
But we are not smart.
We have been addicted. Can you imagine?
We let this small thing control your rest.
Time for you to sleep. No. No. I'm
not going to there is a time I'm
going to be very very active.
Your body have right upon you. Please remember.
Be grateful that Allah made night for you
to rest. Night for you to rest.
Look at what Allah said, I make night
for you to rest,
day for you to work,
And you must remember you also have your
enemy,
day enemy, night enemy.
The shaitan also take shift. Shaitan don't work
247,
you know. They take shift too.
There was a shift. Margaret come in, the
day's
gang
gone.
They return back.
And then the night shift came.
At least they have 2 shifts,
but we,
our life day is for you to work,
night for you to rest.
But children, very hard to rest at night
today.
Yeah?
That's why day they become very unproductive,
tired.
When people went to work, he went to
sleep. Yeah.
If you have this habit,
you will be having a lot of problem
in the future.
Number 1, most of the office work daytime.
How can you work? You are so tired,
sleepy,
because you don't sleep at night.
You have to organize yourself, learn how to
submit to Allah. Remember what Allah want you
to do. Try your best to do it.
Your only escape is to believe
in qada and qadah, preordainment.
You must believe that Allah create everything and
he ordained
everything
according to what he has created.
Every living thing will end,
sooner or later will die.
Day also will be covered by night. Night
will also cover,
will be taken over by daytime.
This is what is being caught up, the
preordainment.
Since whatever has been decreed,
you just
cannot escape
is going to take place,
and
the only way
you have to go back to Allah to
seek protection.
That's why one of the prayer that the
prophet recommend all of us highly to recite
every day
in our prayer,
the 5 prayers
or
the sunnah prayer
before you end your prayer after the Tahiyat,
the last tachahood,
what do you
say?
Why? Why did the prophet want you to
make this prayer?
Because this is the reality that you have
to face
today. Ask Allah to save you, protect you
from hellfire.
Ask Allah to protect you from the torment
of the grave
because it's real, it's real, it's true. It's
not just
hearsay, but it's true.
It's going to happen.
And ask Allah to protect you
from the trial of this world,
and also protect you after your departure because
after you die, if you leave something bad
behind,
you know what is going to happen to
your children.
They will have to suffer.
People will talk bad about you,
and you are the descendants.
People say, you know what, this,
his father,
his mother,
who
you all don't know how terrible they are,
how corrupted they are,
where are you going to
put your faith?
That's why sometimes
the non Muslims,
when the people start to wear their *,
the sisters try to cover their face.
They don't understand why.
They start to make their own conclusion, they
whisper among themselves.
I think they have some problem with their
face,
their face, they have got scared, maybe got
scar here, don't look beautiful, that's what they
cover.
How I
know? Because normally when we go for shopping
and then you have the Chinese lady talking
among themselves,
and then you have your own sister who
are very makeup,
I understand Chinese, you know, and then they
talk Chinese, oh, okay.
Then suddenly I would just put, you do
not know how beautiful these sisters are, you
know, but their beauty is not to show
to everybody.
I just want
to make them feel, you know, don't
pass that kind of judgment. It's not correct.
Maybe some people may also have that problem,
scar here and there, so they cover themselves
for a good cause.
So people don't talk, what, what happened to
you?
You know?
Maybe.
Yeah.
So always
remember there are some, even
non Muslim, who are
making research about reality of
life,
then they say, from where has the idea
come to us we say that a luxurious
stable life
free from obstacle and hardship
creates prosperous,
prosperous and great men. Where do these ideas
come? Do you think
people who are rich and they have no
problem?
You don't even know their problem.
Maybe they're running away from problem, they're hiding,
they try to hide their problem,
but one day when the authority comes after
them,
they are like fugitives. Sometimes the lives of
these so called
rich people, they are like a fugitive.
They don't feel free like us. We
have more freedom to move around.
Nobody bother about us.
For them they cannot.
They must have bodyguard the minute their car
stops at any place they cannot just come
out.
They need a bodyguard to come and open
their door for them, make sure every
for us, you open your door,
you know. You walk anywhere, you feel so
free.
Nobody look at you,
you know.
You can eat freely
anywhere, any shop.
For them they cannot.
They don't know what is Warung Warung. What
is Pasamalam? They don't know.
Insha'Allah
we can go Pasamalam,
Pasam Siang, Pasam Basa, Pasar Tring, or you
just sit.
We are so free to move around.
Do you think that is a blessing?
You are still sad?
You shouldn't be sad.
You should be more happier.
The case is always
opposite.
Those who have made a habit of living
the easy life
will continue
to further develop lazy habit
as they go on in this life.
History witnesses that greatness has surrendered
its reign to men of different background.
In general, I just want to end,
yeah. Allah who created us, who are aware
about everything
He knows about our future,
He just keeps on reminding us.
What is the reminder?
Yeah, Allah repeat that.
Remember,
real life starts with
some difficulty,
but after every hardship and difficulty,
when you keep on moving forward,
don't give up hope.
Allah prepare the ease.
Eaves come later.
Ask ourselves
when we are young, when our parents want
to send us to school, do you like
to go to school?
I like to sleep, Mama.
Wake up. Wake up.
I want to sleep.
Go to school. School is,
people, my friends bully me,
they do this to me.
I don't like to go to school.
But that parent don't
follow your liking.
They will make sure you go to school.
That's why sometimes
they will send you to school
and while you are in the car, you
sleep again.
They don't mind. They make sure you go
to school.
Why? Because they know
you need to go around. You need to
go out.
You need to learn. You have to mix
around.
Learn the skill of survival from young, and
if they are still alive healthy, they will
coach you, they will guide you, they will
be there to protect you when you need,
but they want you to be tough.
They want you to be ready. When they
are no more here, you can survive better.
That's why I always,
when I talk about this I recall how
my upbringing,
My father died when I was 9 years
old.
I don't have any
good feeling yet at that time, too young
to feel.
But my mom is a very hard working
woman.
She never pampered the children. Work hard.
You want something, work for it.
So while I'm going to school,
I also do some small business. What business?
Selling ice cream.
You know, that time you have to hold
and
you know with the jug, with the like,
you know, the small kind of,
what you call it, I I can't remember,
so,
yeah.
It's like the cooler, you know, you just
carry on and then put the bell.
And screen screen, how how much? 10¢.
5¢.
That
time. 5¢.
Now,
Astaghfirullah,
things have changed.
But that made me feel happy, you know,
I worked for it.
Ibn al ossriyusro.
Remember
hardship
make you tougher,
you find ease in the future, you know
how to survive.
Yeah. And I learned what? I learned they
call the Chinese called, chakang.
Be a handy person.
You want me to cut grasses, I learned
how to cut.
You want me to cut tree, I learn
how to cut tree.
You want me to pluck flower, I pluck
flower.
You know what time I climbed the tree
to pluck flower?
Because I was not yet Muslim.
Before 6 AM, I'm up into the tree
now,
because that flower become,
look better at that time.
If you're late,
people will climb and they're gonna sell.
Yeah. They got people who just pick up
flower.
What kind of flower?
We have the tree with with us until
now,
but that tree when it grow very big
and suddenly
we have experience.
I thought I am the earliest because I
get more flower if I go up early.
Suddenly, I saw somebody
who was earlier than me,
you know,
and suddenly
when I came down, I don't saw him
anymore.
That stopped me from climbing
very early,
you know.
I was suddenly some somebody is still old,
more earlier than me.
So when he came down, I was waiting
for him to come down, he never came
down.
You know what is that?
We also don't know.
Is another friend there? Only Allah knows.
Yeah.
There's a lot of alien everywhere.
From that, they know, like, I cannot come
so early.
You have another friend,
who sometimes you see them, someday he's gone.
We experience so many things, alhamdulillah. When very
young, I experience so many things.
It's their gene, of course.
They always
gene was created before us.
Yeah.
So
who
who were those that carried the flag of
divine guidance in the early day of Islam.
They were the freed slave,
the poor, and the destitute.
A lot of people who free themselves is
not because
they are the slave
of God first, they are the slave of
human.
So when you have your freedom,
it's a great blessing.
Now it's up to us
to move forward
and be guided, carry the flag of the
divine guidance.
Hold to Islam.
Islam is here to free you
from a servant to the dunya,
a slave from human,
a slave to your own desire
to become the slave
of Almighty,
the creator, Allahu Bulalameen.
And move on.
At the end of the day you will
find happiness,
you have a lot of experiences
in life,
and you're ready to help other people because
you have learned, you have gone through all
the challenges,
all the difficulty of life, so nothing is
considered difficult anymore. But those who have never
gone through
this difficulty,
one day
face difficulty, they drop.
I don't want anymore. I cannot.
They give up very very fast,
but those who keep on going,
I just do my level best.
What I can, I do?
What I can't, I pray.
There's a connection between you and the creator
and everyone
has a limit.
Nobody can say I can do everything.
Anybody tell you that he can do everything,
just be very careful.
You don't argue with them but just be
careful. Nobody can say he can do everything.
Yeah,
and when our clear verses
are recited to them, those who disbelieve,
even the rich and the strong among the
pagan of Koresh who live in a life
of luxury,
say to those
who believe, they say to the believer,
the weak one because the believer to them
they are the weak one, the poor companion
of the prophet,
someone must have known.
Now Allah is telling us
which of the 2 group,
the believer or the disbeliever
is best in position
and station placed in the council
for consultation.
Even to learn anything you learn from those
who have gone through some hardship, they will
tell you the reality of life. They know
and they can guide you better,
but if you
just follow the other group they will corrupt
you, That's why Allah said, cut off la
haman zakaha
wakatkawba
bandasaha.
Yeah. Success
is for those who keep themselves pure and
clean,
uncorrupted.
The ones that will start to fail themselves
are those
who allow themselves to be corrupted.
Sometimes we are not a corrupted person.
We wear uniform custom,
uniform
police.
You know corruption is forbidden.
It's haram.
It's wrong, 100%
wrong,
and you are not there to be corrupted.
You are there to uphold
law and order.
Right is right, wrong is wrong,
but then
the people start to corrupt you. Correct?
You cannot go out and say, give me
money, if not I'm going to arrest you.
You can't do that.
So you stop them when they break the
law,
and then you talk to them.
You can talk to them. Do you know
you break the law just now?
Do you know you overspeed?
Why you do that? Talk to them.
You know the danger, you know why we
put a speed limit, it's for your safety.
Not only for you, safety for the other
people too.
You cannot just think of yourself,
oh you know, sir, I'm so hurry because
some emergency.
If they give you some good reason
and it makes sense to you,
warn them, please don't do it again. Okay?
I let you go now.
You know how
they will react.
How do they feel?
They feel so grateful
because you are not
forcing them to corrupt you
and they will start to, you know, license?
Okay, license.
I see. I see. Now, more you ask,
they they plus something there.
License,
I see
plus
some
extra notes.
You
know?
So they thought about by when you receive
that note that means you don't ask for
any document anymore.
Normally
they start to corrupt the officer, not the
officer. Some
some officers, yeah, they use another
way of communication.
So
what do we think? How do we want
to settle this problem?
They start to ask you, how are we
going to settle?
Simple. If you know that I'm wrong, I
admit I'm wrong.
If you still want to charge me, you
just give me a ticket.
But if you think that you should,
you know,
forgive me, and then you talk to me,
I will remember you.
If you allow me to * your
name and everything, I would do that, but
you don't want,
you know,
I would remember you.
How blessed I am today. You know, that,
you know, God gave me a man who
are so
who have dignity to advise me and he's
not here to make my life difficult.
If we are Muslim do we pray for
him?
We'll pray for him. Thank you, zakamalokay
brother.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
We will remember this good man. Even don't
remember his name, we remember
that person.
There are more blessings in that than you
just take money.
And that's why Allah said,
those who are successful
are those who keep themselves
uncorrupted.
Clean,
good,
but one you're exposed to corruption and collapse.
You don't gain respect. No more dignity. You
have sell
and sow your dignity
because of dunya. Don't do that.
Yeah. Right is right. Wrong is wrong. Even
they are wrong. You can forgive them.
And Allah keep on guiding us by saying,
and they say we are more in wealth
and in children and we are not going
to be punished. There always those who have
more thought that they can buy everything.
They thought that they can buy paradise. They
can corrupt angel of death. No.
Do you think when angel of death comes
at please, angel, what do you want? You
want 1,000? 1,000. I give 5,000.
Yeah. Come back, make time.
You think angel of death will
accept that offer?
Number 1, angel of death don't talk to
you.
Your time come, he just come and he
just take off your soul. Para.
No communication.
Angel of death only can communicate with prophet,
not to all of us.
Prophet, they have to. They have to seek
his permission first.
Are you ready?
You say,
yes. They'll pull their soul.
To us, if they come, are you ready?
Never ready,
you know.
Allah continued to tell us, thus we have
tried some of them with others that they
might
say, is is it this poor believer that
Allah favor from among us?
Does not Allah know best
those who are grateful?
They try to look down upon the believer.
They thought the believer are stupid people,
no the
believer are poor. No. We look
at richness from a different angle.
We can be rich in this dunya but
still we are humble
and we are rich in our dignity,
you know.
That is the believer's value.
That's why we always ask,
We want to be successful here and successful
in the hereafter.
Not only here.
For those who were arrogant, they always said,
verily we believe in that which you believe
in. Yeah.
They will also say like what you want
them to say, you know. One thing I
would like to remind
after this inshallah,
and they said, why is not the Quran
sent down to some great men of the
2 towns, Moqah and Taw'if?
Ta'if. Is it they who should or who
would portion out the mercy of our Lord
or your Lord?
So people will give excuses sometimes when they
don't want to follow, they give you excuse.
Why like this? Why like that?
Why not God send angel to us? Why
must he send you, oh Muhammad,
and you are from the poor guy, you
don't have parent, Your father died before you
are born. After you are born, then your
mother died you are an orphan.
You're nobody.
Don't God have a better person to send?
You keep
excusing.
When you don't want to follow, you create,
you make accu- excuses.
This and that. We don't have time to
entertain,
yeah.
And that's why
there is a saying,
despite being a slave I am a noble
chief,
and despite being black in color
I have a white character.
Some of the great thinkers used to say,
even I'm the slave of our Lord, but
I can be a noble chief
because people
appointed me,
believed in me because of my good character.
Character have more value than just
money,
power,
because money, power, corrupt.
But when you have a good character, value
in life,
you have dignity.
That is your wealth.
That is your strength.
All profit was sent
to make sure that we
develop this,
your personality.
Yeah,
character building, akhlaq,
adapt.
Then wherever you go,
people honor you, respect you, whatever you say,
people listen because of your personality.
But if you have power all this and
only Allah knows. Look at what happened to
the whole world today.
President here, president there,
yeah, the leader of this country, leader of
their country.
People don't respect anymore.
You can be proud of who you are
with all the bodyguard travel here and there,
with all your private jet, private security,
because you are not secure.
You live in fear.
You don't know. You thought that you are
great, no.
Look at the humble people
who are whole to their dignity, their principle
of life.
People will refer to them,
people listen to them,
and this is very important in life.
Lastly, brothers and sisters,
before we go to Q and A, please
remember
what makes us so different,
just don't forget the Suratul Kaffirun.
Don't forget this Sura.
In this life, you have
do and don't always.
You have the believers way of life and
the disbeliever
way of life.
At the end of the day, kuliyaayo kafiron
end with 1 ayat.
That
is the limit.
There is a line drawn.
You have your way,
your style, we have our way.
Now things are getting more confused.
The disbeliever
have their own prayer, let them pray what
they believe.
We have our own prayer,
Neither we cross their border, neither we should
allow them to cross
into our border, no?
You understand what I'm going I'm sharing with
you, Brian and sister? Things are getting more
confused. I don't know what is happening to
us today.
Both parties are so confused.
The disbelief also were confused
and the believers will get confused.
They create their own
religion now.
Yeah. That we can be together.
Allah makes it very clear, lakum deenu kum
mariadin.
The prophet said, whoever
follows
their way, you become one of them. Kalas,
you want to follow it, it's up to
you,
but you don't have the right to claim
that no I'm still like this no no
no.
You follow their way, you go.
This make us unique.
If they can do all this together, they
can pray and say everything together.
One day they can sit down and eat
together, they can gamble together, they can do
everything together.
When Shirk is allowed,
then what is all this minor minor sin?
And the shaitan whisper is okay, you know,
you know, you just take 1 sipuni, small
class.
You don't get drowned. You don't get drunk.
Don't worry, don't worry.
It's good to taste, you know, and you
understand what is wine.
Think that as haram you don't have to
taste.
I've seen some people.
When? That is when I was traveling before.
When? That was almost in the late seventies.
I stayed in a house belonging to a
not yet Muslim,
a good person.
They allowed us to stay with them for
a while,
and there is also some Muslim who was
there.
Suddenly, he
he ate what the people ate.
Everything goes.
Here got no lot, no pop.
Here pork and lad, everything there,
and he also eats.
So I was taking a
you know what you're eating? Oh yes, in
the beginning,
I was not used to it but after
that, I'm used to it.
Can you imagine?
If you allow yourself to cross the line,
one line you cross,
to cross and then the line is much
easier because you have gone through. You have
experienced a little. It's okay. It's just an
enemy. Of course.
Of course it's just an anemic.
But Allah said, who will wash rabu, halal?
Eat, drink what is halal?
Muhammad gave very clear.
There's so many halal thing for you to
eat, why must you go to that anger?
But this guy,
very simple guy,
humble tell me I never eat before.
But they keep on try, try, it's just
another meat, so one day I try.
I try with a bite only.
Now you go to some supermarket they have
bite, b I t e s.
Try, but oh, just another meat. Of course
it tastes different from what you eat before,
but it's a meat,
and because he feels that it's a limit,
later on, become numb.
So I are we going to follow him?
No.
He become a victim,
I'm not going to become like him. Lakungdi
no kung,
wali yadi.
So please remember,
there are areas that we can compromise,
there are areas that we must say,
no.
Don't cross the borderline.
That's why we said Hudut.
That is what Hudut means.
Hudut means
the limitation.
Yeah? May Allah protect our iman and our
children,
and protect our country,
protect our leaders,
protect our grandchildren,
our family wherever they are,
and protect the people who is
fighting for their right in Palestine
and Gaza, Amin. If there's any question, now
we're open for q and a. Fata Fata.
Any
two questions, we're entertained today.
This is my father's question. However,
he's, out of the country. Okay. This is
regarding reciting.
Yeah. Okay.
So my father,
every time he prays in KL,
they would
they would recite the
in the,
after the Friday prayer.
But from what I know, it is said
during emergency cases.
So can you please advise when it's appropriate,
when,
Kunut Nazeela is recited?
Kunut Nazeelah, normally they recite the last raka'at
of the prayer?
Yes.
My father says that it's recited in
the,
Friday prayer
in KL,
but he,
he isn't used to it because we used
to live in Oman. And when he does
Friday prayers,
it's not recited there. Yeah.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam did allow and
taught
us to do Kunat Nazeelah.
Of course the Kunat Nazeelah, the content differ
from one time to another time.
Ask Allah for protection,
to help the Ummah,
and when the Kulud Nasirah
is been,
is going on
it will be performed in every prayer.
But it's not something that you do continuously.
Yes? After some time,
then we can stop.
Yeah, it's not something that you do it
continuously. The prophet himself does
Kunut Nazeelah for 1 whole month.
Each prayer,
the last raka'at,
but then
Allah
called him to stop.
Leave it to Allah now.
You can do it in any other
prayer, like after the father's prayer, if you
still need, like how we do it while
we are giving a talk, we remember,
our family who are suffering so we just
make a normal prayer, may Allah protect them.
The whole,
intention of Qudut Nazeelah
is to seek Allah's help.
Not necessary to be too long, you know,
but I think
for us to keep on continuing
doing it,
yeah,
it's not recommended
but you can do your
prayer,
make dua
anytime.
While you're in the car, you remember them,
you heard something
that is happening again, make prayer, no problem.
But not something that you do it continuously.
We hope that the people know the limit
and try to follow the best way, and
the best way is the way that the
prophet has taught us.
Okay? Alright.
Last,
there's one, sister.
You know, now this
on YouTube,
our time is so limited in in a
day. Right? Correct. And, and there's a lot
of information
on the YouTube that we can listen to.
I mean, we come to classes like this,
you know, only when we can.
So I I spend a lot of time
too listening,
in the in the bathroom, you know, because
it's you spend a lot of where, you
know, you in the car, for example, you
know, you you find time. Okay.
To to gain knowledge. Okay. But I find
that sometimes when you
you're listening to some of the,
trauma, you know, on,
in the bathroom,
you hear, I mean, they use Verses of
the Quran. Verses of the Quran and all
that. So are we allowed to
how how No.
Not not in the environment.
Because sometimes when you listen, you don't know
that they're going to recite something from that.
No. No. Normally, you don't. You just don't
bring that thing inside.
Or don't don't listen to any of the
You are there to do some business, just
focus on your business. I see. Yeah. We
know sometimes we thought that we may have
some extra time while we are doing the
business, why not we just listen or not?
Put the thing outside.
We don't know. Sometimes your incoming call will
come to you,
and the people who call you, it's your
family. Assalamualaikum.
Assalam,
and all these things not the right place.
Okay. It's like when you're praying
but you are praying, you cannot
have all these things, you know, on,
on, you pass put in silence because it
will disturb your prayer.
No. So stay away from that. I know
sometimes we are used to that. Time for
us to make some hijra. When you go
to the washroom,
don't bring your handphone.
Put it outside.
Yeah. That is the best adam.
Yeah? That is the best
I want to ask how best to explain
to a not yet Muslim
when they ask about,
going out of Islam,
is punishable by death, right? And then it's
considered, like,
promoting violence.
So how do
we best explain to them?
It's not difficult.
That's why for people who want to be
most normal to
us,
we will make it very clear for them.
What is Islam about?
When you're in, you're in for life. It's
a one way traffic.
If you're not ready, you don't have to
force yourself until you're ready
because this religion belong to Allah and Allah
set a law.
President,
SOP,
you cannot do that,
but we know this thing happened
and that's why Allah revealed the aya about
this, Umayyaratad,
I mean, I min kum andini, whoever
Iritat, Mortat.
But then,
a lot of them
is telling us,
you know, what is going to happen
but there are 2 way
2 group of people who are murtan.
1 who declare
out front challenge the authority,
then the law will come after him.
1 who just do it by himself,
now we leave it between he and Allah.
The law breaker normally
are too tight,
Even to the extent the prophet say, all
my Ummah who commits sin
will be forgiven by Allah
except those sinner
who are so proud and dare to commit
the sin openly,
and challenge the author, what can you do
to me?
This kind of sin
will not be forgiven.
The law will come after you.
The rest I can forgive, okay, I understand,
but
that's why you don't have this case people
go and arrest people who do things secretly,
no. Personal sin, people do it secretly.
The law
don't come after them.
Because they are shy,
they have shyness, they are ashamed to do
it open.
May Allah protect them. That's why when the
time of the prophet, people who commit sin
secretly,
they came to the prophet and say, oh
prophet, I've done this, please,
no?
Punish me according to the punishment of Allah.
The prophet called you and believed, go back.
Because you have done something wrong secretly and
not only you and Allah know nobody, why
must you come and tell us?
Either whether you have some problem here,
so the prophet don't want to entertain,
but if you do it openly, more than
challenge,
then the law can come after you.
Yeah. The law, either you repent,
pull back,
all yet you have to die.
This is a very severe
yeah, rule, there are certain things
so that you don't send another signal,
the wrong signal
to other people.
No.
Punishment of all these came from Allah, not
from us.
But if you want to repent, Allah accept
your repentance.
So that's how we move on. We don't
want people to challenge us.
Yeah.
It's it's not right at all.
Okay, last.
How many questions?
5 questions, just take 1.
Take 1 because today we're a bit rushing
with something on.
Is she a people
considered
out of the fall of Islam
or they are still believers of monotheism,
believe in Abrahamic
faith?
Again, the last last sentence.
Or they are still believers of monotheism
and believe in Abrahamic faith?
Believing in Abraham faith.
Abraham is
is monotheism,
Abraham
believed in Allah, worshipped Allah,
the children of Abraham,
Ishaq is a prophet,
Isma'il is a prophet,
but
to make it easier,
do you consider the Shia Muslim?
Whoever claims they are Muslim, we accept them
as Muslim.
Whoever says,
Muslim. But the shia have extra yes, some
of them, not all of them. Shia do
not exist in the time of
the Prophet, don't
Abu Bakr, don't exist in the time of
A. Omer.
It started
to become more exposed in the time of
Osman,
and this is not from
the Muslims, it is from
the Munafiqin.
Yeah, from Abdullah bin Sabah and all these
who
try to
create problems from inside. They just pretend to
be a Muslim, but they are not Muslim.
Yeah.
So
if some group of Shi'ang said,
Our prophet also did mention
Ali, gave him a title, Ali Wali Allah.
Ali Karamu Muhu Wacha, a title.
There's nothing wrong.
La Abu Bakr as Siddiq,
yeah,
Omar al Farooq,
Osman Zuruwajahay,
Osman Nura'in example, everybody has the title.
As long as they accept Laila Muhammad Rasa,
that is the minimum for us
to
value whether that person is a Muslim or
not. Now whether they practice other than that
not all Shia
is totally out.
Some good, it's like the Muslim today.
If some Muslim is declaring
Muhammad is Allah, Allah Muhammad Kalas, they are
out.
Allah is Allah. Muhammad is Muhammad.
You
see? If somebody will say, no, I only
believe in the 6, in the 5 particular
faith, they are out. Even they say, I'm
Muslim
because Islam is a package. The minimum package
5, 6, 1.
Anybody denied one of it, they are out,
But if they just act something,
then they make some innovation.
Maybe out of ignorance,
they do something wrong.
We can still accept they are Muslim.
And the best thing, ask them,
are you
Muslim?
You say yes.
If you have a doubt, can you make
Shahada?
So we cannot just,
yeah,
brand them
because there are so many groups. Our own
people who claim to be a Sunnat and
also do a lot of wrong
belief now. They got the wrong idea, maybe
they are influenced by a certain
part we don't know, they get confused,
you know.
Now they have another group saying, you know,
that,
they say
prophet Muhammad
always visit Surabaya.
Prophet Muhammad passed away, we know where he
went. He was Makkah Madinah, he went to
Tabuk
for
war. Suddenly he says, every time he he
came to visit Surabaya,
Surabaya is a very unique place, you know,
stuck for a lot.
And you have people who believe.
No. These people have gone crazy.
I don't know why they're going Ting in
that direction.
Who gave them the idea to say prophet
Muhammad visited? So until today they say,
on and off your camp,
You know? So make the people in Surabaya
feel very proud. Don't play with us, no?
Prophet will visit us, no? Every month.
You
see, so they are gone,
but if they claim they are mostly ashadwala,
only they have got this mixed
belief, wrong belief, may Allah guide them. But
we have no right to say you are
not a Muslim.
You cannot say that when they claim they
are Muslim. The minimum they accept,
we accept.
The innovation, the plus plus and this one
is their mistake.
They turn astray for a while. We have
to guide them back.
That's how we move on.
Yeah?
I have many questions online but we have
some other activities
after this.
Last one. Okay. Assalamualaikum, Misha.
Is it a sunnah to recite Al Mook
in the mosque in a big group after
solar asia?
It is a sunnah at certain time that
the problem is not together by yourself.
I know a lot of people is introducing
a lot of things
with good intention,
but you are disturbing others,
especially in a mosque as a place that
people want to pray, the latecomer want to
do their prayers, so you are disturbing the
peace of other people.
A mosque is a mosque.
The tranquility,
of the mosque is very important. But they
normally do it after sola is isha.
Yeah. Even but other people may come and
make pray but if you just want to
train the people, teach the people how to
recite
this surah, how to it's okay, but you
don't make it as a habit after
or you fix a day that and you
say they got special blessing, then that's where
you went wrong. No.
Anything that the prophet never taught us,
it was to do with the intention to
educate people, make it, it's okay,
but you fix it. Let us pray
and recite this.
This is a special blessing, fadilat, you must
have a dalil. When there's no dalil, you
cannot say
that this is special,
like the prophet do not know we know
better. That's very wrong. Anything to do with
ritual in Islam
is being taught by prophet Muhammad
and been practiced by the first generation.
If they does it then we can do.
If none, then we stay away. You want
to do by yourself? No problem.
Yeah. I know a lot of new thing
is coming in because people don't bother to
follow the way of the prophet. They just
follow their own way,
what their leader want them to do, so
now the religion is following the leader, not
leader following the religion today.
Yeah, we want to make this religion like
ours. We can make adjustment, we can change,
we can fix here,
so please
don't do things that the prophet never recommend
us to do. May Allah protect us inshallah.
Don't forget, brother and sister, the ongoing program
activities
that we have here every Saturday, Sunday,
Please, if you have any extra time, spend
your time wisely so that you can get
Allah's blessing because there are a lot of
activities that you can participate
and you can be with us together,
we move forward for the sake of Allah.
And our ongoing courses on prayer,
year, perfecting my soul at
peace be alert and share with your friend
who have never been with us so that
they will benefit
from all these causes, inshallah.
Assalamu alaikum, Warahmatullahi
wabarakatuh.