Hussain Yee – Don’t Be Sad #118
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The importance of mercy and love in Islam is crucial for every Muslim to have a healthy relationship, and it is crucial to be mindful of one's own actions and values. It is crucial to be mindful of one's actions and not just give back to oneself. It is crucial to be mindful of one's actions and not just focus on the one who is going to die. It is crucial for people to pray for loved ones and not to give up on their religion.
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Make their heart to become,
family with each other.
Wajaa Allah, Assess, Dawatil Islam
And Allah has created,
make that
the the base of our religion
is mercy
and love or rahma.
They are going to say in the Quran,
And He also made
the base or the the the seed
for the loving
or mercy of each other,
for in this ummah is the family.
Because as I said in the Quran,
He created between you and your family,
love and also mercy.
Okay. And also the mercy and the love
that is actually the best of Islam
is something that being being urged by
our predecessor,
the Salaf of this Ummah,
so that we actually
have to be to to live each other
and have mercy for each other because that
is the base of this religion.
Okay.
For the
the the narrator of the hadith, the people
that involved themselves in the hadith, they always
mention,
or they always start their their speech
with one of the the hadith that mentioning
the mercy
of each other for upon the people of
each other.
So the the the the the hadith is
really,
related
change from here, from us until the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. It's actually describing about
the mercy.
Actually, this hadith
is is, you will get the the
the the duration
like we actually learn it and you also
learn it the same,
that,
the province of Salam
is as, from the among the first the
first that being taught to to to to
to our people, to even the prophet as
salam. You can say that the first hadith
that I heard from this guy
is the prophet said,
will be will be
will be will be treated with mercy by
the most merciful, and
be merciful
to those who on the earth and the
one that in the sky, the the heaven,
will have mercy upon you.
The the the the mercy is actually from
the first thing in our religion,
that our religion is actually based on the
mercy.
Okay. The prophet
once
a child came into his gathering with a
companion,
then the prophet
hugged the child and kissed the child.
And one of the,
people around him, actually from from the the
the the elders,
he asked the prophet, are
you kissing your children? The
prophet said,
at
and the the hadith the prophet said.
Whoever doesn't have mercy,
that is one of the thing that you
have to do, have mercy even for a
small child.
And this mercy is something that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala put in hearts of His servant.
Few servants, but some are not being given,
but but Allah chose for some of his
servant to have the mercy inside their heart.
Because of that when the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam cried, you know, the tears fell
down when he was holding,
a child
about going into death.
So his companions asked him, what is these
tears? What is that tears? Oh, Messenger of
Allah, The prophet
said, this is the mercy that Allah put
in the heart of the people that He
want.
Then because of that, if you feel that
you have the mercy inside your heart to
anything, to anybody,
then you know that Allah is the one
that put the
mercy inside your heart, then you must praise
Allah because of it.
Praise Allah because you have the mercy.
Because of that,
the hardness inside your heart also, something that
Allah put inside your heart.
So if you find the the person of
of person have the hardness inside their heart,
means that our ta'ala is also not loving
or having mercy to that person. Because Allah
Almighty said in the Quran,
so their heart become hardened
like a stone, like a stone, like a
rock,
even though after what they are see after
that.
Because of
that, when you
become hard to anybody,
essentially Allah Ta'ala will will will will,
repay you with the hardness that you have.
If you have mercy to others, then our
time will repay you with whatever
the the the mercy that you have.
Because in Islam,
the the the reward
is from the type of what the deeds
being done.
If you have, you are doing good to
others, then Allah will do good to you.
If you have mercy to others, Allah will
we have mercy upon you. Because of that,
the prophet said, Inna maya rahullah, You rahamullah
minibadi rahama.
Allah only have mercy upon his servant who
have mercy mercy upon others.
He said
Okay.
The the chief said that he actually
traveled around,
the University of America
for 5 months,
and he went in, into,
15 states.
There's actually 1, a third of all the
states in America.
So he found out throughout his journey
that
those people there is really in need of
mercy.
They don't
really actually doesn't have that,
and the feeling that he have
about for them to become Muslim,
because if they become Muslim,
whatever the knowledge they have will become the
Muslims' knowledge. Whatever,
possession they have,
all the the the richness will become for
the Muslims,
and the Muslims will become
more abundant
with their numbers.
So because the mercy,
we we we have mercy upon upon,
we love for the Muslim, and the mercy
for those who are not yet Muslim,
He said that he actually hoped that Allah
Ta'ala will guide them.
And Hazar Islam said,
Okay.
He actually also said that,
he is really in confident,
really assured,
with whatever he is going to say. That
when he was actually now in Al Khadem
and now in
in in in, in this time,
that Islam will enter
every houses.
Not even not you can look at whether
the house is from the rock, the stone
or even
the tent,
the the the house from the tent,
Islam will go into that
that that that place.
Whether you like it or not, because all
the time has seen in the Quran,
that he actually,
while the Arshad Rasulahu wihudawalilhaq,
he is the one that send his messenger,
with the guidance
and also the truth.
So that he will topple
this religion upon other religion. Upon
other,
and Allah is like that, witnessing everything.
So Islam will go into every part of
this world.
Then because of that, we actually whenever we
go into this world, wherever we go, we
must understand that we are the the way
for this region to come to others.
This region will come to others through us.
So we have to work
and do our part
in conveying the message of the religion to
others.
Because of that, you know that,
we
actually,
have to to give this religion to others.
So through,
we don't have any animacy to
to anybody.
We love the Muslim to stay on their
religion,
and the non Muslim to become Muslim
because of our love and mercy to others.
So so because of that, that is the
the the thing that making us to convey
this message,
to make sure that all people actually going
to to to to paradise
and actually be be saved by
Allah.
Okay. I will close my my speech
because,
the time is not the time is so
limited.
We,
I open up,
with with with with one thing is mercy
and love, and I'm ending up the, our
speech today also with love, insha'Allah.
And I'm giving you the hadith that being
narrated. We narrated from the from from us
to the prophet,
continue with continuity.
And we will say the same that you
all get this hadith,
from me.
That the prophet of salaam said to
Mu'ad bin Jabal, he said,
you Mu'ad in Hebrewka,
I love you. So he said that I
also love all of you.
Father,
don't you don't you forget to say after
each prayer,
Allahumma'inni
Allahdikrikah.
Oh Allah, help me to remember you.
To be grateful to you.
And also to be good,
good act in act of worship towards you.
So don't forget to say that insha'Allah,
accept
from
us
all.
This is like he said, like our the
the
the the casing
from 2 parts.
One part is actually,
mercy, the other part
is love.
So we, the religion of Islam, is in
the middle.
From the beginning, mercy,
Ending, is love.
Muhammad
All praises due to Allah Subha'l Alamin for
His mercy, His guidance,
and the knowledge that our early
scholars have shared with all our brothers and
sisters today.
To all of you, this is one of
the students
of al Bani,
a great scholar of Hadith.
He just paid us a visit the first
time to visit al Kadhim so we grabbed
the opportunity for him to give us some
advice.
I believe that all of us have benefited
from his
reminder.
Even for all of us maybe this is
the first time to
listen to a talk in Arabic
but then it was translated
in
English.
What is important the gist of the reminder
is about
the importance for every Muslim
to have these two
feelings,
2 characters.
1st
is love and second
mercy.
Like what Allah has said to all of
us,
With the sign of Allah,
with His wisdom and His power,
he made all of us
pairs,
male and female,
so that we will find peace and tranquility,
sakinah,
meaning you are not a perfect person until
you choose a good partner
and you decide
to have a relationship that is
legal
to be husband and wife.
The reason Allah wants us
to have a family, number 1, sakinah,
to find peace.
Number 2,
to develop love.
It's not easy
to be together as husband and wife if
there is no love,
But there is a saying very popular among
us, love is blind,
And it is so true that I have
my
humble experience
that I have a student before,
both are blind.
And then they got 2 children,
1 boy, 1 girl, who is not blind.
Alhamdulillah.
Then after more than 15 years,
one day the wife came
to see us.
The wife said, I do not know what
happened to my husband.
What did he
see in the other
lady
that I don't have
because he's a blind husband.
Because
he got
a second wife.
And the strange thing, the second wife also
is blind.
You see.
So sometimes
what
people used to say love is blind
has some truth in it, you know.
So it's not just how you
how you are, how you're created. It is
the feeling,
how you talk to one another,
you know.
The senses in a person is very important.
Now love and mercy,
the greatest one is mercy.
That's why
rahmah
comes later on.
It's just like we as family,
after some time
our love starts to fade.
In the beginning,
our love is so strong.
As our family grows,
so our feeling
of the feeling of love is shared with
others.
Who are the others? Children. Now children
want your attention, want your love.
And that is why the shepherd was telling
us
about when any children come and play around
in front of the prophet, the prophet will
always
grab them, kiss them, touch their head.
But this kind of feeling
is not common among the Arabs. The Arabs
are very hardcore people,
And when Allah tested our Prophet, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam,
with his last son Ibrahim,
He had a last son who was still
alive,
before he passed away,
and this last son of him passed away
one day.
It made the mushrike
in Mecca, the enemy of the prophet was
very happy
by saying
our God Al Aqdawal Uzza have cursed and
punished this man.
Muhammad and his descendants,
he have no more descendants
because
the family name will always be carrier,
yeah, on when you have a baby
boy.
Then the family name will pass through.
So when you don't have a boy that
means
your name will not be known
anymore in the future.
It's being.
But Allah Almighty
makes something happen when Ibrahim passed away,
the prophet shed tears.
Then companion
was shocked, he said,
why the prophet should take it is common.
Living, dying is common.
So the prophet
is sharing with his followers,
companions,
this is the mercy Allah put into the
heart of
everyone.
If you don't feel
for others,
others will not feel for you.
Now I believe that all of us have
this mercy.
Yeah,
and mercy is the one who helps us
to forgive
and move forward. You may not forget.
It's not easy to forget, but you are
able to forgive and move forward.
Many verses in the Quran
talk about mercy.
When a person says I have mercy,
then you will see that he is not
a very hard person,
Yeah. He's always there
to forgive and move on,
but when a person have no mercy,
then you know.
What the prophet said, whoever don't show mercy
to the creation of Allah
even to the animals,
what about human? Of course human are more
valuable than animal,
than the one in the sky, the heaven
will not show mercy
to you.
So when you have mercy for one another,
Allah Almighty the Creator will show His extra
mercy
to all of us.
And even Allah said to the prophet,
If Allah will not put the mercy into
your heart, O Muhammad,
then you cannot
help other people to understand
Islam.
If you had to the mushrikeen,
to this believer,
they will run away from you.
You must have the mercy,
the patience,
yeah to convey the message
of love,
the message of Islam
to the people.
And not everybody will respond to your call,
but you must have the mercy,
patience,
and keep on praying for them.
That's why as parents, we all do have
some extra mercy to our children
even our children is not being grateful,
yeah, unfaithful,
very
disobedient,
but parents'
heart always
remember and pray for them
especially
the mother
because the mother have one thing that the
father don't have.
Even the father want to have, the father
cannot have.
There is the raheem.
The Rahim is a gift to the woman.
Yeah.
That's why the woman have extra
love and extra patience,
yeah.
So bin woman is a gift from Allah.
Man is a man.
Man must be strong
but at the same time the man should
learn how to have mercy.
Don't just look at the weak point of
somebody,
the wife, the children and you attack them.
Don't do that.
Nobody is perfect.
We have to work together
to have a good ending.
Now that is the gist of what has
been shared to us of the power of
having mercy
like what happened in the time of Umar
the second caliph of our Prophet.
When Islam spread to Rome and Persia, there
are a lot of
people who are new to Islam.
So then some companions
who have been
with the family for more than 30 over
years
as husband and wife,
suddenly
the feeling of love
is no more there.
So he came to Omar and said, Yeah,
Omar, Yeah Amir Menon.
Can you help me
to end my relationship with my wife?
I don't want to make her life difficult.
I don't want to make my life difficult
since
neither she have any feeling, neither I have
any feeling
but we're just tolerate to live as husband
and wife.
So then Omar
looked at this man
and said so
no more love.
Yeah.
But please remember there's another
more important than love that is rahma
mercy.
You have been together
good time, bad time. You have spent everything
together.
Even the love is not strong anymore,
you should develop
the mercy
and move on.
It's not easy for them
to stay so long for say 20, 30
years going through all the hardship together
and to bring up the children together.
But then
please focus on
the mercy.
Al hamdulillah,
this man accept the advice of Omar Khattab
and
move on.
Sometimes
we know Bina,
human,
after sometime
we get also very tired.
Yeah. And
word I love for, I love you,
they'll come out anymore.
Maybe you say I like you. I don't
use love anymore.
Before I love you. I love you. I
love you. Yeah.
Before you use this sign.
After that no sign.
That is common,
but if you have extra mercy,
there will be some extra blessing
because life is not just our
pure love.
Life
is about
how to work together
and have a good ending.
If you look into the topic
that we should be continuing today
on page 190,
you will not die before your appointed
time.
Yeah.
That means so not later, brothers and sisters,
every one of us,
whether you love somebody
so dear to you
or you don't love anybody
and you love yourself more than anyone
and sometimes you don't even love yourself more,
you love your money more.
That's why you are prepared to go through
all the hardship,
to work so hard you don't even take
care of your health but because you want
to work.
Yeah a lot of people love things
more than human today.
Yeah.
We thought that
money is everything.
Yeah. You had.
We love to accumulate wealth.
Money, money, money
Allah gives you
but you don't even care about yourself anymore.
You work
day and night. You have no time for
yourself,
no time for your children,
no time for your family.
If that is what you want,
Allah will give it to you.
Yeah, but then
the mercy
is
disappearing,
is fading. We hope that
we must work
very hard
yeah to have this
the power of mercy.
Yeah.
Brothers and sisters,
the book that we are
sharing,
that we are
talking about don't be sad.
In the ayah, Allah said,
Every one of us
have our own
time
for us to return back to Allah.
When the time come, not even a second
be ahead or a second delay
on time.
This is something that nobody can escape
except prophets and messenger.
When the time come to return back to
Allah, the angel of death was not given
the authority to pull their soul without their
permission.
This is only especially for the prophets.
For us, no permission need.
If you ask us, Are you ready? We
are always not ready,
you know. If you can bribe him, you
will bribe him. What What do you want
from me? You want money? I give you
all my money.
Spare me another day,
you know.
And that's why
Allah said in the Quran in Surah Munafiqeen
after Surah Jumah.
Give what Allah have given you,
whatever wealth you have that Allah has given
you. Don't keep on
keeping
it to yourself.
You must be ready to give back for
Allah
before the time will come,
you ask Allah, oh Allah, can you spare
me some time now?
Give me some extra hour, extra day. For
what?
What Why do you ask Allah for extra
time?
Because you know you are going to die
now.
So you know whatever you have cannot help
you, you cannot bring it with you.
Even your handphone you love so much, do
you think anybody will bury you and your
handphone together
and keep on sending message to you? How
how are you in there?
How do you feel, you know, how is
your darkness?
No. Do you feel any aircon
in 6 feet below?
Even you have a special
extra battery you know to back up, do
you think you can get any cold?
Nobody will bury
your hand for me because the one who
is leaving he's going to make use of
it,
not you anymore.
So because the fear and that is there,
we always feel sad because the fear
is coming in
strongly.
You know.
When the angel pulls your soul,
everything cut off.
Nothing you can do anymore in this life.
Whoever you love the most, they can help
you.
Your time's up.
You know why we ask Allah to delay
our departure?
Because we know
Allah is going to ask us about what
He have given us.
Latus alunna yawma isin anin nayim. Remember the
day will come, Allah is going to ask
you about what he have given you. The
more he give you, the more he will
ask you.
For those who don't have a lot of
luggage or baggage,
even the customer look at you can jalan
jalan,
right? The green lane.
For those who
and come up with 10 bags
and then they ask here,
do you have anything to declare? Nothing sir,
nothing. It's about 10 bags you know.
It's okay. There's a machine there you just
go to the machine.
Just an example. The more you have,
the more Allah is going to ask you.
So why do we ask Allah to delay
our departure?
Why? Because we say to Allah,
You give me some extra time
so that I am going to give everything
I have for you now, oh Allah.
I know I'm going to go back to
you and nothing of this is going to
follow me, and now I'm going to give
it to you.
You see, O Allah,
delay my departure
so that I can give sadaqah.
Because if you don't give, who is going
to benefit from it?
Give you a very simple example.
Your children all are hamdu liq and
having good life because
Allah bless you,
bless the family and they have their own
profession,
they have their own house, everything, alhamdulillah.
Now let's you
and your loved one, your husband.
Your husband loves you a lot, alhamdulillah.
You love him a lot, alhamdulillah.
But you have a feeling
that if I die now,
my husband is still young, active,
handsome looking guy,
I'm sure there is
another person
will come into his life.
How would you feel if your husband say
whatever diamond I give it to you, you
know,
after your death
I will put into the finger of another
lady. How do you feel?
He informed you.
Do you think you are going to let
that happen?
Do you think you will agree, it's okay
Lord, what can I do?
If I die, there's no point for me
yet to wear the diamond ring. They say
diamond is forever. Yes, diamond forever. Well we
are not forever.
When we are sick,
when we have been hospitalized,
most of the jewelry is being
taken away from our body. We're worried what
the nurse is cleaning you, he clean everything
and then suddenly say where is my ring?
No one
admit.
It's the risky.
So a wise person when you are in
that situation,
we keep everything
but you know that after that He is
going to give it to another person.
So we have some saying
if this thing happened,
that person will be haunted.
I my soul will not rest in peace.
I will come back and look for them.
That's why our Chinese people,
if
somebody passed away,
whatever belonging they have, they are very careful.
If you share with the wrong people,
then they believe the spirit will come back.
And look, oh you wear my salwar. Yeah.
Oh
you wear this, you wear that.
Then keep on haunting you. You have no
peace
but that is not what we believe.
What I'd like to share is brother and
sister,
we all
have a lot of problems
is because
we fear
other than Allah
more.
That is the beginning of our problem.
That's why Allah in Surat Al Bukhara remind
us, walanapluwan
nakumbisheyeinminal
cove.
The first thing I would test all of
you is you fear
other than Allah
more than Allah.
You fear that you will lose this. You
fear that this thing will happen. That thing
will happen. The fear is controlling your feeling.
Now you feel sad.
So if you want to free yourself from
sadness, the first thing you must overcome, brother
and sister,
overcome the fear towards other than Allah.
Fear Allah first.
Always learn how to fear Allah first.
Then you free yourself from a lot of
problems.
Who control the hearts of the people? That's
right. The iron that was shared by the
sheikh.
If you want to unite the heart of
everybody,
the heart of
husband and wife, children,
your friend.
With all the wealth you have,
the love you have
and the power that you have, do you
think you can unite the heart of the
people?
This is what the government is always doing.
They use money to buy
the people over.
Do you think they can do that? They
can.
But you cannot unite the heart of the
human
without the power of Allah.
Allah is the only one who have the
power to unite.
I am the one who unite the heart
of every one of you.
Young, old, poor,
rich. Yeah. White, black. Because of Allah's will,
we can be together, we pray together, we
eat together, we fast together,
we can have family together because of the
power of our, not because of money.
Don't think that money can buy
people's heart. No.
Sometimes you have experience.
You have a guy, very rich. What do
you want? You want Ferrari? I give you
Ferrari.
How do you feel now?
Do you think they can buy your love?
No.
Love is something that Allah put into the
heart.
Only with the power of Allah, I unite
the heart of everybody
not because of money.
Money
will not last long.
You have money, he's close to you. No
money,
bye bye. I have no time now
because
all these are not
from the heart,
not pure,
not sincere.
So please rule number 1,
overcome
the fear towards this death
and put the fear towards Allah first.
I
am worried if I do something
displeasing Allah. You must have that.
Anything that I want to do, I want
to check.
Is this something Allah want me to do?
Yes, I will do it.
That's why the prophet said, Radi tubillahi rubba.
Say to Allah, O Allah, I'm pleased with
you. Whatever
Please him first. He is the creator.
He's the one who control the heart of
everybody
and if he is happy
with
us, He will put the Rahma in the
heart
of our loved ones,
and our loved ones will love us,
like how he shared with us the hadith
from Moaz.
Moaz is one of the companions of the
prophet who he appointed him to
go
to
Ta'if,
yeah, to spread the word of Islam,
not to keep Islam to yourself.
You must be ready
to share the word of Islam
to other people. Do Dawah.
So he said to Muhammad, You Muhammad, I
love you so much.
When you love somebody, brother and sisters, there's
nothing wrong to express your feelings.
Don't just keep it to your heart.
Until you are going to die. I love
you darling,
I love you baby,
it's too late.
Say
I love you my son, I love you
my daughter.
Children also say to your daddy, I love
you dad. How many children said to their
dad I love you now?
How many people said to their mom I
love you mommy?
Can you remember?
You can check from today
and we see how many times note it
down.
It's important the expression here. The prophet expressed
this to his companion,
I love you for the sake of all.
And when a person loves somebody,
he will not just
say the word I love you and nothing
else.
And that's the Du'an is there over here.
It's written
it's written over there. The prophecy,
I will teach you something.
Because he loved
his companions,
so He do not love them by saying
I love you and call us.
Yeah, He left behind a very important
reminder.
He said, Moab,
don't forget to recite this prayer
every time after your daily prayer.
Have you memorized this du'a?
It's a very powerful du'a.
Simple and very basic.
Asking Allah, Allahumma'aini.
Oh Allah, help
me. Be humble.
When you ask Allah for something, brother and
sisters,
you must learn how to be humble. You
don't even you give you give me laqam,
you don't okay, I understand.
You don't do that to Allah.
You really hope that Allah will help you.
Be committed with your dua.
A lot of people have been making du'a
but they are not committed with their du'a.
They are not serious. They just
say it because they have to say
it.
Du'a must come from your heart,
not just lip service. No.
Allahumma a inni alizikr.
Oh, Allah help me.
A'ini min oh Allah
help me. Help you to do what?
Help us to do what brother and sister?
Help me to remember you the way you
want me to remember you.
Now this is very important.
You may remember Allah in your own way.
No. You should remember Allah in the way
He want you to remember Him. A lot
of Muslims sometimes, they remember Allah but they
only pray once in a week, Friday.
Anybody who remember Allah, Allah said, Akeemu salalizikri.
Establish your prayer, your daily prayer,
so that you stay connected with me.
And remember what Allah want you to do
and you do it.
Allowing to give, keep on giving. There's nothing
for you to lose for Allah's sake.
Don't think that
if you give more, I'm getting poorer. No.
No. No.
Is your investment for your alkera?
How many of us are ready to give
for the sake of our Lord?
Because of our love,
We fear
poverty will come to us. No.
Fear. Fear of this fear that you don't
fear, Allah.
The companion,
the first, second generation of the Muslim, they
don't have that fear.
Anything they get from Allah, they're ready to
give it for the sake of Allah. That's
why Islam spread so fast because you have
the best Muslim.
So now it's very important for us to
overcome our fear first,
then you will not
be sad.
But all these will come handy
when you strengthen your iman.
Your iman now love what Allah love, hate
what Allah hate, you are ready to give
for the sake of Allah, you withhold for
the sake of Allah, then the prophet said,
Faqaddis taqmalal iman. You have a sound strong
iman.
Then what should you do after you have
a good iman? Now you're learning about strengthening
your iman. You have the knowledge now. What
will you do after that with the knowledge
that you have?
1st, you must be sure that you stay
is the comma.
A legend I call her rubuna.
Whoever said, rubun Allah Summa's the kama and
they stay consistent
with this feeling.
See what Allah said?
If you have strengthened your iman
and stay consistent,
is the karma.
The first thing Allah will help you to
overcome your fear.
You fear nothing in this life and you
don't fear about your akhirah because you know
Allah have promised
you anything you do for the sake of
Allah, anything that you give for the sake
of Allah, he will reward you
10 times more to 700.
And what is there for you to fear?
Are you fear to invest in something where
there's a guarantee from the authority
your profit is 10 time
in 1 month
to 700 times.
How do you feel about that investment?
Do you think you will invest
If it's been promised,
secured
by the authority whoever invests now in 1
month time, your investment
will bring benefit 10 times more to 700
times. How do you feel brother and sister?
Do you want to invest
or you want to keep all your money?
No, no, no, no. I'm not going to,
but this is
confirmed by the authority.
It's not just online, the authority,
you know, come and give you this the
security. How do you feel? Do you feel
secure?
Do you want to invest?
What do you think?
You got 10 times more in return.
1 month is very fast,
you know. Suddenly finish 1 month.
But you don't invest,
then you miss the opportunity.
So Allah said, I am going to help
you.
You fear nothing
because
you have given up. You have believed in
Allah. Zigrika, you remember what I say.
Remember what Allah say. Remember the day will
come brother and sister.
Whatever property you have, how many children you
have will not bring you peace. Cannot help
you. Cannot protect you.
I have a friend who have more than
30 grandchildren.
Why?
How can he get so many grandchildren
because he have many wives
to the extent that I don't even remember
how many wives he had.
Meaning after one after one maybe
they end the religion, another one,
they end again another one.
And we only recognize
4 who have came here before.
The rest we don't know.
So because he's a very protect productive man,
no. He got so many grandchildren.
He can't even remember their names.
Even you have all your children, they cannot
help you anymore when the time come for
you to depart from this world.
All your wealth cannot protect you.
Except those who have prepared their heart, who
have stopped beat to Allah and say, Oh
Allah, I am ready to come back to
you. That will help you.
That is what we are working towards.
Yeah, every day we are thinking what is
the best thing for us to prepare ourselves
before we return back to Allah
because one you return is a one way
ticket.
You cannot come back again. You're moving forward
already.
This is what Allah said.
Outcome that fear.
Stay strong in your iman.
Then
when you overcome the fear, you fear nobody
more than Allah, then what did Allah say?
Walata zano.
Don't be sad.
Today we are sad because of what?
Because of so many attachment.
This, death, so many things that we are
thinking of that's where we are set
when we do get what we want.
But again
yeah
when Mu'as was taught by the prophet, he
said, allahu ma'ini ala zikriqa,
remember
Allah.
Washukriqah,
be grateful, be thankful to Allah. Whatever you
have now, the little you have, you are
grateful and thankful,
more blessing
will come.
That's why you look at the people before
us. They don't have a lot of things
like we have.
Look at the house of our beloved prophet
Muhammad. If he want to be rich, the
people is going to offer him everything he
wants.
If he want money the people are going
to accumulate gold and pass it to him,
make him the richest among them.
If you want the authority, the people you
can appoint him to be the leader but
don't
stop us from doing what we are doing.
Leave us alone.
What we believe, let us carry on.
Don't call us to Islam. The prophet will
not stop.
He's not here for wealth. He's not here
to enrich himself. He's not here for power
crazy. He is here to share the call
of his love.
That's why Allah said, waman aksanaqawlamin
manda'a in law. Whose speech, whose word is
better beloved by Allah than people who use
his tongue to call other people to Islam,
and the caller must take good example, wa
amila amala. Sorry, and wherever you go, be
proud of who you are. I am a
Muslim.
Now what the shares say, he was traveling
in the US
and he looked at a lot of people.
Sometimes they don't care about each other, everything
of themselves
but with what is happening
in the Middle East in Gaza,
open the eyes of the people, they feel
something is very wrong.
Our value is wrong. We have no feeling
to these earnest innocent people,
children being killed,
women,
elderly men
have to suffer because of this crazy
group of people who think of power.
It's like this world belong to all of
you, don't belong to others.
It belong to everyone.
Learn how to live together in peace.
The earth, planet earth is so vast.
There's so many if you take a flight,
so many empty areas
unexplored.
Why we are so greedy?
You think you have the power to bully
everybody? No.
That's why the karma will happen.
You kill,
you put fear in 1 group,
there will be another
wave to come in again.
You will never have peace.
You want peace,
you learn how to
honor the peace of other people.
You want justice,
you must make sure you are just to
other people.
You want love,
love others.
You want mercy? Show mercy to others. That's
how you move on.
At the end of the day it's a
win win situation.
Shukrieka, be grateful, be thankful
we are living
in peace is a great nikma.
We are healthy today is a great nikma.
We have good friend among us is a
great blessing.
Be thankful
for those who have parents, alhamdulillah.
You still have parent.
We have some money, a lot of people
don't have parent anymore.
For those who still have parent, be grateful,
be thankful.
Serve them. Make them happy before anything happen,
so they have a good ending.
So that in your future you have a
good ending.
It's very important.
Shukriqah,
be grateful, be thankful.
2 things that the prophet even has warned
us, he said, we
always
keep on,
become ungrateful
and forgetful
with 2 blessings.
Mi'atma,
farah
or saha.
When you have time to do something for
Allah, you don't spend your time wisely.
You waste your time
doing things that do not benefit
you at all.
What is the time been wasted today to
among of the new generation they have time
to go online
with this finger. You remember Allah said in
the Quran, your finger
will bear witness
to you in the day of judgment. Allah
will ask your finger what do you do
with this finger?
Wow, my finger move very fast,
you know. My finger keep on pressing
1 apps to another apps.
Yeah. Okay.
So
your finger is to use
to do something just
for yourself and you forget other thing.
I was in Penang last few days when
I was having my breakfast.
Then you have this family came and sit
just in front of the place where I
was sitting. So it happened the son is
there, the father is going to take their
breakfast, the mother was sitting beside the son.
What the son does is he just opened
the iPad
and he don't bother to talk to anybody,
he don't bother about his breakfast.
I was looking or staring
at the boy.
The mothers knew that I was staring at
him.
I don't know whether they knew me or
not but later on towards the end they
came to me and gave salaam. Assalamu alaikum
will start then I know they know me.
But I was a bit shocked because after
some time when the husband came back taking
the breakfast,
the son don't even want to eat.
The son just enjoyed with the iPad.
Then the mother and the son,
they start to change seat
not to face me anymore.
So the husband came and sit over there.
So I said maybe I've done something that
made them very uncomfortable.
So I just kept on praying here. I'm
learning, I'm trying to look at the children
today.
They are so small. How old? 4 years
old.
What is happening to us? Because we are
the one who gives them all together.
You should know how to discipline your children
when come to eating time. Don't give them
this.
No.
You thought that that's how you can make
them have peace.
Discipline them when they are young, when you
are able.
Then when after they have finished and they
came to me, give salaam, can we take
a selfie? Okay, I said, alhamdulillah.
Then I start to talk to him to
them again, you know. I was looking at
our son, very interesting, you know, looking at
the character of the children today you know.
They just don't bother
you know
just stick addicted to all these things when
they are so young. Can you imagine who
spoiled them?
Yeah, we we
so called.
We have all the
the money to buy all the animals. We
say, no, time,
food, let us go and look for your
food.
Train them to discipline them.
And then the next morning I was eating
again but sitting in there and I saw
another family.
The same thing.
I just want to
get some lesson.
What is happening to all these children?
But sometimes
it triggers,
yeah,
my mind, my feeling
do not yet Muslims also have children
but they do not allow their children to
do this nonsense.
They discipline their children and their children follow.
Can you imagine all the good thing is
being
followed by
the not yet Muslim
where this is our value. We abandon all
the good values,
so people pick up so they will be
better than us.
They don't waste time.
Time to eat, eat.
Time to play, you play.
Time to learn, you learn.
That is what Shukriqah,
be grateful for the time the Lord have
given you. When you're young, make use of
your young age
to seek knowledge, to do something that benefits
you. Serve your parents, make them happy.
Seek knowledge,
be ready to do something good, not just
thinking of yourself and with your
iPad.
Shook Creek,
the second thing that people always
ungrateful at is when you are healthy. Today
you were healthy, brother and sister. That's why
you can come.
There will come a time even you want
to come you can't
because you are not well, nobody to drive
you.
So when there is an opportunity for you
to do something good for yourself, to seek
knowledge,
don't
ignore that.
Utilize
it.
Shook crick,
be grateful.
You only can be more active when you're
healthy,
but you are active in doing so many
things that is not beneficial to you.
Lastly, what do we say?
May we let somebody
remind them with the reminder of our prophet,
Allahumai'ini
ala zikika wasshukrika
wahosni
ibadatik.
The last one, oh Allah help me.
Help you to do what?
Help me to remember to worship you Allah
in the best manner that I can.
I do not want to pray for the
sake of praying but my mind is not
there. My body is standing facing Qibla but
my mind my feeling is not connected. No
point.
It's like a hypocrite.
You're standing there like you're worshiping Allah but
your mind and your heart is not there.
You want to worship Allah?
Anything you do with the name of Allah,
eating, drinking is an act of worship. Working
is an act of worship. Visiting the poor,
visiting the people who are sick is an
act of worship but you must know the
other.
What do you do when you visit the
people who are not well?
Pray for them.
Can you visit the non believers?
Can you visit your friend who are non
believers,
who are not yet Muslim? Yes.
Show mercy to them. Show that you care
for them.
But the best thing when you see them,
remind them.
My fellow brothers, my fellow sisters,
if you remember,
you don't lose anything
especially those who are bedridden
and you know
their life
is going to end soon.
They are so sick,
then remind them
my friend
you know, you know I'm your good friend
for so long
and I do care about you.
Can you just say
La ilaha illallah?
Can you imagine brother and sister, if they
respond
by you telling them,
bear witness, there is none worthy of worship
except 1 true God, Allah.
Suddenly after an hour he or she passed
away.
What will happen to him or her?
Allahu Akbar,
you have saved a soul
from
having
a bad ending
to have a good ending because the prophet
said whoever can end his life or her
life by saying, la
ilaha illa Allah and they believe in it,
then paradise is theirs.
Don't you want to save your friend, your
loved one,
or we just don't care?
Oh, I don't think they want to follow.
You don't know.
I give you one tip.
Whisper to them,
you know, if you say,
Muhammad Rasoolallah first and then
always.
When you die,
billions of Muslims pray for your soul every
single day
free of charge. You don't
have to worry about your
soul because
billions of Muslim around the world who worship
our 5 times a day will pray for
your soul
without a penny span.
It's an extra blessing. You don't get this
kind of thing from other religion
because we are the only believer who pray
5 times a day
and each time when you pray you make
dua. May Allah forgive the Muslim who are
still alive and those who have passed away.
It's a package in your prayer
and every Jumad the Imam also will end
in the second Khutba O
Allah,
O
Allah,
Forgive the sin of the Muslim male and
female, the believer male and female, and those
who are still alive and those who have
passed away.
Can you imagine brothers and sisters that you
get free prayer
every day?
Is that a blessing?
They don't know. They don't know the value
of La ilaha illa Muhammad. We know but
we fail to convey this message
to
them. That shows that we don't care about
them.
Since they are your good friends,
you must
show them you love them for the sake
of Allah.
Wahoosni Ibadatiq is that, O Allah, help us
to perform the best act of worship to
You.
Worshipping Allah is not just prayer,
visiting the poor, visiting the sick, you know.
A smile is an act of worship.
Keep on reminding one another for something that
is good. That benefit is an act of
worship. Ezekiel is an act of worship.
When you work you have an assignment to
fulfill.
Commit yourself. Prove to them that you are
a hardworking person.
Yeah. It's an act of worship.
Have discipline.
When you do business, you don't lie, you
don't cheat. It's an act of worship
because Allah wanted
to do business
only you must not lie or cheat while
doing business. You don't do that. It's an
act of worship. Every single thing that you
do in this life guided by the Islamic
principle is an act of worship brother and
sister.
When you are driving,
you remember Allah
before you start the drive.
Do you know that where you're driving is
an act of worship?
When you want to enter the washroom,
you enter your left feet and say, Allahumma'imiyaaws
become Yaqfsi Waqaba' is an act of worship.
Everything you do, you remember Allah
is an act of worship.
So may Allah help all of his brothers
and sisters
and
may all of us have a good ending.
Remember these words that Allah is talking about
when the time comes,
no one will be delayed
on time.
You just have to get yourself ready
before it's too late.
So whatever you have, you must have the
intention.
That's why Al Akkadim always come up with
a lot of activities to make sure that
whatever we learn
there is a platform for us to
play our role,
to spread the word of Allah.
Yeah. I think you all have seen the
billboard
is on now.
Some people have been calling me, Hey, we
saw you. You are so big.
Yeah. I just, Yeah. Anything Islam
you must
make it big. Why not?
Or Islam
Islam is always
the top.
Why you are ashamed of saying put one
small small word here then, no, no, no.
If you can do it
and we can do better when we all
get
together, we contribute together, then the thing will
grow.
And whoever respond to the
billboard and come to us, all of you
who participate in this kind of activity will
get the reward from Allah. It is
collective
reward,
effort
you know. And remember what Allah said and
the stopper
of death will come in truth. Sacralat al
Mount.
Why they call Sacralat al Mount when it's
time for you to depart?
Situation have changed.
Yeah. You can't see.
Yeah.
We cannot see that the angel of death
has appeared in front our loved ones, but
our loved ones who is going to end
his life,
he can see the angel of death.
That's why the fear is there. Why he
don't feel worried? Because he's worried that he
will have a bad ending. When you have
the bad ending, there is the end.
And what we want is a good ending.
Remember brother and sister why when we shed
shadrach, I keep on moving this finger,
I keep on using this index finger
for what?
A sign to help us
to remember Allah.
Raise up your finger when you hit the
azan, raise
up your finger because there will come a
day when you are so sick
and you are in the ICU with all
the tube here, tube here. You cannot say
it out anymore. People cannot hear your recitation,
but anybody who is there to visit you,
if he love you, he will remind you.
Lakinumma'otakkum.
Bilayinullah, the prophet said, teach the one who
is going to die
this one word.
And if he managed to recite or respond,
that is a sign that he have a
good ending.
So when the people
because of semi coma and so on suddenly
you help them.
My fellow brother, my auntie, my uncle,
say,
lah, follow
me.
If you can hold your finger,
no, you cannot
they cannot respond to their lips, their tongue.
Hold their finger.
Move your
finger. When I say,
you know, move your finger.
If they move
there is a sign they are responding.
Simple as that.
That's why we got to train ourselves. Each
time when you have selfie
and group photos,
They say, Freestyle. What style?
When you say freestyle, what style do you
have?
Always be proud of our style, our identity.
No more Korean,
no more
the big or small.
Today you see you're so sad.
In the billboard sometimes you have a lot
of Muslims bearing hijabi
and this one they go, where is lah,
Eli? No. Are you not proud with
our identity?
That's why we keep on
So remember this, brothers and sisters,
anytime wherever you go, any star,
this is our star.
Okay.
Yeah. The young one must remember too
and may Allah bless us, guide us, inshallah.
If there's any question now we're open for
q and a. Fata
Fataar. Any question?
Any question from the and the mic is
ready.
Standby.
Ussas,
just a clarification.
Is Islam the only religion where as part
of our prayer or our supplication,
that we ask for forgiveness
for
ourselves,
for our family, for our friends,
Muslims
who are alive and who have passed away.
Above?
No. No. Is Islam the only religion
when we we ask for dua, we dua
for for ourselves, for our family,
for our friends, Muslims Who are still living.
Yeah. And and will pass away. Yeah.
Yeah. Islam always
encourage us when you make prayer,
don't be selfish.
Just just you, you, you. No no no.
If you go to paradise alone, very lonely,
you know. Paradise is huge. It's like you
go to the the 5 star hotel,
but you went there alone and have dinner.
How do you feel when other people have
friends,
5, 6 people, they can talk, they enjoy,
but you there
only alone.
Do you enjoy eating alone always?
I don't know. I don't enjoy.
No.
Those are togetherness.
Yeah. When you pray,
pray for everybody.
Good for you
and good for others.
Now Sir, the reason why I asked this
question is that actually it's a very good
selling point for wanting to for being a
Muslim.
You know, when you talk to people,
you know, who are not Muslim, they do
not realize that, you know, Islam is the
only religion when you you do supplication, you
do supplication
not just for yourself but for other people
also. You ask dua for other people. Yes.
Even to the not yet Muslim, you must
make dua for them.
You don't have to judge them and curse
them, yeah.
You just have
to make do at least. Can you,
brother and sister, have that feeling of rahma,
care for them.
You fail to introduce Islam to them,
but can you just raise up your hand,
oh Amor,
open their heart
to the effort of anybody
and make them
believe in You
and make them learn about Islam. Can you
make that dua?
You know normally I will say to my
friend who are not yet Muslim. That's why
I call them not yet Muslim.
So sometimes they ask me why you call
me not yet Muslim when other people say
you are not Muslim? I say, yeah, baby,
I'm praying that one day you become Muslim.
He said, don't pray for me. Don't pray.
I'm happy, you know. I said, don't worry.
My prayer is free. No. No. Even free
he don't He is not. He he don't
want that prayer. I said, you don't worry.
Even you don't I'll still pray keep on
praying for you. You don't know one day
something trigger
and he start to think positively.
That's what the prophet have done,
you know. Allah said to the prophet,
your duty, oh prophet,
convey the message. I give guidance, then don't
forget to pray for them.
That's why the prophet in the daytime active
in propagating Islam at night keep on asking
Allah give them guidance, oh, how many of
us done that?
Can you imagine how selfish we are?
We don't even pray for our neighbor, our
friend who are not yet Muslim but they
are good people.
Why we do that?
Because there's no more Rahma.
We don't care. But if the rahma is
there, mercy is there, like what Allah said
to Prophet Muhammad, wama arsalam nata irarrahmatillialaala
mean we never send you except to bring
mercy to the world.
That's what you see in the short one,
23 years, brother and sister,
23 years,
whole Mecca change
from 95%
disbeliever
now
100%
Muslim.
In 23 years,
What have you done in 23 years?
We even failed to make du'a.
That means there's no mercy in our heart.
We don't care.
So may Allah
put this mercy into our heart. Don't forget
to pray for them. I keep on praying
for my siblings who are not yet Muslim.
Each time when we have an opportunity we
talk about Islam.
When? Only Allah knows, but I will never
give up.
If they send message shared with the family
members,
I will respond with some prayer,
and I always remind them of Allah.
Whether they like or not,
you send a message to me, I send
you also a message
back to show that
we always want everybody
to remember the Creator.
Do your little
thing that you can do, brothers and sisters,
now.
Any last question
from the sisters?
Yeah, please. My question is,
just now we talked about fear.
Fear. Okay. So among the humans we have
fear about,
future,
that whether we will get critical illness, that's
why we purchase insurance.
So
what Islam tells us with this kind of
fear, and is it allowed for us
to purchase the insurance to have the life
protection,
physical ignorance and also medical cards etcetera?
Okay.
We don't put a price for our life.
Taking
insurance for
medical,
education,
yeah, is allowed.
Because now
when you are not well,
if you go to the general hospital, we
don't know how long you have to wait.
But if you have medical insurance
it helps you.
When you are facing bad time at least
there is something
to back up.
The only
insurance that is forbidden
by the Muslim scholars
based on the ayah of the Quran and
the saying of the Prophet that we must
have trust in Allah
is life insurance.
That means you are
putting a price for your life.
No.
You believe that you do what you can,
whatever happened you accept,
and remind your children to be ready for
the worst.
But for medical,
yes.
Yeah.
Fear of
old age,
sickness.
But there's warning
us take good care of yourself,
have a good healthy lifestyle,
Eat halal.
Drink halal.
Make sure you have a good friend around
you
who will help you to have the peace
of problem,
anxieties,
depression,
you know.
I think
depression,
anxiety is a silent killer.
Don't entertain them.
You just do your level best
and then you do and rely on Allah.
There are so many people who are very
poor, they survive.
You have nothing to buy,
but they survive.
There are people who are so worried about
this worry,
they die first.
Yeah. Worry, they keep on worrying about this,
so it's a depression. Why you worry? Do
what you can,
you know. Eat
balanced food, alhamdulillah,
have a good sleep,
good environment,
good mindset,
anything positive positive, then you see life become
positive.
You understand that sis?
So the only thing that you can Of
course, being human we are worried if something
happened to me, who is there to take
care of me,
then you have to plan. No problem.
The plan that you can do like medical
insurance,
educational
insurance, no problem.
Yeah. But make sure if you're given a
choice to the conventional
insurance and the Islamic one, you go for
the Islamic one.
That's how you move on.
You must be proud of our own product.
If there's an Islamic one, go for the
Islamic one. And now even the not yet
Muslim is exploring the Islamic one
because it's here, it it it
bring more benefit.
We must be proud of our value.
But when I say proud of our signature,
not here,
after the you go outside,
freestyle,
then all the other stars come in again.
Example, be proud of this value.
Your case is clear,
alhamdulillah.
So brother and sister we ask we keep
on asking Allah for his
blessing.
Every morning
after the father prayer just recite that or
you can recite before salam.
After tashahood,
before you give salam, you also can recite
that it was allowed.
But if you forget, then you do it
after the prayer.
Morning, evening, just keep on reciting
and be consistent
in your prayer.
And
we have a sister,
Aliza,
whose mother is very unwell
and in Boston.
Of course the mother is not yet a
Muslim,
we will also pray for her. The mother's
name is Silkeem. May Allah
open her heart and may Allah stand a
good Muslim to visit her
that,
suddenly remind her about
lai lai lama, Muhammad Rasulama,
or even sister Aliza, when you call the
mom, you can just whisper to mom
how is your well how is your health?
Is things getting better?
If you know that she's also
having a lot of problem now, she's
thinking that she is
not going to get well, please remind her,
mom can you follow me to respect this?
Follow me, mom.
And if she resides,
you have the right
to pray for her soul, you can remind
us,
we can pray funeral prayer for her. Because
over there maybe it's difficult you don't have
document
to prove that she's a Muslim and then
suddenly
Allah
yeah, take her soul,
then we can do that.
We do that, yeah, many times for our
fellow brothers and sisters
whose family are not yet Muslim
and then they manage to teach them the
Shahada
and they reset Shahada. You don't fight for
their body because there's no document to prove
that they are Muslim.
Let whatever people to do, let them do,
but if they allow you to do,
You can tell your parents, your family member,
and mom become a Muslim, do you allow
us to handle
her funeral? Example,
or his funeral is the father. Then you
say it's up to you.
Then we must engage with our people over
there. The Muslim Center can do help to
arrange for a Islamic funeral.
You can do that.
Yeah. Be
proactive
and always have good faith, yeah, in Allah
that you try your best.
If they fail to respond, you call them
to sit down because the billions of people
pray for your soul, mom, you don't lose
anything.
If they fail then remember the verses of
Quran.
Our prophet been doing his best to call
his beloved uncle who protect him, yeah, to
become Muslim until the end.
Because the pressure is from the other families.
Are you going to abandon the religion of
our forefather because of Muhammad?
Don't do that.
So
he chose not to meet shada.
Well he is an Arab. He's an Arab,
the shahada is an Arab, he can resign.
Then he passed away,
and Allah said to the prophet, you don't
give hidayah to whom you love.
I am the one who give hidayah.
So your duty towards that uncle end there.
No more prayer, Kalas.
But if he managed to shed light then
you can do the prayer for him. Yeah.
So may Allah subhanahu make it easy for
Aliza's mom,
don't ever give up to them,
yeah, until Allah decides
what is best.
So we are also keep on praying for
her well-being
and for those who know him know her,
please,
yeah, you can send our love towards her
and say that we will pray for her
well-being
and you might whisper to her mom, can
you just follow me to recite this?
And the meaning is this and if she
responds,
alhamdulillah.
Yeah.
Never give up. Never give up to our
loved one.
Yeah. Like how a prophet never gave up,
we cannot give up.
So may Allah make it easy for all
of us, brothers and sisters. Is there any
question from the
online question?
Any online question? No. Alhamdulillah.
So brothers and sisters, hope to see you
all from time to time. Be consistent in
seeking knowledge and things that you don't know.
Don't be shy to ask
And may
Allah accept our prayers, forgive all our sins,
and may all of us have a good
ending
by
overcoming
our sadness
and worry
by fearing Allah more than anything else.