Ibraheem Menk – Charity Begins At Home

			Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
		

			Alhamdulillah it's a pleasure to be here in London
		

			I must say it is a different experience for me this time because Subhanallah I've got my mentor, the
person who I consider my shift the person whom I consider to be the my role model that is in front
of me yesterday I had my nerves well, at ends I didn't know what to do. But alhamdulillah one thing
that always that I have found that always calms me down and should calm us all down is the Quran the
word of Allah subhanho wa Taala so bear with me while I recite a few verses from the book of Allah
subhanho wa Taala
		

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thank Allah who believes that he will Jellal for having gathered us here today. And we ask Allah
subhanahu wa taala to surround us with the Malla Iike and to cause his mercy and his Sakina to
descend upon us and to raise us with the Gambia. Allah hemos Salatu was Salam and those whom he has
		

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			healing the ummah.
		

			The question is, how do we heal the Ummah the Ummah is made up of units, and you and I are one of
those units. Allah Allah Allah Allah says, in Allah Allah
		

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			Indeed, Allah doesn't change the condition of a people until they change the condition of
themselves, which means that if we want to see a difference in what is going on in Gaza, we need to
change ourselves, first and foremost. And oftentimes it is easy for us to say that I'd like to lend
a hand of assistance by reaching into my pocket and digging deep and spending and this is a great
act of worship. Don't get me wrong. It is something that is recorded with Allah subhanho wa taala.
But how many of us are ready to get rid of a bad habit that we've had for the last 10 years? 20
years, 30 years, then the conversation becomes a little bit different. I'm weak. I'm weak. These are
		

			the excuses that we have. But the reality of life
		

			is if we want to change. Do you know what science tells us? Science today tells us that if you want
to change, then do one difficult thing that you must do that you don't want to do. And ideally do it
in the early part of the morning so that the rest of your day goes well.
		

			Here comes Islam. Allah Allah Boulez, he will Jalil tells you to wake up for the fragile Salah and
this virtual Salah is difficult for you to render, it is difficult for you to remove those blankets
of your body and then to put your feet onto the floor and trudge to the bathroom and then make will
do with cold water. This is very difficult. But what is Allah subhanahu Attallah doing? Yeah, he's
training our psyche that if you do this, and you win this battle right now right here, you will win
the rest of the day and ultimately your day, your year or your life is made up of yours and you
yours are made up of days if you win each day, and it begins with Virgil Salah to Allah blesses that
		

			he will July then you have broken it down to the unit that can be changed that federal Salah which
one of us can say that it is impossible for me to render it for Allah subhanho wa Taala none of us
will say this will all say tonight, I'll place my alarm clock and I'll make sure that I wake up
because I know that if I render this for Allah at this time of the moon morning, then my life will
change my life will change. You see, Allah Allah Bucha is that he will Jelena says so beautifully.
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			Car recite that which is has been revealed to you off the book. Indeed, Salah prevents you from
immorality and evil. Allah subhanho wa Taala talks about immorality. You see that prayer that you
have, you render it for Allah subhanho wa Taala beginning with the Fajr of Salah in the morning, the
most difficult prayer, you've trained your mind to do the difficult even though you don't want to do
it. So the rest becomes easy. And if you don't, then immorality enters into your life. Immorality is
basically that which is easy to do. Nikka is difficult. If you want to do Nikka you need to have a
certain amount of money you need to have or have the ability to look after another human being. You
		

			need to have the ability to spend on that person. You need to be mature enough to be able to
tolerate that person for your entire life. You need to think about the fact that they will be
children and babies and dirty nappies and you have to change them. And you have to deal with all of
this. Whereas immorality, immorality is you entering into a room doing the deed, enjoying yourself
for a few moments and flooding your brain with chemicals of pleasure. And it's over no babies, no
dirty nappies, no looking after another person know waking up the next morning sit next to the same
face for the next 2030 years. So it is easy, but do you know what with that is comes an anguish what
		

			that is comes a darkness that overcomes the soul, it becomes difficult for you to even live life.
Why? Because every time you want something, you just go and you get it, you don't have a seek be
difficult. And that becomes a flooding of your brain with this chemical that tells you you have
achieved and this ties into our purpose of creation. Allah Allah is is that you will JLL created us
for what to worship him, or a mouthful up until Jin
		

			Woo dune and I created mankind and jinn kind for nothing except for my worship for nothing else,
then my worship. So Allah subhanho wa Taala created us to worship Him because ultimately we shall
return to Him. So if you train your brain to do that, which is easy, yes, you may enjoy it
momentarily, but ultimately there is an anguish there is a pain there is a darkness that you will
have to deal with. And that oh in son, Allah subhanahu wa taala has made you such that you cannot be
it after some time. Hence, I agree
		

			receive messages from those who are addicted to certain scenes. What do they say? I want to kill
myself. I want to get rid of my life I can't live anymore. But this person is enjoying themselves
day in day out. If you look at them from an outside outsider's perspective, they are doing what they
want. Why do they want to kill themselves? Why don't they want to live anymore? You see, so the hard
may be difficult but Allah subhanahu wa taala made it difficult for a reason because the longer
lasting pleasure success is at the end of that road, and Salah is your first step to that success.
Allah subhanahu autolysis or the F la Hellmuth noona leadin team Hershey rune, the believers are
		

			successful, which believers not everybody but those who are conscious in their salah, those who are
conscious in this era. Why because they take time to worship Allah subhanahu Attallah connecting
with the maker that brought them into existence in the first place. And I implore you to look at the
hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam from Allah subhanho wa Taala when the Quran if
enough see the roof enough see the one who remembers me within himself. I will remember him within
myself. Woman that Karan EV mela in the come to the mela in Cairo Minh and the one who remembers me
in a gathering. I remember him in a gathering better than his woman Takara Isla Yoshi Braun, Taka
		

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close to me. Half an arm's length. I come close to him an arm's length woman attorney machine can I
tell you to two who Hawala and the one who comes walking to me I go running into him when you show
Allah a little bit of sincerity. Allah subhanahu wa taala will show you that he wants to come closer
to you more than you want to come closer to him. What does that hadith say woman attorney machine
and the one who comes to Me walking I tell you to her Wallah. I will come to him running. If you
		

			take a look at two people running towards each other, the one or the two people that are gaining
closeness to each other. The one who is running wants to get to the other person faster than the one
who is walking. He is showing that he'd love to get to that person Allah subhanahu Attallah is
saying, I will come running to you what happens when you look after the commandments of Allah
subhanho wa Taala in your life, your life opens up your heart blossoms, no matter what is affecting
you and no matter what is affecting the Ummah, you are at peace, you are at ease. Why? Because I
know ultimately Allah is in control. And I have submitted to him. Dear Brothers and Sisters in
		

			Islam. I'd like to mention one last thing before we end off, you know, in this month of Ramadan that
is coming. Allah subhanahu Attallah he tells us that it is the month of the Quran. And this Quran is
the word of Allah subhanho wa Taala that we recite in our daily prayers so it ties into your prayer
perfectly. It ties into your prayer perfectly. So if you want to change your life, change your life
with salah and the Quran. Allah subhanho wa Taala also tells us that if you want to unite the Ummah,
the only way the only way to unite the Ummah is upon the Quran, while Josie Movia had le la he Jamia
		

			aku and hold on to the rope of Allah subhanahu wa taala. And don't be disunited, don't be disunited.
You see that rope of Allah subhanho wa Taala the scholars mentioned it is a rope from the earth to
the heavens, some of us are holding on to the bottom of the rope and others are holding up a bit
higher and others are even further up. It doesn't mean that because you are higher up you have the
right to kick some of those who are lower down on the rope off the rope. They are trying they are
doing their best. So don't look down on people. You see arrogance and sometimes that arrogance, no
matter how high you up you are on that rope of Allah subhanahu Attallah that arrogance can relegate
		

			you down to the floor and you
		

			and below Allahu Akbar, why I'm wearing a hijab. She opens up her face. I'm covering my face, she
opens up her face. I perform Salah to tahajjud he doesn't we look down on them. We that arrogance
can take you below that person. Well, why bother? We'll help you. Welcome to NUS. What is arrogance,
the rejection of the truth and looking down on people looking down on people with a condescending
look. Ah, who is he? Nobody what has he got in his record? Never do that in your life. And this
ultimately will lead you to become a person who is dis uniting the ummah. We are dis uniting the OMA
instead of uniting the OMA so holdfast on to the rope of Allah subhanahu Attallah Allah subhanahu wa
		

			taala says later on in those verses
		

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			going to be income for us back June venier. Mati if wanna and remember when you enemies when you are
enemies of each other. And Allah subhanahu wa taala joined the hearts together In Kuntum Ida and for
Allah bein of Kulu become he brought your hearts together for us baktun Vinod Murthy he one so you
became brothers. As a result, you became brothers as a result. You see, the only thing that can
gather us together is the word of Allah subhanho wa taala. Because none of us here today will say
that we don't believe in the word of Allah, Allah Boulez that he will gel the Arabs will fighting
each other before Islam. They hated each other. They had walls over petty issues, somebody said
		

			something about another person's family, and they went to war for it, and they killed each other for
it. And along comes Islam and unite these people that hated each other and fought with each other
over the smallest and pettiest of issues. So the only thing that will gather us is the Quran and our
belief in this Quran that Allah subhanho wa Taala has revealed this month of the Quran is about to
enter and we are about to witness it. This is an opportunity for us to change our lives in the same
manner that we say that your day or your year is broken up into a into days. And if you change your
day, then you will change your year and if you change your year you will change your life. These 30
		

			days are the perfect opportunity for you to change your life and as a result, you are becoming a
contributing member of the ummah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, to uniting that Ummah
and to gathering the hearts together, let's do it together for the sake of Allah Hara Boulez that he
will Jellal May Allah subhanahu wa taala forgive me and forgive us all. I mean, what have you Donna
and in hamdulillahi rabbil aalameen