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			Brothers and Sisters in Islam. In Ramadan, we learned the value of putting effort in worship. And as
we explained many times before Allah subhanaw taala loves to see effort from His servants and many
times in Islam, Allah subhanaw taala will reward you on your effort not necessarily on successful
results. That is the case with Dawa that is the case with making effort to pray on time or to wake
up for failure to wake up 4pm
		

			The scholars had the saying they used to say at a boca Damak for into EBA Kudremukh at a paddock,
yeah any exhaust fatigue work your feet, your legs, work them exhaust them meaning in worship in
standing in prayer. And if you do that for entire EBA if you do exhaust them, you do work them well
that Damac they will advance you forward, they will advance you towards Allah azza wa jal they will
advance you on the Day of Judgment. In Ramadan, we tasted the sweetness of a bada of worshiping
Allah azza wa jal, the sweetness of the Quran, the sweetness of nickel and the sweetness of Salah.
So let Allah see you continue to do your best and not abandoned the good deeds until the next from
		

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			On because the purpose was to drop some bad habits and to pick up some good habits that you will
continue for the rest of the year. Yeah, Jen natal Rahmani les the rocky Sutton bellava Leota and
Alan Kessler, Annie, it is saying, Oh, the agenda, the paradise of the Most Merciful, you are not
cheap, but you are expensive for those who are lazy.
		

			So when in this hotbar, we want to focus on three pieces of advice. The first one pertains to
family. The second one pertains to the youth and specifically how they're going to spend the summer.
And the third will be about the winter Surah Salah and its importance. As for families, one of the
studies showed that the average family spends about 37 minutes a day of quality time, just 37
minutes a day, which adds up to just nine days out of the entire year of quality time. If you add
them together, it's just nine days out of 365.
		

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			another study showed that adults spend an average of about three hours a day on social media. And
we're having young kids now young kids will complain to their parents that they're always on their
phone. And then when they become teenagers, the parents complain that they're always on their phone.
But think about the idea of when your child comes to you, and you're doing something and you're
chatting, and you're texting or typing. And then they want to show you something and you told them
not now, and then they want to talk to you about something and then you push them slightly away. Let
me just finish this, think about years and years of every time they come towards you, you push them
		

			away, they come towards you, you push them away. And for most people, when their children are young,
this is one they want to spend time with you more than anyone else in the world. And then they
become teenagers. And then our complaints reverse that children don't want to spend any time this
boy doesn't want to spend any time with the family. Well, part of it was you train them years of
pushing him away years of not now years of Wait a minute, that years when they wanted to spend time
with you. You didn't want to then they become teenagers, they don't want to spend time with you. And
now you're looking for that quality time. So beware of that. And we have all seen families to
		

			families getting together for a feast or a barbecue. And then you look at them, every single one in
the living room has their head down on their phone. But why? What are you gathering for in that
case, and everybody comes together drive the distance, and everyone just has their head on their
phone?
		

			One of the Dark One of the dots even I was speaking to one of his sons, and he has no clue what his
other three siblings are studying at the university. So I asked him, Do you live in the same home?
How could you not know what your siblings are studying? He says I don't see them. So you can't all
be that busy. You don't meet over lunchtime. He says my mother prepares the pot and leaves it on the
stove. And she just yells out announces that it's lunch is ready. He says one brother will come take
his plate, go watch TV, the other will come take the plate, go to his room, the other sister will
come take their plate and go to their bedroom. And so he says I never get to see them. They don't
		

			even know each other. So beware. And especially in the summer, monitor your children's behavior,
monitor how they treat each other and how they talk to each other. And it's not acceptable that
siblings hate one another. And one time even in our community. We asked the children and all the
words towards their siblings were words of hatred and displeasure and dislike. So monitor that very
closely and make sure they have a good relationship. And that words like I hate my brother I hate my
siblings are absolutely not acceptable.
		

			But when it comes to spouses, and this is one of the best pieces of advice offered by one of the
Messiah. He was saying that when people when someone gets married, the focus his focus, the man is
on his wife. And her focus is on the husband and they're focused on each other. The minute they have
children, there is an unwritten agreement. Now that we have children, we have to put all our energy
and time and focus into raising righteous and proper children. So they both shift the focus
completely on to the children. And then what happens they start to neglect each other. The wife will
neglect herself the husband will neglect himself. And then he starts looking around and all kinds of
		

			problems happen because they didn't give attention to one another. One study said that couples will
spend just 12 nights out of the year of quality time together out of the whole year just 12 nights
together. And we'll see cases of
		

			For couples on the brink of divorce, and their problem would be that she has just become a creature
created to take care of the children. So she's just doing laundry, cooking, cleaning, making sure
they do the homework by the time he gets home, she's completely fatigued, or she just complains
about their grades and what they did today in their misbehavior. He says we have no relationship
whatsoever. So the shift said that even after you have children, the focus is still on one another.
And now you have children, but the focus is still on one another. But many people automatically say
now we have children, we have to focus on them. And they neglect neglect their relationship. And
		

			that's why we see so many troubled relationships and couples coming for counseling and going for
other to other places for counseling. Because of this, because they have nothing together, they just
focus on being servants to these children.
		

			When it comes to the youth, we are saying there is nothing that is more important than Islamic
knowledge. And if you don't believe this, you're going to go full circle, and you're going to come
back to the same place. One of the biggest challenges that will be facing Muslims in North America,
it is already one of the biggest challenges and it will continue to become more apparent in the
coming years. And that is youth leaving Islam, and they're leaving Islam for the absolute most
ridiculous reasons whatsoever. For fifth reasons that they don't even comprehend. We don't they
don't even do enough research. This doesn't make sense and they start to leave Islam. This is one of
		

			the biggest issues. And the only thing that can help after Allah azza wa jal is Islamic knowledge.
This is the solid rock that will withstand all these waves that are crashing down upon you day in
and day out.
		

			A man came to the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam So the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam asked him
magia a bigger way and what brought you here what brought you to me, Florida jet to a global end? He
says I came to seek knowledge. So the Prophet sallallahu Sallam asked him, Allah Murgia obika ilaha
Yanni it means I asked you about Allah, nothing brought you here except that Allah Allah
		

			is making the oath of Allah and nothing brought me here except seeking knowledge. So then the
president tells him in that manner ICA now Tada Oh Ha ha ha ha the polyblend rhythm be Maya snap,
that the angels lower their wings for the students of knowledge, out of being pleased of what they
do, meaning seeking knowledge. One time the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam came out to the
companions, and they were in a gathering of learning and Dhikr so he asked them ma Accardo what made
you sit here? They said to God, nah, not Corolla. They said we sat down to mention Allah azza wa
jal, and he said, ah Allah, ma cada Camila Harada. I asked you by Allah nothing made you sit down
		

			here except that remembering Allah subhanaw taala.
		

			They said Allah Yanni they made the oath me yes by Allah. That's the only thing that made us sit
here. He said, Am I in Neelam as the Khalifa come to Mata la come? He said, I didn't ask you by
Allah as an accusation in an accusatory way that I don't believe you. Well, I can knee jerk to come,
but I came to let you know, and Najib Briella Jaya Annie Bharani and Allah Yuba he bitumen Mala Iike
o Mala Ekata who that I came to tell you that Allah subhanaw taala was boasting based on what you
were doing boasting your deeds in front of the angels that were that are with him? What else can
grant you this honor? And what else could you do on this earth and Allah subhanaw taala will boast
		

			in front of the angels look at my servants, and how good no matter how good you get a basketball,
that's not going to happen. No matter how good you get at video games, that's not going to happen.
So for parents, then the advice is to care about your child's Islamic knowledge. Many parents come
to us when it's too late. Many cases, a child will be watching videos of atheist hours upon hours
per day, then they decide they're leaving Islam. Then they bring him here and they want in one
session that we magically touch them and something happens and they come back to the dean and their
Messiah or what have you. It doesn't work like that. And you have to be in charge of that you have
		

			to monitor that the entire time. And it never fails. It never fails. The best students are always
meaning Islamically are always always the ones whose parents care about their Islamic education. It
never fails. You look at the four Imams Imam Malik Imam Muhammad Shafi Abu Hanifa Imam, Allah, all
of them were orphans and all of them have mothers had mothers who cared about their Islamic
education and lay him out
		

			his sister's oldest sister was the one who cared about his Islamic education. Imam Shafi. He was so
poor and his mother was poor, but she would go out and she would find us paper. They were too poor
to buy paper and she would find us paper that's acceptable. They tried to erase from it so he could
use it to learn it on his his Deen. So for the youth, we also say the Quran, there is nothing that
you read that will be greater nor more beneficial for you than the Quran. Our problem is just we
belittle the Quran, and I mentioned the story before where a young man came, actually he didn't want
to come to speak to an Imam and his all his friends because the Imam is gonna tell me read the
		

			Quran. And as if there is no benefit in this Imams, they don't know what they're doing. They just
told me to go read the Quran and make his vicar makes the father just throw these cop outs at me. So
we made sure to tell him at the end of the session to read the Quran, because that is the correct
answer. us read the Quran. And if you read the Quran, you wouldn't be I don't want to go into what
he was confused about. It was something beyond ridiculous beyond ridiculous that a philosophy
professor told him but the answer would have been in the Quran has he always flipped through its
pages.
		

			And one of our youth in Virginia, he used to run around the masjid would yell at him and then they
went and enter the Quran competition. So they all traveled to Saudi Arabia. And while they were
there, after the competition, they took all of the contestants to the Kaaba, and they opened the
doors of the Kaaba and let them walk inside and pray inside the cup. Many great scholars haven't
prayed inside the Kaaba. But there is nothing else in this world they could have done in the United
States that will get them to go all the way to Mecca and have someone open the door of the Kaaba and
allow them inside. They could have become the greatest athlete of all time, no one would invite them
		

			to pray inside the Kaaba. They could have memorized whatever they memorized nothing except the
Quran. Nothing elevates people like the Quran. Nothing strengthens Eman like the Quran, and nothing
protects after Allah azza wa jal like the Quran. And it's so sad that the number one thing that
replaces the Quran, and the hearts and the minds and in the ears of our youth, especially, and even
our adults, it's music. And many follow the mistaken opinion that music is Hello. It's 100% mistaken
opinion. 100%. And if it's not mistaken, have one of our youth right now grab this microphone, and
just say the lyrics of the things you listen to every day. What is the subject matter? What is the
		

			content? What kind of words are they? Would you be embarrassed to come and say it right now in front
of the community? How is it Hala and what is shame that this nonsense is what's replacing the
greatest words ever the words of Allah subhanaw taala.
		

			As for the summer, make sure this is for the youth make sure you focus on Islamic learning focus on
the Quran, and for the parents encourage them to care for that the same way you encourage them to
care for their schools and their studies and their swim classes and their soccer practice. This
summer we have a lot of learning programs and activities for all kinds of ages for high school and
college. We have classes for the young we have the summer program, and make sure they don't waste
their time and they don't miss opportunities to learn.
		

			Make sure they learn something new every day meaning something new about their religion every day
and enough facts about frogs and mountain goats and things that important things one of the young
men he said I made a vow to learn something new every day. He said one day I was super busy and I
went to bed then I remembered that I didn't learn anything. I turned the light on grab the book
opened and read the Hadith immediately, something new every day. Or at least learn a skill some
beneficial skill mechanics woodworking something in the summer. A few summers ago for our summer
program entry summer program we brought in it's something simple, we brought wood, nails and
		

			hammers. And we had the students just hammer a nail into a piece of wood. And these kids were saying
we've never in our life driven a nail into a piece of whatever. We had them go outside and learn how
to change a tire. We had them learn how to sweep and these are basic things one day they're gonna go
live in a dorm. And one day you're gonna go visit their dorm and you're gonna be surprised at how a
human being can live in such filth because they never learned basic skills. And we're in tennis to
teach that the summer so take advantage of these opportunities. Akula colada was tougher. Hola Hola.
Hola, Emily, welcome in German as you know first off Euro fair photo most of Vereen ask Allah
		

			Subhana Allah for his forgiveness. Indeed, though
		

			philosopher's forgiveness shall prosper.
		

			hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah hill I mean, while he was here
Jemaine about in the month of Ramadan, we many of us got used to and accustomed to praying the
winter prayer. The winter prayer The Scholars say is a sunnah Makeda and many people misunderstand
this term they think what could it means confirmed like some sooner or not confirmed this one's
confirmed like what could it means and Nabi SallAllahu Sallam never ever skipped it ever. They said
for suffer or Philharmonie whether he was traveling or whether he was a resident, he never ever
skipped a letter. Even if he missed it, he would make it up the next day. He would make it up the
		

			next day. And it's time is after a sharp prayer. After you pray sharp. You can pray a little later.
Or if you're traveling and you combine you pray mother and combine it with Russia. You can pray the
waiter at that point also, if you're a traveler,
		

			but it's best at the end of the night. It is known and narrated that the Prophet sallallahu Sallam
cradle Witter in the beginning of the night and then he prayed it in the middle of the night. And
then he prayed it at the end of the night and that became his sunnah to pray at the end of the
night. And
		

			it is the scholars say it is the best prayer after the fight. And Nabi SallAllahu sallam said law
you have to look at Allah with three in movement. He says the only one who maintains or keeps up
with the Witr Prayer is the believer. So the scholar said he made it sallallahu alayhi salam, one of
the signs of Eman to pray with her. Imam Malik Rahim Allah He used to say if any man misses three
waiters in a row for who Umbro su he is a wicked man. If he misses three winters, he is a wicked
man. Why? Because number one, it is so short one Raka. And what would you know that the Grace had
never ever skipped it? And if he skipped it, he made it up? Why on earth would you skip it? And it's
		

			just one Raka. Then the other thing,
		

			the Kedah and the fact that the Muslim would never skip it. So this he said, If a man skips three
waters is a wicked person. In another Hadith, the prophet Salam said in Allah who could Zarda come
Salatin for Salah in Allah who could Zarda come Salatin for Salah. He says Indeed, Allah has
increased you a prayer. So pray it is talking about later. So Allah Allah, so some of the scholars
of Islam called Witr Prayer, the sixth prayer, the way they understood this hadith, that Allah azza
wa jal gave you five prayers and then he added one to them. So they said that's the sixth prayer.
That's how important they saw it. So they said the best prayer after the five no doubt is the winter
		

			prayer followed then second best would be the Sunnah for Fajr rosary but Al Fajr and then after that
will be all the other sunnah. And some scholars even went to the, to the extent of saying that
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			it is permissible to pray it in one raka This is the majority opinion of the madaket Shaeffer is an
humble is this is based on the Hadith in Sahih Bukhari and Muslim also insolent epidote and Anessa.
In the merger and the besar Salam said, if you want to pray it as five that's fine if you want to
pray as three that's one that's fine, and if you pray it as one that's also fine. And in a hadith
narrated by Ahmed and necessery, a dar Remi and as considered so, he, the prophet Lim paraded three
rock out with one Tisha hood, the first he recited al Fatiha and submit his model because Allah, the
second al Fatiha and sort of Catherine and then the third sort of floss, and then he made one to
		

			Jehovah in the end. And you can also obviously pray it in any of the sort of the Quran it doesn't
matter and there were times when the porcelain prayed even much longer than that. Then narrated by
Ibn headband al Hakim, Adar, Putney and even
		

			came in London McLean, he mentioned that with the Sahara is not the Prophet sallallahu sallam said
low to tear with Allah thin, outer Byham sin Oh southern. And then this is the part of the heavies,
he says
		

			and do not make it resemble Salatin. Maghrib do not make it resemble Salatin McGraw so the scholar
said, You pray the three rock art but not like McGraw prayer, you don't sit for the first dish. I
hope you continue to get up again for the third time and then you end it with the last dish out.
Similarly, if you pray at five, and seven, and so on.
		

			With that I'd like to conclude
		

			With a conversation that I overheard in right here in America, in Atlanta, Georgia, and there were
these three friends, and they were talking in front of me, and they had made a pact. And one of the
reasons it's so easy to worship Allah azza wa jal in Ramadan is that everyone's doing it. Everyone
is fasting, everyone's praying winter, everyone's giving soda kinda makes it easier. So these
friends came up with a brilliant idea. They made a winter challenge between the three of them, that
they're challenging each other to see which one of them will be the first one to skip a winter. And
they were talking that it was months and none of them skipped with a prayer and one of them was
		

			saying the other day I was extremely fatigued and tired, but I still got up and I still pray the
winter and I didn't want to lose the challenge. You can do things like that just to encourage one
another especially for the youth for winter prayer for the Quran for fasting so you don't abandon it
for giving sadaqa this little challenges and these challenges have nothing to do with the purity of
your intention with Allah azza wa jal, yani just like when we have Quran competitions, people were
initially memorizing it for the sake of Allah azza wa jal, and then the competition and the prize
and the position just serves as an extra boost or an extra motivator. With that, we ask Allah
		

			subhanaw taala to make us of those who recognize the truth as clear truth and follow the best of it,
and to make use of those who recognize falsehood as clear falsehood and abstain from it.
		

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Ahmed, Ya Allah accept what little we presented in the month of Ramadan. Yeah, Allah accept our
fasts. Ya Allah accept what we gave in charity, forgive our sins and free us from the Hellfire era
banana mean.
		

			Ya Allah you are the one who is not in need, and we are the ones who are in desperate need for love
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