Karim Abuzaid – Three Men & an Angel
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The importance of narrating stories in Islam is discussed, including the act of gratitude and the structure of the message. The speaker emphasizes the need to work for wealth and learn about Islam's cultural implications, as well as the importance of gratitude and understanding one's own history. The speaker provides advice on working for wealth and avoiding comparing oneself with others, as well as providing insight into the nature of Islam and its cultural implications.
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My dear respected brothers and sisters in Islam,
once again,
My name is Karim Abuzid.
I'm visiting your community this weekend
for the invite.
And,
they
instructed me to
talk about the story
of the leopard,
the bald,
and
the blind.
Famous story
in Bani Israel,
the sunnah to Sahihah and the authentic sunnah.
The hadith actually in Sahih al Bukhari, Sahih
Muslim.
And
those are the highest
sources
of authentic hadith
we have.
But allow me to
introduce
the topic
because
it's always important to understand
the context.
The prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, one day,
he was addressing his companions,
and he said to
them,
Is any of you
unable
to recite
3rd of the Quran
every night.
The companions
asked,
what is third of the Quran, oh messenger
of Allah?
He said,
He said,
Surat Al Ikhlas,
which we all memorize,
equals 3rd of the Quran.
Of course,
this
hadith
triggered
those who are well versed
with the Quran,
the like of Abdullah ibn Abbas
Someone
made du'a for him.
He said,
Oh, Allah,
teach him the interpretation of the Quran.
So he looked into this hadith,
and he came up with the following conclusion,
which
Sheikh
Islam
compiled authentically. He he mentioned the senate in
his fatawa.
He said
the Quran can be divided into 3
parts.
The first
is Tawhid.
The second is
Sharia,
the Sharia.
Do, do not do.
And the third
is the
historic narrative
of the nations before us.
So Tawhid,
which really the essence of it in Surat
Al Ikhlas,
that is why it equals 3rd of the
Quran.
Then
Shariah,
do this, do not do that. Then the
stories.
So the stories
are extremely important.
And if you read the Mus'haf,
a lot of stories
in the Quran.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam mentioned
a lot of stories in his sunnah.
But these stories were not mentioned
for entertainment.
It's nice to hear,
but stories are mentioned to derive lessons and
to learn from them.
Look at this concluding verse in Surat Yusuf.
Indeed, in their narratives,
there is a Ibra,
an admonition
to who?
The possessors to those who possess
brains,
intellect. Yeah. Those who reflect.
Those who
understand.
The stories, yes, they are entertaining and
but we need to understand
that
we really engage
in reading these stories
in order to
derive a lesson.
In few days,
few days, just few days,
the prophet
wanted the entire
to reflect upon the story
of Musa.
What has happened in a few days?
Ashwara,
reflect upon that story.
And
the encounter
with Bani Israel in Medina when he arrived,
Abdulla ibn Abbas also narrated that hadith. When
he arrived Medina, he found the Jews
fasting the day of Ashura and dressing really
neatly
some sort of celebration. So he asked them,
why are you doing this?
They said, well, this is the day on
which Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala saved Musa
and his people from the fear of his
host. Fasamahu Musa shukr alillah.
Musa alayhi salam fasted this this day
to display his gratitude,
to show his gratitude.
So the prophet
looks at his companions and he tells them,
we have more right to claim Musa than
them.
We are the followers of Musa, not them.
Because if they are truly the followers of
Musa,
they should be here with us.
And this is why they are here in
the first place. Why Badi Israel what Badi
Israel would do in Medina?
Because they read in their scripture that there
is a messenger who will migrate to that
city, and they are supposed to follow him.
So Rasul
wanted the Ummah to reflect upon that story
and derive lesson from it.
Beside receiving the reward, if you fast the
day of Ashura, what do you get? Hadith
al Bukhtadaf Sahih Muslim, what do you get?
The previous year,
expiation of the minor sins.
By default, major sins, repentance is required.
But again, I go back to the subject.
Rasulullah Salam actually wanted us to reflect upon
that story. Look at the ummah.
They leave that story
and they come up with an event that
happened after
the death of the grandchild
of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and they bring out this stuff.
And they bring it in a way disgraceful.
Aminif Al Hussein
would see that himself,
he would condemn it.
Weeping and crying and
who are you weeping for?
Rasulullah,
the grandfather,
said about them,
They
are the youth leaders
in Jannah. They are in Jannah.
You crying over them?
Just try to attain the rank.
And you got another
sect in the Ummah who put in their
eyes and
throw a meal or a party
celebration.
What happened to that story?
How Allah restored them and how Allah saved
them.
I don't wanna divert away from the story
I'm here for,
but I just wanna show you
that Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
himself would actually narrate and trigger this
somehow inside you to read that story.
One of the most profound nations
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentioned their stories
to us is Bani Israel.
You cannot imagine
the amount of stories we have about the
people
from the get go, from the Quran,
from the Quran.
The Quran is filled.
To the extent that some scholars actually they
made that statement. You know what they said?
Quran. The entire Quran was about to be
designated to Musa and Bani Israel
and over
the
Musa.
Over the Musa.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam tells
you had
Israel.
Talk about the children of Israel.
They had a lot of wonders.
Amazing things.
One of them is that story
that we have.
But a hadith many Israeli
can be categorized into authentic.
That would include the stories mentioned in the
Quran
or
in the sunnah,
which is authentic.
Example of them is this. This story is
from Bani Israel.
It's it's authentic. Why it's authentic? Because,
we know his work. Ilham Muslim,
both compile the hadith.
The narrator is Abi Huraira,
like the story of,
the boy and the king, Surat al Buruj,
is authentic
Muslim.
So Hayib Arum narrated it.
Like the story of Jurayj,
the
monk, is authentic,
but there are a lot of stories which
are not authentic,
which they call what?
Where did we get these Israel?
That reverts
from
the Jew the Jewish and the Christian tradition.
They are very well versed with their books,
which is distorted,
has some truth in it.
So when they accepted Islam,
they will find some relevance
between
the stories they have in the
Old and New Testament, let's use that,
and the Quran so you they would narrate
it.
Now what is our position
position regarding these stories?
As long as it is not contradictory
to our beliefs.
We could narrate it, but we don't believe
it,
we don't belied.
We We just narrate it for fun,
provided
that it doesn't teach
something that is contradictory.
Like, Samiri, for example,
the person who
influenced Bani Israel to
in in the desert when they were wandering
in the desert to come up with a
golden calf and to worship.
Somebody tell you, his mother,
in order to save him like Musa,
his mother saved him by throwing him in
the Nile, his mother took him to the
went to the desert and delivered him in
the desert.
His mother actually to save him from the
slaughtering because, you know, the pharaoh used to
slaughter.
So she took him to the desert,
and she delivered him there.
And she died.
Guess who you who used to take care
of him?
Jibril, alaihis salam.
But, again, do I believe that?
Do I belied that?
No. But the story that we have tonight,
brothers and sisters in Islam,
is authentic story.
And
the context of this story is an act
which
Allah
ruled
that only few
perform it.
The act
The station
of gratitude,
being grateful.
Allah said in the Quran,
Very few are grateful to me.
Shook as it should be.
The servitude,
the word servitude is like equals.
The servitude, brothers and sisters in Islam,
Rasulullah
made it half of the religion.
Half of the religion.
Should ask me for the evidence. What is
the evidence for that?
That is half. What is the second half?
Patience.
When a calamity befalls him,
Actually,
this servitude,
if you encounter
this belief, it's the entire religion.
Mankind,
we guided him. We showed him
Whether he is
shakuran,
grateful,
what is the opposite?
Kaffoorah.
This
servitude, brothers and sisters, in Islam is extremely
important because without it
without it, you really
are not gonna worship Allah
The foundation of the servitude. Oh,
by the way, all the acts that are
performed with the heart,
they are
stemmed or generated
from your,
which is
the pillar,
the foundational
pillar of your iman.
What is tasdikh?
That you
believe without any shadow of doubt
that you are the making of your Lord.
Allah made you.
Allah created you.
Allah giving you what you have.
That you have
is from
Allah. Reflect upon this hadith,
which is Fil Bukhari,
Imran,
Ibn Hussein,
or radiAllahu anhu, is the narrator.
A delegation from Yemen
came to the prophet
in Madina.
We came to understand our religion,
but look look what they are hearing for.
Look what they are talking.
And we wanna know how everything
started.
This formula that we're living, how did it
start?
Look at this.
The prophet
immediately understood exactly what they are looking for.
He said to them,
At one stage, it was only Allah in
existence,
and no one else
existed at
all.
Then he, subhanahu wa ta'ala, created the pen
and told the pen to write.
The pen said write what? Everything
which will happen
until the day of judgment.
When was the thriving?
When?
50 1000 years.
50,000
years,
Allah wrote your name,
your first and last,
where you will be born,
Your
risk.
You wrote that.
You wrote it.
Commenced on this. He says,
Allah mentioned your name before you mentioned his
name.
Allah named you.
He provided for you
before you ask him.
But the problem
with this if
you do not believe that,
if you don't believe what you have is
from Allah
First of all,
you will never be able to worship Allah
truthfully and sincerely.
Because the moment that you assume that you're
self independent,
self sufficient,
What?
But the moment that you feel like,
The moment that you live there,
you're gonna always worship Allah
We're
gonna worship him.
The scholars they say
the people look at the bounties
which Allah bestowed upon them
2 ways.
The Soleimani way,
another Soleimani,
and the Karuni way.
The messenger of Allah. When
the
brought the throne of the queen of Sheba
to him
in a blink of an eye.
Imagine that. He blinked, and the throne was
there.
Only Allah can do this
to test me,
whether
I'm gonna be grateful
or ungrateful.
But look at
Karun.
Look at this.
Imagine you need a dozen men,
not just men, with
extra strength physicals to carry the keys, not
the treasures. The keys to the treasures.
But what did he say?
I got this because I'm smart.
I went to Harvard.
I went to Yale.
I'm a smart businessman.
This is the beginning
of failure.
The moment
that you assume
what you have
is not from Allah.
So Allah said to him, okay. Keep it.
You got it because you're smart? Now keep
it.
Likewise,
the story we have.
That story in particular,
I really love it because
it it just
it shows you
how the human
can be so ungrateful,
so ungrateful.
And,
you know, being ungrateful
is something that you do not like
as a human.
Sufyanne Thawry
do we know who Sufyanne Thawry is? One
of the imams
from the 3 generations.
He made a statement regarding this,
which is very profound. You know what he
said?
We examined
the root cause
and the origin of animosity between people on
earth.
We found that you do a favor for
someone,
and he's ungrateful.
He actually harms you.
I mean, if I do you a favor,
at least I should expect what? No harm
from you. No.
Harm you.
That's
You know, there is a chapter in the
Quran.
I'm to go and tell Aisha. Right? Or
no? You guys gonna stay with me till
Aisha or no?
You know, when I open like that, it's
just
I'm enjoying you. So are you enjoying it?
Then we can stay till Asia.
Right? Alright? Sounds good? Yeah. I don't wanna
chastise you. You know, this is
But I came all the way from the
US, transatlantic flight. So
alright?
You know, there is a chapter in the
Quran,
which the scholars
gave it the name
Anyone knows which Surah is that?
Surah. And that Surah,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentioned
every little bounty
that we have.
I look in the middle of it, he
says,
And thus,
Allah is perfecting
and completing
his
favors,
boundaries
upon you so that you submit to him.
You believe that this niyama is coming from
Allah
and you worship
him. At the end of the surah,
when Allah
wanted to give
an example to the entire Ummah
and to our messenger
of someone who is grateful.
Who did Allah mention at the end of
the
He's grateful.
When you're grateful,
you will give your best.
Are you grateful that you're a Muslim?
Are you?
Are you?
How come you're not giving it to some
you're not passing that bounty to someone else?
How come?
How come we're
slacking? Why did I mention Ibrahim?
There is a beautiful
That Ibrahim alaihi salam
went to visit Ishmael.
See, when you read the Old Testament,
all what we read,
Sarah
Alaihi Salam
What should we say?
What?
What should we say?
If I know that you do not believe
women cannot be messengers, I could say alayhis
salaam.
But if you guys into that wishy washy
kinda,
you know, women's thing,
why not they can be messengers and prophet?
Do I we have some brothers in the
field of the door. So I say
because if you say
to a congregation like this, oh, this sheikh
he's on the same page with us.
She's a messenger.
No.
So I have to be secured here.
I'm gonna say but we know that women
cannot be what?
We're okay with that. Right?
Otherwise, I say
I'm threatening you here.
Alright.
So when he you know, when we read
the Old Testament, all we know that Sarah
said to Ibrahim, take Hajar and her baby
away.
And where the story dies.
We have any reverts here. They would know
what I'm talking about, the book of Genesis.
There is no mention at all
as if they disappeared.
That's why this Netanyahu
guy, we he calls them what? The children
of the dark.
You know, the prime minister of Israel, he
says,
we are the children of the dark. They
disappeared.
We are the children of the light.
Well,
you made up that stuff anyways.
But you see,
the Quran and the Sunnah came to reveal
what they concealed.
We actually read that Ibrahim in that hadith,
Ibrahim made up to 5 trips
between Jerusalem, between Al Khalil to be accurate,
Hebron,
and Mecca.
So one of these trips,
he arrived at Ismail's house.
Knock. Knock. Knock.
Who is your husband?
Ismael alaihi salam used to hunt. He used
to go to the nomad and spend some
time, hunt, bring the meat, and come back.
So the wife said the the the wife
doesn't know that this
is Ismael's father.
He went out hunting.
Look at the question.
How's it
going?
Awful.
Terrible.
Rahim said, when your husband comes back,
say salaam to him
and ask him to change his doorstep.
A wife like this, I'm sorry.
Even if she goes to
the malls every day,
with with all due respect to the sister,
I'm sure we have sisters here so we
don't wanna
abuse them, but those are the type. We
have that type.
We have the
type. Who knows
when the prophet
delivered a sermon on aid
to the women?
What did he say to them?
Give because I have seen you, the majority
of the dwellers of *.
In in, in one of the wording of
this hadith that one of the women, one
of the ladies who were addressed by the
prophet
chased the prophet
out
asking him why.
Why is that?
He said
Because you're ungrateful to your husbands.
And again, we're talking about the certain types
of women, not our sisters.
Right?
Not your wives. Come on.
I'm not talking about those. Right? Talking about
a complete different domain
of females.
Look at this.
If the man is going by the book
all his
life, all his life,
Then you see one thing that you don't
like,
or you hear one thing
that you don't like,
you would say
to him,
Here's what I like about this hadith.
Never
seen any good from you.
Again, we're talking about we're not talking about
our sisters, brothers.
We're talking about we're not talking about your
family too.
We're talking about a complete different
Ibrahim,
he wouldn't like his son
to have a wife like that.
I'm looking at the clock here, and I
think we should engage in the hadith I'm
supposed to talk about.
So 3 individuals,
Allah wanted to test them.
So he sent
to them an angel.
And Ben Israel, by the way, they had
that stuff, angels coming to them and
not like us.
You know, they had really a lot of
privileges.
The first one
was a leopard.
I'm here to
fulfill your wish. What can I do for
you?
Imagine it.
Well,
please.
I want
fresh
skin.
People are despised from me. Of course, leprosy
is what? Infectious. Right?
So you wouldn't like to be around.
That's normal.
The
angel wide over his body or
his skin completely
replaced.
What kind of wealth do you like?
What kind of wealth do you like?
Kennels.
I like camels.
Here is a female
pregnant.
Bregnant.
Come. Right here.
Start.
Get going.
Then he moved to the next one
who was bold.
Not the regular boldness that we have, but
it's a disease in the head.
Hey. How's it going?
Well,
you see,
what can I do for you?
I wish I can have here.
People look down upon me.
Then
he wide over his head.
Here he is giving beautiful
hair.
He went to the third one who was
blind.
He doesn't
see.
What's up?
What can I do for you?
Well,
I'd like to see.
Here you are.
A site was restored.
We forgot to mention that the other one
the second one asked for what?
Cows.
What kind of wealth do you want? Cows.
I like cows.
So here's a pregnant
cow.
Proceed.
The third one,
his sight was restored.
What type of wealth do you want?
Sheep.
He is a pregnant
sheep.
Proceed.
And he
left them for years.
Time passed by.
Their wealth
multiplied.
Lot of wealth.
Time for the test.
So the angel comes to the man who
used to be a leopard
in a form of leprosy.
He himself
is a leopard.
As you can see, I'm sick.
Just one camel,
please. One camel
so that I can make it home, please.
Or so and so?
I can't.
I'm sorry. I have a lot of obligations.
I can't do that for you. Just one.
Just one.
You have a lot? Just one?
No.
Then he looks at him,
and he says,
I think I know you.
Weren't
used to be a leopard,
and Allah stored your skin and you were
poor, and Allah giving you that wealth.
He Said, no. I'm you're mistaken.
I inherited this wealth from my father.
This is inheritance.
You're mistaken.
The
angel
makes
dua.
Oh, Allah. If he is lying,
restore him
to his default,
how he was.
You know, this story really, you know, is
like one of the sci fi, you know,
stuff. You know, like this. And everything, you
know, like, you you know, sometimes you see
that sci
fi images, pictures, like,
you know, that the kids like this stuff.
You know?
So by all the sudden, the camels are
gone
from the picture,
and he's back being a leopard.
He goes to the second one.
Again, bolt
in the same form.
In the same form.
Please
help me.
Give me one cow so I can sell
it, so I can
go back home.
I'm away here.
Fear. Yeah. Had also.
I have a lot of obligations.
I'm sorry. I can't.
I think I remember you.
Weren't
you bold and
poor
and Allah giving you all of this?
No. No. No. You're mistaken.
I inherited this wealth
from my ancestors.
He went to the blind.
Wayfarer.
And he he went to not form also
flying
again.
Can you please just give me one sheep
so I can go home?
Maybe sell it
and make it back home.
Oh, so and so.
Take as many as you want.
By Allah,
I will not stop you.
I used to be like you,
blind,
and Allah restored my sight.
And I used to be poor,
having nothing, and he giving me all of
that.
May Allah bless your wealth.
You passed the test.
You passed the test.
Let's say,
the essence of the hadith.
The essence of the hadith is fitna
of wealth.
What you're gonna see me, like, you know,
taking on the fundraising. I'm not fundraising.
Right?
Okay.
No. Seriously. Because what I'm gonna say, you
probably heard it in context of someone who's
raising funds, but I'm not raising funds.
All of these are hadith are authentic.
The son of Adam says wealth, money, money,
money.
What is your wealth, oh son of Adam?
What do you need the money for?
What do you need it for?
That's all you need the money for.
Some people,
all their pleasure
is to look at the bank account.
And they are so stingy
even on themselves
Even on themselves.
But, like, one day, the prophet
asked his companions saying,
Which wealth do you love more?
Your money
or the money of your
heirs or the person who will inherit you?
He said our money
I like my money. He said your your
money is what you spend now,
but the money that you leave behind,
fitna will melt.
The fitna of wealth.
And many people feel that fitna
when they know
that there will be 2 questions about it.
Two questions about it on the day of
judgment.
The son of Adam will not move from
the land of gathering on the day of
judgment unless he is asked about 4 or
5 days of generation.
Two questions about money.
His wealth. How did he earn it?
And how did he spend it?
How did you spend your money?
How did you earn this money?
Muslim businessmen
at this time and age, they have all
type of consultants.
All type of consultants,
feasibility
study.
But when it comes to verifying whether this
business transaction is halal or haram
No? And they call us for free. We
don't charge people when they call us.
Chief, can you verify this contract? Yeah.
Brother, just give me some time.
I am not gonna charge you.
He doesn't wanna hear halal or haram.
No.
In America, we have these companies
that go and get the money
from the conventional banks.
You know,
exactly like the people who sell halal meat,
they say it's halal, but what? They just
put the word halal in there.
But they really got it from somewhere. Allah
knows best.
I'm not saying your shops. Okay? I'm not
I don't know that. But I'm just using
this as a terrible.
I hope I'm not spoiling the hadal business
here.
No. But these people, they go and take
conventional
loans
from the banks in America
and themselves, they pay interest.
And they become the front with the Muslim.
It's halal.
Let's have a contract. They take the contract
and sell it.
You you don't wanna do usury? It's haram.
Yeah. We'll do it for you.
And then the Muslims, they go and that.
And while they know
in America, it's a federal law. If you
take any loan,
you have to give it back with an
increase, with interest.
We have an I don't know if they
have it here in England or not. We
have something called 401 k, which is like
a pension kind of. Right?
That's your money.
If you break in that before
it's due time,
you have to return it back with interest.
You pay interest to you,
to your account.
Why?
Because they wanna men they wanna maintain that
system, that user base system.
How the entire system is set on.
So brothers, they go into business and they
do all these business transactions, and
they hardly ask.
Rather, they go and shop around for a
fatwa.
Okay. Let me this year. Okay. This year.
This this year. This year.
Why?
Because of Dunia.
Because of wealth.
Because of wealth,
money.
And the problem with this
addiction to money or to wealth
is
you can't have enough of it.
You cannot find a bitter
articulation
or illustration of this than what the prophet
said. If the son of Adam has 2
valleys of gold,
That's a lot of gold. You know what
a valley is. Right? A valley is a
gap between 2 what?
That's a lot of gold.
Will he say that enough?
No.
I want the third one.
I don't want you to sit out there
and say, you know,
no.
No. No. No. No. No.
We need wealthy Muslims.
But wealthy Muslims
who know
the objective behind this wealth,
they know that's the test from Allah to
them,
and they have to fear Allah regarding earning
it.
And they have to spend it
in the cause of Allah.
At least
that use
the right of the poor and the needy
in it.
We want that because listen.
If we leave this dunya to the disbelievers,
guess what?
They will use these resources to fight you,
to fight Islam.
Why?
Those who disbelieve, they spend their wealth
to hinder,
place obstacles,
hurdles
in the way of people
to believe.
Defeam Islam,
demonize Muslims,
Islamophobia,
Islamophobic
campaigns.
They they they finance them.
So why do you let them have the
wealth?
No.
The message here, I'm not saying that we
should no.
You should
work
halal job,
halal source.
Now pay the dues.
After that,
may Allah bless your wealth.
Why not?
In 15 minutes, I still have,
and that's the essence of the lecture,
Four steps
to be grateful
for any bounty that you have.
Four steps.
And again, brothers and sisters in Islam,
if you're unable
to recognize Allah's bounty upon you,
I'm sorry.
This is the first failure.
But look at the standard.
Look at the standard.
If you wake up in the morning, healthy.
Secure.
The police is not after you.
Authorities are not after you.
Secure.
Feeling security.
And you have the provision
of one day,
one day,
you are
a king of the world.
That's the standard.
Look at an average Muslim now.
Just do look at the fridge. Look at
that
thing next to the fridge.
The mansion things.
Biscuits,
candy.
When you ask him,
man, life is really
Over a month or 2, all what you
find in his house is what?
What are?
Water and deeds.
When you read this hadith,
he would ask for there is a word
like hadith, for example.
Do you have something to eat? No?
No?
Okay.
Inshallah, I'll fast today.
Did did you come across a hadith?
Because there is no food.
But that's the standard.
Don't don't begin with,
listen.
If you begin if you begin with comparing
yourself with John and Patricia
and Elizabeth
who's Elizabeth?
That's an issue.
Compare yourself
with a Muslim.
What about comparing ourselves to the people of
Gaza
Right now,
they are starving.
No food.
Starving to death,
children.
That's where you should begin with.
Here is the 4 pieces
of
gratitude.
Number 1,
you
must believe
in your heart
without any shadow of doubt
that whatever you have is from Allah.
If you don't have that foundation, and that's
why I started with that,
then you have an issue.
Then you will never fulfill the rest of
it.
Look at this.
In in Arabic in that context.
Anything that you may call nama is from
Allah.
From Allah.
If you do not believe that, if you
will listen.
Allah guided you.
Allah giving you the resources.
So that's the first step.
The second step,
the gratitude
of the tongue.
Talk about it.
But, again, be careful who you talk about
it to.
Don't talk it about it to someone who
is envious.
Also, don't talk about it in a boastful
manner.
Oh, I'm I'm rich.
I have a million. No. No. No. No.
No. How do you talk about it?
Still remember this. You know, I'm I come
from
from a farm area. My family are farmers.
The highest,
most advanced form of transportation
in my village is
donkey,
donkey Enterprises.
You ride a donkey.
When I went to America,
we have an issue already in in in
the
Muslim world
about America thing. You know? Oh, America. You
know? It's American
thing.
See that inferiority,
psychological
defeat.
So when I went down,
you know, to
visit my family,
I decide to rent a car.
So I went to with the car to
my village.
Was fitna for the people?
Fitna?
What is this?
America.
They become more worshipers of America.
No. You're supposed to talk about it to
direct the people to the source.
If you really wanna see the illustration of
this,
The 2 inmates
who ended up in jail with Yusuf,
who saw the dreams,
One of them saw that he's carrying a
basket of bread.
Birds
were snatching it,
and the other one saw himself squeezing the
grapes and making drinks.
So here they are in jail
for these criminals,
and they saw these two dreams,
they spotted this nice,
humble,
peaceful
man.
You
they're different.
You're a good person.
Look at this.
Not only that.
I'm not just gonna tell you the interpretation
of the dream. By the way, I can
tell you the food before
it comes. But this is not me.
You can be like me.
This is what my lord has taught me.
Now
if you want to be like me,
what should you do?
Don't worship me.
Worship who?
The source.
That is why
one of the best means of methods of
dawah with your Muslim brother.
Hey. How how's it going? How are you
doing? Oh, man. It's
a blessing.
Oh, man. Allah is like, they cannot
man. It's like a lie. I can't think
a lie enough.
That's
that's the spirit of a believer.
Oh, man. Life is like I just got
fired. Just
I don't know if I'm gonna get another
job or not, man. It's like so.
Oh,
so talking about it to spread that spirit.
So this is number 2. We still have
7 minutes.
Number 3,
you should not use that bounty
in disobeying Allah.
Allah gives you wealth, money.
So use the
money to disobey Allah.
In America, we did a stats that the
highest
numbers
of people who own liquor stores in America
are Muslims.
Muslims.
So you go and sell liquor.
You trade
in something that is Allah meet haram.
Either
When they made
I
don't know if you're familiar with marijuana. Are
you guys familiar with marijuana?
No? Okay.
They're not.
When they made it lawful,
so they had to come up with these,
dispensaries or, I don't know what they call
them.
They call them green solutions.
Green solutions.
Muslims were chasing it.
And they call you.
It's haram.
He wouldn't accept that from you. He would
go around and shop for
to use
the money.
Use your skills. You're on IT. You go
and do some software that can
spread wickedness
and
you're a strong built. You go and beat
Muslims, beat people
instead of employing that health.
So you got you cannot
is not is being ungrateful
when you use
go ahead.
I think we're we're we're done.
So the first step,
with the heart that you believe this bounty
from Allah,
direct people to the source.
You can be like
me, but just
ask him to give it to you.
Use it
for for your.
Do not use it
in places where
you oppose the Sharia, you oppose the deen.
And finally,
Allah
legislated
certain
amount that has to be given out.
The zakat will melt, demand the Tory zakah
on
this wealth.