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My dear brothers and sisters, Today is the second day

of the year 1439 of the hit of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.

May Allah is peace and blessings be upon him. This occasion comes around and it's a great reminder. Now I know some some of us want to celebrate.

But and others say you know, there's nothing to celebrate, we're really going through a lot of turmoils as an oma division, loss, suffering, you know,

but

we should really ponder and reflect upon this occasion.

And just a quick, short, very, you know, very short summarized history lesson. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is down from the day he received from the day and loss of how to what to Allah said, sent to him ikura read

until the year or the day the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam chose to be with a law he said Bella raffia and Allah, I rather be with the highest of companions,

23 years

prior to that the prophets I said I was doing soul searching, or he was looking for meaning and answer and of course he knew who created them and loss of habitat and he was praying to Allah azza wa jal.

And then finally he had a vision. And Allah Subhana Allah sent him the vision and the loss of Hamlet to Allah made him realize who he is and he told him you're the Messenger of God and he Allah subhanaw taala sent him recite read

and for maybe a couple of weeks a process of selling was processing that and sharing that with the closest members of his of his circle.

And until a loss of Hamlet and then finally a lot so just sent him within that period of time sent him Yeah, you had more depth there. So a lot of set them up cannot read and then Allah Subhana Allah said to me, You have more depth there are one who's covered invalid enveloped his in his own government. homefinder get up and warned. And ever since that day, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam never sat down, metaphorically speaking, he physically sat down but the process of them in terms of his, his, his his, he assumed this mission, and this task and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did not sit Not only did he not sit or relax or the President did that, but nothing for an

extended period. Tao was always on his mind. His mission was always on his mind. He never forgotten who he is. He did not give up he did not

forget who he is. Once once he realized who he was. So Allahu alayhi wa sallam, but not only that, but the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam whenever he finished any task, what is Allah Subhana Allah say in the Quran, VEDA, ferrata Phuntsok

get up continue

To pray,

continue to refuel spiritually spiritually. So the Prophet salallahu alaihe salam was determined, and he did some a lot, even Salah

reach every household in Mecca, some accepted and many rejected and in the province of allies and had to go beyond the city of Mecca because his message is universal. It's not only for Quraysh Islam is not only for one tribe, or one clan, or one race or one ethnicity.

Right, for those of us who think, you know, it just belongs to me and my group or people who look like me or sound like me. It's a universal message it has to reach. If you're done with your people with your surrounding, then you need to go beyond that.

So the Prophet sallallahu Sallam goes to the city of five, and it didn't work out there. So the prophet SAW the law, he said now is is sharing the message with whoever MCE was was was was Mecca.

Everybody comes to Mecca. So the Prophet sallallahu Sallam is going out meeting people from different tribes, presenting the message to them.

Finally, the people of your trip, seize the opportunity.

Very smart, very intelligent visionaries. 12 of them made a decision that will that not only did it alter or change their lives, but the lives of their children, and the future of their city and the world.

And Allah subhanaw taala gave him the honor. That is the Legacy The legacy of the 12 nakaba rhodiola, Anwar

and they accepted the message and then the following year they come and the number is quadrupled.

And then the rest is history as they say. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is now ready to move on beyond the city of Mecca. Now the capital is Medina or yesterday, and it became Medina once the Prophet sallallahu Sallam arrived.

And the Prophet sallallahu Sallam makes that extraordinary journey. One of the greatest events in our history, it should be dissected, it should be taught, it should be analyzed, it should be studied.

It should be it should be pondered upon extraordinary journey that the promise of the law is made. And I'm not only talking about the details, the details are amazing. I'm talking about the whole concept.

And the process, Adam had to give up his birthplace, Mecca, the most sacred of all cities. He had to give up that give up the property

separate from many family members, but he had to move on, because Darwinism, Islamism, the future of humanity is at risk. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam moves on to the city of Medina, along with a worker, and on during the journey, it's just amazing lessons that you can read about the Prophet sallallahu Sallam reaches Medina. Now, years later, during the time of the second halifa, Rama, Rama and up until that point, Muslims did not have a calendar. They used to use various events and will feel the year of the elephant

right.

Ramada

you know the year of better this that if different.

But now with the expansion of the state and this evolution and then that and the Muslim state going into the second

to the next level and becoming

a great civilization. We need a calendar. So they are mortal. The olana summon the companions like the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught him and Abu Bakar before that, and the rest of the Sahaba were about Coronavirus, man and he they all did this consulted their constituents

and asked for opinion. They didn't say Oh, I know better. My vision is better than anyone's vision. Just follow whatever I say if you don't then

this wasn't prophetic. The Messenger of Allah who had an open line of communication with the heaven, who, whom if he wanted to consult, he could have just said Julian, what do you think? But no, he used to engage his companions, his constituents, his companions, the members of the community, those because it's their lives, their future, their fate? They need to be involved. They need to know why

you need their buy in so the so one of the olana brings us a habit. What do you think of, you know, different ideas come the Roman calendar, the Persian calendar, and they're discussing it? And then they said no, how about something from our own history? How about the birth of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, or the death of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam or when the prophet SAW said and first received the message, the year the

different ideas? Then finally, somebody suggests How about the hedgerows?

The Prophet salallahu alaihe salam says hijra, that is the event where Allah Subhana Allah have consulted were separated. That's the event. That was the greatest turning point. So and that is the beginning of a Muslim community. That's when we finally had our own church territory and our own message and our own place in our own entity. Yes, let that be the beginning of the Islamic calendar.

And then they have to begin from the month of Muharram. And again, the the, the lunar year did not have a particular month with which it begins. You know, they they also debated that, should we start with Ramadan?

Should we start with it'll be Oh, was it with with, and then they chose Haram, because it comes right after Hajj.

Right, right after Hajj

and a loss of habitats during harsh data, loss of habitat anioma, committed to lacantina, from the completion of your of your day. So they chose el moharram, the sacred amount of Allah Subhana Allah to Allah to be the beginning of the here. This is the history of this. So every time this month comes, right, it's a reminder of what took place in that amazing first year during that amazing journey. And there are a lot of lessons to be learned here. But if I may real quick, you know, experts say that there are eight essential elements for success. If you want to be successful in anything you do. Your studies, your work your career, anything, there are eight essential

elements, vision.

Vision is not enough, though. Action number two, number three, passion. Number four, discipline, number five, determination because all of these things are not enough if you're not willing to endure and get through the challenges because life is not is going to challenge you. So even if even if you want to succeed in life, right? determination.

Next, so we said vision, action, passion, discipline, determination, and you need support, you need people to support you and the Prophet sallallahu Sallam obviously, teaches us that and he has the support of Allah azza wa jal, and then you need to have

character, integrity, and humility. I'll leave the last two because the prophesizing had the best of character. I just want to comment on the first six. The vision was set by Allah subhanho wa Taala, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was clear as to what the vision is.

From the day Allah said to him, Cora, bismi, Arabic Allah, Allah says, In the Name of your Lord, hold on to that brothers and sisters, those of us who get confused, one of the reasons we get confused and what and one of the one of the painful realities of our time people lose their faith and they lose their image, they lose focus because they're not reading the name of their Lord.

Read in the name of your Lord, when you read, read in the name of your Lord ponder, reflect, look through the eyes

of someone who is guided by divine message, if you give up that, that if you're not looking through, if you're not analyzing everything around you reading everything, through the eyes of someone that believes in a law, the Almighty

believes in the ultimate absolute truth, Allah Subhana Allah in His existence, if you're not certain about that, of course, you're going to be confused. Of course, you're going to get lost a lot. So Jen says, and it doesn't stop there. That vision has to lead you to after Allah azza wa jal says, For men cannot

be asked for the one who believes in the meaning of his Lord. So you know, you have a God that created you and created you for a lofty purpose for a reason.

And you know that you're going to go back to him.

If that's not part of your vision, as a Muslim, you're going to get lost.

Number two, action. There our religion if there is if there is any religion in the world that is based upon and founded upon action is Islam.

As I said, I was sent to the province of Santa Clara. Soon after that said, confirm there get up and worn and soon after that Allah subhanaw taala says, to the Prophet,

fader for avatar fansub in Arabic and simulation of action.

So and the prophet SAW Allah is an individual, that's what he did.

That's what he did.

He took action Salalah and he will send them the idea of passivity

and inaction

inaction is not an option, not for a Muslim. Now for someone who has a universal mission,

the world needs us or needs what we have. So we either take it, practice it, and act upon it, or a law somehow replaces bring someone else that is willing to do that. Number three, passion.

Right? The prophet SAW Selim loved this message of his Salalah ism, he had passion for it. The Prophet said the last time was not looking for dunya, you know, he could have thought to himself, you know, wait a minute, Porsche offered me the opportunity to take over, take over rule them. And maybe I can change things gradually. But it was at the expense of giving up the message in the beginning or the essence of the message, give up the essence of the message, and the promises and refuse I can't make that kind of kind of compromise.

And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he said to his uncle, I will not abandon this. Oh, they're asking for one word. They're just asking for one simple change. But that is the essence of the message, I can change it.

Not only that, not only can the prophecies have not changed the essence of the message, the prophets could not change one word. One is

not going to do that. They can't make that compromise. It's not even a compromise.

Right? He had to deliver Ben live mouse in a camera, Robbie.

salata deliver what was sent to you from your Lord, and if you don't, if you fail, even in delivering one idea, then you have not fulfilled your mission. So the prophet SAW Selim said to his ankle, uncle, at some point, he said, Uncle, I will not I will not stop this hat that I thought that I had his salifu he said, even if that leads to this neck being severed.

I'm going to go with this all the way. Right, passion, and the discipline the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam could not be more apparent than the hatred of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, the planning the execution of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he did everything possible. Everything within his capacity sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam determination.

If you're not determined, if you're not willing to go through anything, to reach your goal, if you're not willing to sacrifice, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was willing to give up Mecca, Mecca, family, in order for it for him to fulfill the mission.

So this is a great and very powerful lesson for all of us, those of us who want who we're working with Islam, as long as things are very convenient, and things are working out for us. And we're Islam is like, you know, we're comfortable and we're gaining. Yeah, but the minute we're told that you may have to sacrifice or experience some kind of discomfort or get out of your comfort zone or, or suffer or give up something.

It won't work like that. It will not work. I can tell you that. It won't work sooner or later. And if you lose it, then you lose everything.

Mecca, the prophet SAW Selim that that that little conversation he had with Mecca, is telling of the emotional state he was in some low and he was selling, if it wasn't that your people forced me out of you, I would have not left.

But he had to.

Right. So you have to be willing to sacrifice and give up. And then finally support in Allah subhanho wa Taala is the source the ultimate source of support Subhana what Allah and Allah says, In the Quran

and I want you to just to remember this for those of us who whenever we go through any hardship or difficulty, and again, look at the order. You have to be willing to sacrifice and then waits with great with hope for relief and victory from Allah subhanaw taala and Allah azza wa jal will surely send you victory.

If you fulfill what I said, you know, the elements that we mentioned, a law will surely give you victory. And the victory for the believer is in one of two, one of two things.

One, or both victory in this life, you succeed in your mission.

you fulfill your destiny, or your with a loss of Hannah with Allah in a better place.

So

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to kill the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, they came up with a with a very clear, they surrounded his house he was besieged, but Allah subhanaw taala told him that you will be victorious. So what does the Prophet Allah

Listen and do is determined, and he knows that a law will support him. He walks right through

that circle of people who are standing there, the promises and plans and he executes and he sacrifices and he's determined, and he's in the cave. What happens price tracks him, they come all the way to the cave where there's a loss of habitat for the second time a loss of habitat, it blinds them, and they can't see him. abubaker was super nervous.

And there is no doubt that it was abubaker with him because the loss of habitat recorded that in the Quran Yasuda live at one of them was to look down, they will see us and if you go to, if that is indeed the actual cave, if you go to that cave, right now in Mecca, you will see that no matter where you stand around that cave, you will see you will be able to see everything inside of it. But they will not be able they were not able to see him or see a Buddha. And the Prophet the prophet SAW Selim responded to a worker by saying Yeah, but come on, okay.

What do you think is with us in a lot of cores that in the Quran for us? For those of us who might doubt you know, the story in the CNR books, right, it's in the Quran to be recited until the end of time. electone sufa nassarawa Allah law, if you do not give him victory and support him, or Muslims, he doesn't really need you because Allah Subhana Allah has already there is already the record of how Allah subhanaw taala can give him victory. Allah has already given him victory. So Cardinal sorrow hula is Raja Valentina katha, Ruth Aeneas naygn, when those who disbelieve drove him

along with his companion in the home, I feel hardy in the airport, only Asahi Hina. Zen.

He said to his companion, don't worry, don't worry, don't believe in Allah. Allah Allah, Allah is with us. Very similar to what Moses said. When Pharaoh caught up with him, Allah Subhana Allah taught the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the story of the previous prophets for him

to to embody that sallallahu wasallam when Moses parlez haba Masai Mara Koon were taken, what did Moses say Kela in America beside him, just like Allah subhanaw taala saved Abraham, just like Allah subhanaw taala saved Jesus, just like Allah subhanho wa Taala saved, nor is the fulfillment of a loss promising and for those of us who are not familiar with the promises of the Quran, Allah says in Surah Solana, we're living in an inherited dounia formula shed indeed we give victory to our messengers. And some people might say yeah, of course we believe in victory to the messengers, but us and allies are just as well. levena Amano and those who believe and follow their path and are

willing to follow their path no matter what it takes. And someone might say of course Allah will give us victory but that's an actor I know a lot of us have inherited dunia in this life. We all may have Pomona shot and on the Day of Resurrection.

So we have to maintain hope and we shall we should be willing to sacrifice.

And we should maintain our vision and ask for a loss of hands data support Apollo has told us so for lalibela confessor.

Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala De La Nina Safa.

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between Myanmar and

Bangladesh, their oranges

or the Burmese Muslims, as I came to know them 40 years ago, right? And by the way, this this

this tragic story of the hinges goes back decades, those of us who think it was just for you know, no.

Right? I remember as a young boy, you know, going to their, their the refugee camps

and where I grew up, right, to help this story is old,

chopping off heads and killing children and all that this is all

and it's very unfortunate, that if this if this was happening to any other religious group, if they were not Muslim, this would have would have not gone been going for the for this long. For sure. I have no doubt about that. But unfortunately, they know, they know that the world is not going to care.

Right? They can do whatever and they know that the Muslims are divided

and that most regimes don't don't care. Well I held our luck with a level

sooner or later Allah subhanho wa Taala

will

bring justice to them.

Or to those who are perpetrating or committing these atrocities in the meanwhile, while they're going through their tests, we have our test, what are we going to do? There was an opportunity, some of us who went and attended the event, we have not fully recovered. And we should not recover, to be honest with you. Right? If you if you want my honest for those who were there at the event last week and hurt or so so, you know, you know, some of us go like, Oh, I don't want to watch these things. I don't want to know about it, maybe we shouldn't recover. Maybe there is a reason why everything is recorded now in digital format, and it's not going anywhere. So for those of us who have been

pretending like these things are not happening. Maybe it's just a wake up call for all of us to stay engaged and to realize that there is there there are causes greater than our own little, you know, concerns and something bigger than us, that we should be part of one of the shoe that went there from South Africa was was was telling us that he's been to many refugee camps.

various people,

him and his volunteers when they went back to their home country, they had for the first time they had to get

counseling, and therapy for for the psychological and emotional trauma. As helpers they say that we They said, We have not seen anything like this. Nothing like this.

These are refugees. We're not even talking about people who are inside Myanmar. We're talking about people who made it outside the Myanmar people who are outside, what they're what they have told them, that their conditions, their current conditions are horrific. So Upon hearing this, last week, I made I made a pledge on behalf of my community on on your behalf. And I'm going to show it to other fulfill this by the help of Allah azza wa jal and with your help be there, no matter what it takes, how long it takes me to show, so I pledged on your behalf $20,000 inshallah, on behalf of, of this congregation of this community, so inshallah, after the Salah, please join me and the rest of

us, those of us so I will see shala is writing or is in the process of writing a check to Islamic Relief for for to deliver aid to the refugees who made it, who are right now currently and

in some of these safe zones insha Allah azza wa jal so they're there they're doing their work, they're reaching out to them inshallah, all we have to do while we're sitting here is just write a check or put some cash in an envelope and dedicated for them. Balan Allah azzawajal. So perhaps this can be something that we can do in addition to that, so. So in addition to that, we should be able to, to help in any capacity, may Allah Subhana Allah accept any of our contributions, and May Allah subhanaw taala forgive our sins and rectify our affairs, and may this be a blessing to hear for all of you. May Allah peace and blessings be upon the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam the members of

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