Morad Awad – Are You Strange
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The speakers discuss the importance of Islam and the process of unity in achieving their goals. They ask everyone to join in a food drive and a food drive non perishable goods. They also mention a program for children called the Sierra intensive. They discuss the importance of joining in a food drive and a social event. They mention a program for children called the Sierra intensive. They also mention a food drive non perishable goods and a social event. They ask everyone to bring their productive thoughts and strangers in this strange world. They ask everyone to bring their productive thoughts and strangers in this strange world. They ask everyone to join in a food drive and a food drive non perishable goods and a social event. They also mention a program for children called the Sierra intensive. They discuss the importance of joining in a food drive and a social event. They mention a program for children called the Sierra intensive. They also mention a food drive non perishable goods and a social event. They
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Allah, Allah, Allah Qin for now,
for my God, we start by praising Allah subhanho wa Taala
and sending our Peace and blessings to our noble Prophet
Muhammad Allah is salatu salam.
And I remind myself and yourselves on this blessed day of Yama Jumar,
this joyous day of Yama Juma to fear Allah as the messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on this day would stand on his
pulpit, and he would recite these verses and he would remind the
believers to fear Allah. Allah subhanho wa Taala said in the
Noble Quran, after I will be learning the shaytaan rajim
Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim. Yah you Hala Dina Kola haka, Ducati.
What attr Morton Illa to Muslim on all you who believe fear Allah
By the way, he should be feared and do not die except in the state
of submission to Him. We ask Allah to die in the state of Islam and
in the state of Eman and to preserve our faith in the faith of
our progeny. I mean, you're behind me and
brothers and sisters.
Brother
goes to school
on his first day of school,
first day of university first day of college,
the class happened to be a long class.
They didn't pray yet.
But they know they sat in class.
Their Salah would be missed.
And they would have to make it up. And they do not want to miss their
Salah because they prioritize it over everything.
They asked their teacher if they can step out and pray their salon.
But they feel a little bit
strange doing so? Because no one asks things like this, especially
in that particular class says, Oh, can I go pray? Please, pray? Can't
you just pray later?
feel strange.
A sister, who everyone knows decides to wear her hijab goes to
school the first day everyone's giving her strange looks.
Why do you dress like that? Do you have to do this everyday now?
strange, very strange.
You get a new job. Your colleagues meet their monthly quota. You
achieve your goal for that week or that month. And the manager wants
to treat everyone and says hey, let's go meet up and have some
drinks and enjoy our time or have a party or something. You ask for
permission not to go telling them. I know that you're going to do
this
and whatnot but I'm a Muslim and I can't partake in these types of
gatherings that have alcohol and so on.
Strange
Strange is the way Rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
described
Eman at the end of times.
There are also some Allahu alayhi wa sallam said in a hadith that is
authentic. But a dino hurry been wasa Oh, do hurry been camera for
two ballyhoura
The messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that the deen began
strange.
And it will return to being strange again after the people
were fond with it. For tuba little murabaha give glad tidings to
those who are strangers.
Wallahi indeed it is so strange. And we are only expecting to be
stranger and stranger and our ideologies in our beliefs. And our
foundational and core principles are only going to be stranger and
stranger in societies that were plagued with modern day secular
liberalism, and so on so forth. Its tentacles reached every single
religion out there, but the last standing faith that hasn't been
secularized is this faith of Islam.
This DN
is the DN that is preserved
and will continue to be preserved.
As Allah subhanaw taala promised us in the Quran, he said in nanana
Zelma Decra we're in Lola Have you learned indeed We have revealed
the remembrance and we have given you the remembrance and indeed it
is us that will preserve it.
So this Deen will be preserved. The ICRC is Obito Lisa Lille with
the honor or dishonor, with the dignity or lack thereof, whoever
and whatever situation this dean will continue, and the strangers
will only feel even more and more strange.
Brothers and sisters
being strange is not something
that is
frowned upon. But this feeling that
a person is strange, or their ability to,
to persevere in an environment where they feel outcasted or
strange
relies
on one thing, one main thing and that's it.
One characteristic or quality that exists in that person is what will
define whether they will persevere and stay steadfast upon their
principles upon their faith upon their Deen upon their morals, from
those who will lose them.
And that one thing is priority.
Whoever gives Allah subhanho wa Taala and the following of His
Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam their first priority, they
will never sway away, they will never whether despite what happens
to them, despite the context they're in, despite who they
associate with, what school they go to, who they work with, or what
what they read, if they keep Allah subhanho wa Taala as number one,
they will always be steadfast. But the problem is brothers and
sisters,
is that
today, we find
people making their jobs. Number one, so if a person makes their
job, number one,
the moment
if that number one is their purpose. That's what they live
for. When they wake up, they're thinking of their job. When they
go to sleep, they're thinking of their job, when they breathe and
talk, they're thinking of their job, it's family time to talking
about their job, it's It's vacation, talking about their job,
they dream, they even dream about the job. Everything is about this
job. SubhanAllah. The moment this person loses the job, or is
incapable of doing this job, what happens?
They lose their compass goes crazy.
They're all over the place.
They become sad, they fall into grief, perhaps even depression,
because of what because they lost their sense of purpose. They lived
at one point for this job. When a person lives for another person.
It could be a relative, someone that's close. Everything I do is
for this person. This one person is my everything. It could be a
spouse, it could be a sibling, it could be a friend, whatever it is.
They live for this one person, the moment this person dies, what
happens
they're in a slump that they cannot recover from.
Someone lives to build their muscles. They want to be the
biggest person in the gym. They want to be a bodybuilder that
generations after they say his story. And they they write books
about the legacy that this bodybuilder left they live for
their muscle, they want to build it the moment they break something
or muscle tears, or they're not capable of working go anymore due
to some sickness or whatever. What happens to that person. That's
where they get depressed. That's where they develop, you know, they
just live a sad life. And then those people start to accuse Allah
Subhana Allah to Allah. Why, why did you do this to me? It's as if
Allah is a hinderance between them and what they prioritized over
Allah subhanaw taala.
How can a person be steadfast on their faith when their faith is
but a mere hinderance between them and fulfilling their number one
goal and objective their priority in life
when a person's priority is to achieve
higher education,
and then they're told okay, you know, you have you have to pray
Juma brother, you you have to leave your class. I know you can't
miss Juma continuously, that's not something that our Muslim should
be doing.
Or when they see that the salah time is very short. Maghrib time
is very short, but they have
have to finish their workout. And they're not willing to leave their
workout to pray, because the workout comes first, they'll break
anything, but they will never break their workout, or their
diet, or this relationship with this person.
The religion becomes a burden.
It becomes heavy on the back, heavy on the chest because it is
but an obstacle in the path of achieving that priority. So
brothers and sisters,
we need to make Allah subhanho wa Taala our priority because by
making Allah Our priority,
we'll be restoring something
that Allah subhanho wa Taala placed in us that gave us a status
over many of his creation, initially.
And it wasn't any of these desires that we could aspire for. Allah
subhanaw taala when He created Adam Alayhis Salam, he was but a
mere body.
He was just the body, biologically. He was intact,
everything was there. But there was no soul.
The angels did not prostrate or we're not we're not commanded to
prostrate for Adam, when he was just a body.
But when Allah subhanho wa Taala blew the soul into him.
And Adam Alayhis Salam came to life, what happened?
He was worthy of the status.
He was giving the status with the soul with the Lord, because it is
what he needs to connect with Allah subhanho wa taala. To
understand His purpose, this through brothers and sisters, is
something that we really need to think deep about.
We always need to look at the world from the perspective of our
soul, our rule, and what is feeding it, and is it fulfilling
its purpose because when Allah He,
when we live,
for a purpose that Allah created us to live for.
This is an organic relationship, a person can accept
whatever happens to them,
any situation that occurs in their life is something that they can
weather through, and they can push through, but the moment they live
for a purpose, other than the purpose Allah created them to live
for, they will break
in front of that thing. The moment they lose it.
The moment that thing is gone, they live for their desires. The
moment their body is incapable of having this desire. That's it,
they lose everything.
They live, to have fun the moment they're incapable of having fun,
they lose everything
they live for, to be seen.
I see a brother he tells me, Oh, well, I gotta look good. Gotta be
fit. Why?
Because Allah loves the strong Muslim all because the girls are
looking at me.
That's not that's not a reason brothers.
As a matter of fact, well, I read a very, very wise response by a
man Subhanallah who Allah Ekrem a man a gentleman. He was wealthy.
He was he was famous.
He was religious. He was handsome.
They asked him,
they told him, you know, a lot of the sisters are attracted to you.
What do you have to say?
He said, All I care is about for women. And that's it. Everything
else is extra. I care about my mom's pleasure of me. I care about
my wife's love for me. I care about my sisters trust for me. And
I care about my daughter's praise or my daughter's respect of me.
If I have those things, then I have everything I need from from
women in this world.
Subhan Allah.
There's only this is an answer. Only a man can answer. Only
someone who understood their purpose Subhan Allah
Brothers and sisters when when we orient ourselves to Allah subhana
wa Tala
that and only that is what will get us to true success in this
dunya and give us true happiness in our heart. We ask Allah
subhanaw taala to bless us with true happiness. We ask Allah
subhanaw taala to raise our ranks, we ask Allah subhana wa Taala to
forgive us for all our sins, according Massa Maxim, what
started Allah He welcome for staff who in
hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Ashraf al Anbiya,
it will mousseline see deny Muhammad wa ala early he will not
be a Gemini in
the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
he told us of three men
that will be the first to enter the hellfire.
And when we think of the torment and torture and wretchedness of
the Hellfire, we often associate a certain type of person to that
punishment. But the reality is completely different from what we
imagined. And that also sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wanted to fix
our imagination or what we think of the Hellfire. He said Alayhi
Salatu was Salam.
The first
the hellfire, the first to the throne in the Hellfire will be
number one, a scholar who will come to Allah subhanaw taala. And
then they would say, Allah will ask him
or her, what did you do? And they would say we studied knowledge,
and we spread it to the people for your sake. Allah subhana wa Taala
would tell him kept, you are a liar. And the angels would say you
are a liar contempt.
But you said it. You learned what you learned. And you did what you
did only so people can say what they already said. And you got and
received what you wanted
to remove and not throw him in the hellfire. So Allah and I feel
the second is someone who would give from their wealth. And the
same thing would be said, Why did you get from your wealth? Oh,
because I wanted to feed the poor. I wanted to do partaken good
causes no. But you wanted people to say he gives so much she gives
so much so generous, Masha, Allah,
you got that and people said what you wanted to say? You wanted them
to say throw them into the hellfire. And the third is someone
who died
in the path of Allah.
Everyone
perceived it to be so until the Day of Judgment, where Allah would
ask him what did you do? He said, I fought for your sake and I died
and I was killed for your sake era. And Allah said, No, you
fought for people to speak about you and to say that you are brave,
kept moving now throw him in the fire.
These three people
are the first the Hellfire wood burn from amongst humanity, nuts,
Allah, Allah, Allah feels Salomon.
Brothers and sisters, we need to
correct our intentions
and know why we are in this dunya and what our ultimate purpose is.
Because if we don't
we fall into what these three people who are thrown in the
Hellfire fell into.
If they understood, truly that Allah is the only one that can
reward them, they would have done it for Allah, but they wanted
something from this dunya and there was a priority over Allah
for these people. Their status was a priority. What people say was a
priority.
The moment we make our priority, what people say over Allah, that's
when we lose. That's when the compass is skewed. And that's how
we know we're on the brink of ultimate loss. And I'll end with a
hadith brothers and sisters that are so sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
Salah Allah Rasool
he said, mankind duniya
Akbar Oh homie.
Man connoted dunya Akbar Muhammad whoever
or makes the dunya the biggest of their concerns. The biggest
concern to them the dunya this world that we live in, is our
biggest concern but also Salam is saying for the person that makes
the dunya The biggest concern
for rock Allah who Allah Insha Allah, Allah will disperse their
affairs.
What Yeah, Allah Allahu phokeethra Who Bay nine a and Allah will make
their poverty between their eyes, meaning every situation they are
in, they will be in the state of poverty, whether they have
millions and millions, they have a big house, they have a nice car,
they have amazing children, they have this they're always going to
see with the lens of the fucker with the lens of poverty that
Allah put on their eyes. What is this lens that Allah puts Jol?
Allah Who fuck Rabine this lens is something that will always see the
negative side of things.
They have a big house they say oh, it's not as big as this person who
has the same amount of money I
you have an amazing car, Mashallah. Yeah, but it's not the
trim that I wanted. I had to settle for this one. It's
depressing looking at you know, like Subhanallah you know, my
Corolla looks amazing. You know, I'm so happy with that. Hola.
Hola, como. So the person that has the fucker, the poverty in their
eyes will see everything as poverty for them.
When I'm yet to hear me now, Illa makuti Bella homina, and they will
only receive from it what Allah wrote for them from it. That's it.
They won't get any more than what was pre written for them before
they were even born.
And then Allah then the Prophet sallallahu wasallam says woman,
Jalla Hirata Akbar, and whoever makes the hereafter their biggest
concern,
meaning what priority right makes it their priority. And another
narration he said Nieto who makes their intention the
right Gemma Allahu Allah Insha Allah, the first thing Allah will
gather around them everything they need from this dunya they're not
going to know things. Pieces are just going to fall together. And
they're gonna make it through Alhamdulillah they're not
stressing it, it's just gonna come together from Allah subhanaw taala
Gemma Allahu Allah He Shimla.
Well, it's a two dunya we're here, Arima. And the dunya will come to
them.
By force.
They're trying. They're not trying, they're focused on the
camera, man, I need to get to my salah.
I can't do this business. Then, on the way to Salah go, somebody
calls you pass Subhan Allah, Allah brought me the customer how this
customer even come, I don't even know. I just left the store.
I told my job, I have to take off, you know, about five, six hours a
month because I need to go pray or I need I have this I have job I
whatnot. But then Subhanallah the baraka Allah put your productive,
you're one of the more productive employees. You're doing more than
what others are doing. Who put this, whatever Allah wrote, is
what will come. And Allah will gather the affairs of this
believer who makes Allah their priority and the dunya will come
to them by force, the status that Allah wrote for you, you're going
to attain it by making Allah your priority brothers and sisters. So
let us put Allah as number one, let us not care what people say
about us. And let us be proud of the strangers that the messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gave Glad Tidings to, and may Allah
unite us with Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and all the
believers who are strangers in this strange world indeed, to
gather us with Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam upon the pond of
Alcocer and allow us to drink from his blessed hand I know his Salatu
was Salam, a drink that will make us not feel thirst for eternity.
We ask Allah subhana wa taala. To keep a steadfast upon the truth.
We ask Allah subhanaw taala to preserve our Eman the man of our
spouses, the man of our progeny and our children until the Day of
Judgment, we ask Allah to unite us with our parents and our
grandparents and great grandparents and all of our
families together in general for a dose to allow us to get into the
status of Jannah that the best one amongst us attained. We ask Allah
subhanaw taala to forgive us and have mercy on us. I love Allah and
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Salam aleikum Abdullah Inshallah, just a couple of quick
announcements insha Allah
to tonight we have an important announcement regarding youth and
that that'll be a program for kids third to eighth grade. So do
inshallah come to Azure. But we will announce it on our socials as
well and send an email about it as well in Sharla Tiana tomorrow, or
actually no today, today from answer until motive, or actually
answered until Aisha we have a food drive non perishable goods
like rice, canned foods and whatnot. If you want to donate,
we're gonna have a truck in the front. You can buy whatever you
want and sha Allah, whatever you can and come drop it off. We're
gonna pack it up, and we're gonna send it in sha Allah for donations
with Elijah.
That's about it. We also have our sisters program tonight. FNL so
for high school high school and above inshallah the sisters gonna
come out and for the brothers as well. We have we have we have our
normal talk in the gym. We missed it last week, but we're gonna do
it. shall try to do it this week. Midnight. Tyler's like Monica.
Santa Monica. Yeah, Tonight Tonight Show. Yeah.
Also, for I forget, if you didn't register for the miftah Institute,
Sierra intensive, they're gonna come here and do a four day Sierra
intensive with the Abdullah warhead. And our only I'm gonna do
I'm sure they're gonna, they're gonna be there. So several
speakers inshallah it's a seed intensive, do register for it, we
did put it in the email. So look at the newsletter. If you don't
receive emails from Epic, then sign up in Shala on the website so
that you can receive emails and registered, the seats are limited,
and it's going to be very, very nice and inspiring. The Sierra is
a life changing program. So please, if you're looking for that
thing, to change your life to learn, get some knowledge that you
never knew. This is the time to do it. So John, it's the end of this
month. So you know we only have like a week to register does not
come on. Let's go to Santa Monica.