Morad Awad – Are You Strange

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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I'm sure they're gonna, they're gonna be there. So several

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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.