Zamboanga,Philippines
Mufti Menk – The Eternal Abode
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The importance of reading the Quran and not being harassed by media is emphasized in Islam, including the need for individuals to avoid harming their health and relationships. The importance of forgiveness and staying true to promises is also emphasized. The speaker emphasizes the need for people to be more aware of their actions and find a reward for their actions. The speaker also discusses the importance of peace and good things in the world, including peace for everyone and finding a reward for serving elderly people. The potential for conflict is also highlighted.
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Salam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatu
Smilla he will Hamdulillah he was Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah he was early he was here Jemaine in this world, there are certain things that we want to achieve, but we are unable to achieve, is that right?
I want to do something, I want to achieve something, I want to meet someone, perhaps I want to buy something, I want to go somewhere, I want to marry someone I want to whatever it might be, and we cannot achieve everything that we want, is that correct?
So Allah Almighty has promised you that in this world, it is impossible for you to get whatever you want. But if you do certain things and you behave in a certain way, then you will be able to get every single thing that crosses your mind. And anything that is in your heart, and anything that you desire shall be yours at a certain time. And that time is when you go back to Allah. If you ask yourself, Where did you come from? The answer is I came from Allah. Allah is the one who put me on to the earth. None of us is on earth, because of a choice of our own. But rather we are on earth because Allah chose that we will be on earth. Why are you here? Are you here? Because you chose to
be here. Because Allah wants you to be here, can you answer me?
Because Allah wants you to be here. That's why you are here. So that means you shall live your life according to your desires or according to what Allah has instructed, according to what Allah has instructed, if I am not even on Earth by my own choice, then how can it just be my own choice to do whatever crosses my mind whether it is or it is not in what conforms with what Allah has revealed? I cannot just do that. I need to make sure that whatever I do conforms with what is revealed by Allah subhanho wa taala. So we know that Islam is based on how many pillars
five pillars. We know that Islam is based on five pillars, we know that the first one is connected to Allah, we believe he is one he alone deserves to be worshipped. When we say
a shadow Allah Ilaha illa Allah we translated, as I bear witness that there is none worthy of
worthy
besides Allah, I bear witness there is none worthy of worship besides Allah. It is a declaration of Tawheed Oneness of Allah. It is a declaration that I will not worship anything or anyone besides Allah because they are not worthy of worship. So how come people say I bear witness there is none worthy of worship besides Allah, and when they are worshiping so many things besides Allah? Is that how it should be? No, it should actually be that when I declare there is none worthy of worship besides Allah, then I worship Allah alone. And I bear witness that Muhammad peace be upon him is the Messenger of Allah, it means he brought a message. That message is the most important message
because it comes from the one who made me, he made me he sent a message for me, how many of us? Can I ask you a question here in Zamboanga, you are ready to answer it. Sure. How many of you have read the Quran in a language that you understand it from cover to cover? Put up your hands
look, stand up if you would have read the Quran in a language that you understand from cover to cover, cover to cover the whole thing please stand up
come to the front
not one anyone
Okay, I see a few hands Mashallah. Okay, they are of your hands. Sorry, it's a little bit dark, right? But I want to tell you is that not embarrassing? I am here in Zamboanga today to tell you Wallahi there is no more powerful word in existence than the word of Allah. How can you be alive and living so much and you have not yet read the most important message brought by the most beloved messenger book given to him by Allah Who made you and whom you are going to return to promise Allah today that you are going to do something that you will read every day, some verses in the language that you understand so that you know the message of Allah Do you promise? Put up your hands if you
promise put up your hand
If you promise that you will read the Quran, in the language you understand in order to understand the message of Allah put up your hands Hi
Masha Allah tepee
when Allah He if we achieve only that today, I can actually go away and inshallah it will be a big success next time when I come to Zamboanga, I'm going to ask you the question, and I want to see how many of you have started because you might not finish in one year. It's okay. You can do a few verses at a time 123 verses at a time. On average, a human being reads hundreds, hundreds of WhatsApp messages a day. Do you know that? Hundreds of WhatsApp a guy like me maybe 1000s of WhatsApp messages, right 1000s. And sometimes some people they'd sit all day on the phone, the same phone has applications of Quran of translation, it is important to read the Quran exactly as it was
revealed in the language it was revealed in no doubt. You read it in Arabic, you do the tilava. You understand Subhanallah its meaning so that means on top of the Tilawat over and above the Tila and the correction of your recitation and the beautification of that recitation. The Quran has a right over you that you try to understand him. FLIR that bone.
What a beautiful verse of the Quran, Allah repeats this more than once in the Quran, he says, Will you Will they not ponder deeply over the verses of the Quran? Allah is asking you a question and asking me a question I need to say, indeed I will. I will, Inshallah, I'm going to try my best. I'm a Muslim. In my case, I'm a born Muslim. In the cases of a lot of you born Muslim in the cases of a large number, Malik Islam, new Muslim, right
Wallahi the biggest and most powerful gift you ever have is the gift of the message of Allah, the Quran, the gift of iman the gift of being the owner of Nabi Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, appreciate it, you have it in your hands. Read it, because you and I want to get to Jana, I want to go to paradise. How am I going to go to Paradise when I haven't even connected with the One who created me and created the paradise and in the interim, he created the way that I am in Subhan Allah I don't even know what he said. Allah asks you a question. While according to southern Quran, Ali Viki, if I handed him Dakhil
we have made this Quran easy to remember to memorize, to understand, to appreciate to learn to teach all aspects and all disciplines of connection with the Quran. Allah has made it easy and Allah has made it bless it.
So the question Allah is asking all of us for huddled Mimmo decade is there going to be any one of you who is prepared to make that effort to put it into memory to learn it, to understand it and so on? This is ALLAH asking you a question. Did you know that Allah is inviting you? To appreciate his word? Allah is asking you mountains of hate word crumbled, just by true reflection over two or three verses of the Quran. Look at Omar Tabia of the Allahu Allah. Look at an Joshi Omar. Bob was such a big hater that he wanted to kill Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he just heard the first few verses of Surah Baja Allah He the mountains of hate, crumbled, because he knew and he recognized
this is the truth. You and I are born Muslims. Come on. We promise Allah we're going to make an effort to learn the Quran because I want to go to Jana, we're talking about
Jana paradise where we are going to go
how to get there. The road to Jana and what we will get when we are there. It's the destination. It's the final destination. When I was traveling here to Zamboanga, do you know how I traveled here? from place to place to place each time I land? I know this is not my destination. This is not my destination. I took off from my country Harare, Zimbabwe. I landed in Johannesburg. I took off from Johannesburg. I landed in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. I took off from Ethiopia. I landed in Bangkok. We landed in Bangkok. We sat in the aircraft from Bangkok. We took off and landed in Hong Kong Hong Kong. I came out I changed planes. I went into Philippine Airlines and you I'm now getting closer to
my destination right to go Philippine Airlines landed in Manila by the way it was on time. Usually they say Philippine Airlines, you show your catching Philippine Airlines, you know, one hour two hours late, you know, like this particular event here, you know, it's okay. They say it's okay. It's fine. It's only Philippines.
Masha Allah No no no it was on time Masha Allah we landed in Manila so I came out Subhanallah and I knew we have something to do in Manila. We spoke to our brothers our sisters The following morning we took off where did we go? We went to Jin sang you know what is Jennsen?
The land of tuna and salmon Am I right?
The land of beautiful people the land of said
You see because you want me to say You are beautiful also. Right? The land of amazing people Philippines Mashallah. And there are so many amazing people across the world. But my brothers and sisters when we arrived in Jensen, they said no, we are going to Sultan Kudarat Sultan Quran so I said okay, let's go mashallah, we had such a beautiful ride. I thought I was on a horse. Mashallah, and I close my eyes and I'm just kidding.
I'm thinking Subhanallah It was amazing. We came to Sultan Kudarat we met beautiful people. We learn so much on the way I learned about the people and mashallah Tabata Kala in my heart, I said, Tomorrow we are going to Zamboanga because it's not my first time here. It's actually I don't even know how many times he would say how many times have you been to Zamboanga? Maybe, you know, I actually don't know. Because I've been here so many times. Sometimes I can see faces I recognize. Okay, I see that face. Okay, I see that face Subhanallah mashallah, Santa Monica. May Allah Almighty bless you. So Allah Almighty has told us that your destination is not this dunya it is only a
transit point, you still need to jump into the journey to the ultimate destination.
I want paradise How will I get it? I told you the first pillar of Islam protected learning it, understand it, work towards it and be proud of it. I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship besides my maker, Allah, I'm proud of it. I'm happy. I'm excited about it. Wallahi and I will not hide it. I am happy that I worship Allah and Allah alone. And if someone harasses me and troubles me and someone may be makes my life misery give just because I say La Ilaha illa Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah, I need to know it is an honor. It is an honor all the messengers and their followers, they were troubled, they were harassed, but were they not the messengers? Were they not
correct? Look at the Sahaba of the Allahu Anhu the companions are they not better than you and I were they not harassed and troubled so much Wallahi so much, they were troubled. But were they not on the hook on the truth? They were on the truth. So if someone laughs at you jokes at you, Harris's you troubles you on whatever level Wallahi it's an honor. And that's why the people who are troubled because they c'est la ilaha illa Allah they have a special rank in the eyes of Allah may Allah Almighty grant us goodness and protect all of us and protect our brothers and sisters all over the world. Moreso our brothers and sisters in Palestine who are struggling as we speak, may Allah
Almighty grant them victory grant and protection grant them goodness and make us a means of helping them in whatever way we can by the will of Allah subhanho wa Taala the second pillar of Islam what is it?
Say it loudly please?
Prayer five times a day right?
How many of us okay, let me not say it's embarrassing Allah I heard a guy one day saying Allah he you know what? Actually, how he spoke it was showing he is not even really keen on greeting Salah May Allah Almighty forgive us Wallahi it's a tough one.
Prayer is your connection with Allah. Nowadays you have electric vehicles, can you say a name of one of the electric vehicles? Tesla Tesla mashallah Tesla. Beautiful vehicle chef while Ibrahim always tells me come to Perth, you can drive my Tesla mashallah you can enjoy Wallah he the Tesla stops working after a little while if you don't charge it Do you know that so I don't have a Tesla
So Brother why he tells me well you have a fuel vehicle you still it still stops you still need to fuel it. I said okay, you when I lose you need to recharge that every single day Every time you want to move you recharge your motor vehicle and the same applies to our phones Wallahi Do you know how many times do you charge your phone so many times if there is no connection nearby and you know you are going on a journey what do you do you take something small called
Power Man Why power bank because you know I needed to charge my phone I need to be connected with the rest of the world. Why don't you charge yourself regarding Salah to be connected with the Lord of the whales take your power back with you small sir Jada small something small bottle of water whatever you
Have to Allah He wala He it is more important than the phone, even the new iPhone that came out it's called the iPhone 17 Have you come across it?
Then iPhone 17 More important than that iPhone Wallah, he is your bottle of water and your suggestion and your concern of your Salah connect with Allah is far greater and far more important than the connection with the whole world because if you do not connect with Allah, you will lose the hereafter in totality. What's the point? What is the point? And by the way, I don't even though of the iPhone 17
I think they stopped at about 15 Because I'm a Samsung guy. I know more about Samsung.
Mashallah. Or you don't want to listen to me anymore now because I'm Samsung.
It's okay.
I was going to say who else is Samsung but no problem. We won't fight about Samsung. We're talking about Jana. In Jana. There is no iPhone, no Samsung, you don't need all of that. Right? My brothers and sisters connect with Allah. The second pillar of Islam is Salah, Farfalla farming, the him calling from Allah on solid our own Sha.
Allah speaks about the missing Jews and their messages. And Allah speaks about how thereafter they will groups of people who left their prayer. So what happened to them.
They left their prayer and they followed their desires, they started doing whatever they want. Imagine you are on earth, not because you wanted to be here because Allah forced you to be here. That's why you are here. Allah pushed you you had to be here you have no say in the fact that you came onto the earth do you realize that? So you are here because it's out of your own capacity that you are here. So you are here. The one who put you here you have to connect with him you have no option but to connect with him. He's telling you don't just fulfill your whims and fantasies and desires. And there is a guarantee in Islam. If Allah tells you do not do something Wallah He it is
because it is harmful in one way or any way shape or form. It is negative, it is unhealthy, it is not good for you, there is something about it, that is destructive. If Allah tells you do not do something, Allah knows that this is the worst thing you could do. Allah has never prohibited something that is beneficial for you impossible.
The same applies if Allah tells you that this is compulsory, you have to do it Wallah, he, if you don't do it, you are at a loss and if you do it, it will develop you it will help you you will grow it will grant you the success in this world and the next you cannot just go around committing adultery for the rest of your life. It needs to stop you cannot go around gambling and drinking and doing whatever you want for the rest of your life Wallahi it should stop it must stop all of those things when they are unregulated. If they are regulatable you need to know that the damage is so severe you need to either regulate it or abstain from it completely if there is no way of regulating
it. Some people are addicted to *, some people are addicted to haram relation some people are addicted to alcohol gambling whatever it may be, some people are addicted to beating up their family members or stop Viola right. If you do not stop Wallahi you are at a loss. Those haram things there is no way of making them halal.
But if you want halal and you follow that which Allah has ordained, no matter how difficult it may be, and you discipline yourself Wallahi you will succeed. You know Islam is a religion of rules and regulations. Why? Allah wants you to be disciplined. He wants you to be upright you must be a beautiful human being. You walk in an amazing way. Allah says don't back by don't harm Don't abuse don't swear. Are those not good things? Allah is telling you. Is it good? Or is it bad Subhanallah it is brilliant advice. Not only advice, brilliant instructions, I'm honored that I just get free advice from Allah, I get free guidance from Allah.
I'm honored that I get free guidance from Allah. He tells you don't swear don't shout don't mean don't abuse. Don't be hurtful. These are simple pieces of advice. They will change your life. If you swear every day even for social swearing. You know, what is social swearing? I was sitting with a group of youngsters somewhere not too long ago. And the guys were just swearing F's and B's and so on. Big big swear. So my brother, you can avoid this. He's a chef. Don't be too hard. It's just social swearing. I told him you know people drink alcohol and they say it's just social drinking. Do you know that same thing
How can you use the word social and commit the sin? Social swearing, social, drinking, social, phone, social, whatever else it is Allah He all of it. Allah says no, you will not do it, I will not do it. I'm a believer, I believe in Allah. There we go.
Clean your tongue. You need to moisten your tongue with the remembrance of Allah. If you are going to use the tongue in the disobedience of Allah, you're going to go nowhere.
Allah is going to hold you accountable for everything I want to go to Jana, before I go to Jana, I have to face Allah and give account for all my deeds Subhanallah I need to give account for all my deeds.
So speaking about the second pillar of Islam, I gave you the example of the mobile phone how every little while you need to charge it or the battery goes, if you do not pray five times a day your connection with Allah will be disrupted.
It will be disrupted. Therefore, recharge, what do I do, I pray, but I'm so busy. Whatever you are doing, pray, make a plan. Make a plan. When people want to do haram. They make a plan to do haram. How can we not make a plan to do that which is an obligation upon us make a plan, you will do it you must do it, you shall do it. And Allah will grant you goodness. So I read the verse earlier, towards the end of surah. Maryam where Allah Almighty tells us that
there are there are people who came late Iran who abandoned their prayer and they follow their desires. What happened to them? They Allah says they will lose. They are the ones who will lose paradise. They will be thrown and cast into hellfire. What did they do? They forgot Allah, masha Allah half an Asiya, whom Allah speaks about the hypocrites and he says They forgot Allah, Allah left them tell us you can go do what you want. You know why? Because they're not going to go to Jannah May Allah Almighty protect us and forgive us and grant us steadfastness. I'm here to talk about paradise, how to get there the journey as well as what is it that Allah has prepared for us
there? So we start off with the pillars of Islam.
Your prayer
you know what Allah says immediately after that verse in
our man our amela Sani hang for Allah aka dofollow on jun, one. Munna Shani.
He spoke about those who abandon their prayer, those who follow their desires and how they are at a loss. Then he says, Except those who repent, if you've done anything in the past, Allah says, You know what, repent, you can repent. So Allah makes an exception and he says, Except those who repent and do good deeds, they are the ones who will be granted entry into paradise and Allah will not wrong anyone, Allah subhanho wa Taala one of the unique qualities of his
is that He is the Most Forgiving,
the Most Merciful, the oft forgiving, when you repent to Allah truly, you connected with Allah, He forgave you. He forgave you. You ask Allah Oh ALLAH what I did was wrong. Forgive me, you're a human, I'm a human, you are bound to err, you are bound to sin. At times you might engage in sin out of your human weakness, because you are a human.
The consolation of it is I have a Lord who is most forgiving, and I will go and I will seek forgiveness and I will continue to seek forgiveness and stay until the day that I meet with Allah. Imagine meeting with Allah, and your deeds are all forward. And every day of your life you sought the forgiveness of Allah, and it's there in your book, won't you be quite happy, meaning you are anxious because of the bad deeds, but you are happy that Hamdulillah I sought the forgiveness of Allah every day in a sincere way.
At least I may get the Mercy of Allah and the mercy of Allah will give me paradise. seek the forgiveness of Allah every day. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam sought the forgiveness of Allah, up to 100 times a day, according to a narration.
Did he need it? Did he need to do that? He didn't. Was he a sinful man? No. Start with Allah. The best of creation, the most noble of all prophets of Allah subhanho wa taala. But he sought that forgiveness as a lesson for all of us. Days pass. How many times do you seek forgiveness? Sometimes we forgot. We didn't make Toba. We didn't say Oh ALLAH forgive me. Forgive me for what I know what I don't know what I did openly what I did the hidden what I did a day what I did at night and so on.
Sometimes the longtime pastors we didn't seek the forgiveness of Allah I want to tell you, you want paradise help yourself to achieve Paradise by seeking the forgiveness of Allah often and Allah will grant you the Jannah. So Allah says, people will go into hellfire Except those who repent and those who do good deeds for them is Janna paradise was created for them. Sometimes people commit immorality, they commit some sin, they have fallen into adultery, fornication or not, whatever it may be. Allah Almighty says, If you repent, you are the type of person that I created paradise for. There are other verses where Allah says this.
Allah says, Paradise has been created for those who have repented from their sins.
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only be named those who have wronged themselves committed immorality.
They have wronged themselves when they remember ALLAH and they seek the forgiveness and they don't continue doing what they were on and they do good deeds thereafter. Do you know what Allah says in the following verse, Allah says
that those are the ones whom He has prepared paradise for.
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For those people, there is forgiveness from their Lord and there is paradise. Look at the hope Allah is giving us look at the hope Allah is giving us. Allah is telling us what you did in the past is the past. Do not dwell on it. Move forward, connect with Allah, you need to be better every day. Allahumma JAL, Kira, Yamuna, our Hera, O Allah, let the best of our deeds be the best of our days be the last days and the best of our deeds be the last deeds which means let us become better and better and better every day so that the last day that we are on earth, we are on the best that we ever were. That's what Allah says, I need that you need that.
When you're young, sometimes you don't think of the connection with Allah because you are so energetic and you really have the world ahead of you and you think I'm going to live for long. You concentrate on your school and your business and you concentrate on earning and making money because you want to live a healthy and luxury life without realizing because you're young, you don't think I need something more important than the house that I'm trying to buy or build here. And that is the eternal abode of the Hereafter. I'm not saying don't go out to work don't earn don't do please do whatever you can earn a lot May Allah make you billionaires say I mean
not even in pesos but in gold.
Because pesos tomorrow it might go this way that way is it
may Allah make it easy?
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Allah Akbar, I can keep going with these verses. Allah is telling us about paradise. Let's go slowly, bit by bit. Allah is saying he Jannati had been in the Paradise, the eternal paradise, the amazing paradise, the most beautiful paradise
the one that has been promised, by the most merciful
to his worshipers
in the unseen what is the unseen? Have you seen paradise? You haven't. But are you working towards paradise? Yes.
If someone gives me information that there is a beautiful holiday destination in Boracay or Palau, and wherever else it might be. I know it's there. Wallahi more convincing is the fact that there is a paradise more beautiful because the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came and delivered to us the word of Allah. It is more powerful than the word of any one of us. You might go to Palau and and Bora chi and you might be upset because either it was too hot, too humid the summer
was scorching something has to be negative, even about a positive place, always. But in Jannah, it's just positive.
People saying we went on holiday, but it was very hard. The one thing has to be out because Allah says we have to make something out so that you prepare for the perfect, the perfect. I started off by saying so many things I want, I cannot get them but I know I'm getting them. That's why sometimes you see a nice thing say in sha Allah, Allah will give me something better in Jannah Allah will give me something better in Jannah. Bear patience. If Allah did not give you something that your heart is desiring in this world, bear patience, and through the mercy of Allah, He will give you the reward of your patience multiplied to the degree that you will thank him so much. And you will be grateful
that he did not give you that thing in the world. Subhanallah you have a health matter or a health problem? This world is full of problems. Someone passed away, you're an orphan May Allah make it easy for you? May Allah grant your loved ones Jana, may Allah make your life easy, keep going, keep going. Don't give up Allah will take you away to one day. And then when you go back to Allah, you will be the happiest person that is Allah. Allah is just he does not oppress. So Allah says,
Allah has promised is definitely coming can allow a bigger word than
Allahu Akbar, in one place in Surah Al Furqan, Allah Almighty says, regarding the Promise of Allah, He says, Do you know it is upon Allah such that you can hold him accountable for his promise? How can we hold Allah accountable for his promise or responsible for his promise? Rather, we would say Allah will never ever go against his promise there goes, that's better. For me to word it that way is far more
connected to my belief, because I firmly believe that I don't need to ask Allah.
When I get to observe, oh Allah you promised me this, are you going to give it to me what Allah He before you can even do that it will come to you. You don't have to worry, Allah, US duck. He is the most truthful in whatever he says.
And he is the most beautiful in the way he says whatever he says that is Allah. Allah. When he makes a promise, it's a promise.
So Allah says, Allah is my own Fe her loved one. They will not hear any speech that is futile. They won't hear anything. The only thing they will hear is goodness and peace, either the greeting Salam, salam, that's the greeting of Jana in Jana, Salam beasts.
Subhan Allah, this is Allah telling us, you will be at peace. One of the biggest gifts of Allah is Peace.
When we were coming to Zamboanga every time, including this time, people say please don't go it's dangerous. I say no, it's not.
Please don't go it's dangerous. No, it's not. They said don't go to Tawi Tawi. He said No, or you need to go to Tavita we
we will go so what they are lovely people warm hearts. They're good. They're kind we are only going with the message of Allah. I what am I telling you today? Connect to Allah. That's all. It's a safe place. It's a good place. Because of a few incidents that might have happened. People already saying there is no peace. How can you say that? So Allah, but what it does teach me is that peace is a big gift of Allah. Peace is a gift of Allah, the people in the greatest piece of the people in Jannah and Paradise.
And Allah says Allah Houma is goofy. They will have sustenance, their own sustenance in Jannah in paradise, morning and evening, whatever you want, however you want whenever you want, it is yours. It is your what do you want?
Allah says, Don't worry, you worked hard in this world. You went through the struggles that I put you through you were patient, you fulfill your prayer, you connected with me, you remained away from immorality. You did not engage in shirk or association of partnership with me in any way, shape or form.
You gave charity to the poor. For those who could they went for Hajj, you fasted in the month of Ramadan, you were upright, you only ate halal, you repented every day well Allah He you have succeeded, Wallah he, you have succeeded. May Allah grant us success. Good news to you. Today I am here to tell you my brothers and sisters, let's be better people. Let's be better people in every way.
In my connection with Allah primarily, and in my connection with everyone else, you know, you have your mother at home.
And maybe they might have passed away or your grandmother, your parents or your father, whoever Wallah he treat them with kindness, that is your daughter Jana. Treat them with kindness, you have the elderly, Allah tells you to respect those who are elderly, you give them priority, that cultures in this part of the world generally do adopt that teaching, to say we respect the elderly, am I right? So we respect them in a beautiful way, serve them. I always say when people come and complain about their mother in law or someone else, I always say, if Allah has kept a reward, great reward to serve the elderly, who are random, not even related to you, can you imagine the reward of serving
the one who is related to you or to your husband or your wife? Can you imagine if random person who is old, there is such a great reward to serve them? And to look after them? What do you think will be the reward to serve the one who is all but connected to you through relation, Allah He it will be much bigger, there is a double reward because there is a double connection. And there is a triple reward when there is a triple connection. So Allah will not give you a massive reward for something unless it's very hard to do.
Allah in silat Allah He had the the product that Allah has for you is not cheap. It's a very expensive product. What is it? It's paradise. You want it? Well, you're gonna have to work hard, five prayers a day, you have to get up enjoy them. You have to get used to them Do you have to make sure no matter what I'm doing, I'm going to pray. Right now is the time of prayer. I'm going to cut my talk short simply because it is the time of prayer and we all need to go to pray. So in a few minutes, rather than speaking for one whole hour, I will not speak for one hour because for me the prayer is more important than what I'm saying now.
So my brothers and sisters, here we are teaching, what are we teaching, bear patience regarding what Allah has put you in? Allah knows he will give you Jana, he knows you personally. He knows your problem, your hardship, your difficulty, your struggle, some are finding it difficult to find the spouse, some have a spouse, but it became a bit spicy.
Right?
You know, back in the day when they used to say what is the plural of mouse? What's the plural of mouse? Mice? So someone says well then what's the plural of spouse?
They say spice La Hawla. Sometimes it becomes a bit too spicy, right?
Too hot. Why? Because there is a plural. That's why May Allah Almighty forgive us and grant us ease. My brothers and sisters we need to know that Allah is merciful. Allah is the Greatest. Don't lose hope. I have my own struggles. You have your own struggles, but trust me, we should be the happiest people no problem. I have a struggle. I'm a happy person. I'll have them you're alive. You're okay. Everyday you struggle a bit. Are you managing your coping? Well, then Allah chose that problem for you. If you want the problem to go away. Yes, it might go away. Who knows? Allah might test you with a bigger problem, then you're gonna say oh, you know what? The other problem was better than this
one here. I rather have the other one too late. Now there's a bigger problem here. May Allah Almighty grant us goodness and Jelena May Allah Almighty elevate our status and may Allah Almighty truly grant us the paradise in which there is whatever we wish for however long we want. So I want to end off by saying, what is it in Jannah? What are you getting in Jana?
Can I ask you a question?
How many of you have pets will have your hands? You have a pet? Either a cat or whatever else it might be?
You have pets? Okay, put your hands down. How many of you want your pet in paradise?
Quite a few hands. Okay, put your hands down. Mashallah, I want to tell you something.
There is an answer to that someone asked me if I have a dog. Now. That's a whole chapter, right? I need my dog in Jannah. You know what I told him?
Have you heard the speech where I said this? I said can you imagine in Jannah I'm sitting calm, cool. And suddenly I hear rock rock rock. Oh, come on. It can't happen.
It can't happen. Janna paradise and suddenly I will hear a dog next to me and another few dogs. And so one guy has a monkey and the donkey and whatever else yaki Subhan Allah
La ilaha illa Allah you want the dog in general so let me tell you what is the answer?
You your pet. Rather than worrying about your pet go to Jana Walla, he worry about yourself. Go to Jana. When you get there Allah will
not let you down. Sometimes there will be something so mind boggling and amazing that you won't even remember what you had back on Earth, if you won't even remember because what is on offer is something amazing. beyond your imagination. I always talk about even in this hall, I want spoke about how when you're in the womb of your mother, what do you remember? Nothing. Because when you came out, it was too overwhelming, too overwhelming. I can't remember a thing, not one thing. So if you were in the womb of your mother, and you think to yourself, This is tasty, nice, I hope one day I have this in what might have been known as the life after the womb, right?
You don't even remember that you were in the womb, but you know, you were there. You don't remember, you know, you were there. It might happen that when I go into the hereafter, so many aspects of my living on Earth, I may never remember that, who and why? Because Allah knows. But sometimes while we are fighting about whether my dog is going to be there or not, we forget about whether I am going to be there or not. That's the problem. That is the big problem. It's Satan's plan.
It's Satan's plan, where he makes you think about something you may or may not get there. The degree that you forget that I might not even be going there. A guy tells me and this is something that really has happened. Many things we are hearing about Jana, that you know what, relax, relax, like they say, Take a chill pill. You know why?
Work on yourself? Are you going to be in Jannah? That's the most important question for me, it's about myself. Wallahi when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam speaks about how serious the Day of Judgment is. He says Colonia called on FC enough see everyone is going to worry about himself and himself alone. Each one is worried about himself or herself. If that is the condition of the messengers. What about you and me?
Only Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam worried about the whole Ummah on Mighty Mighty, may Allah Almighty gather us as an ummah, on the day of judgment and take us through to Jannah without reckoning.
My brothers and sisters, we meet again in sha Allah. But until we meet again, we pray that Allah Almighty grant us goodness, we pray that he changed us in a good way. We pray that he connects us with him in a better way. You need to learn you need to study you need to actually increase in the good that you are doing and you need to cut the bad, whatever bad habits you have cut them, you want to do something good do it from today. You want to stop something bad, stop it from now. It is possible, Allah will ask you and I about it. When we get on the day of judgment. And we say, Oh Allah, I stopped it only for your sake.
You will see the reward of that day. May Allah Almighty grant us goodness in the hero in the in this world and in the Hereafter. And I tell you, if Allah has written that we don't meet in this world, in sha Allah, we meet in the hereafter.
Like I say, we're going to be doing our Salah just now. No need to stampede and no need to push each other and shelf. It's impossible for a guy like me to shake everyone's hand. And another thing it's not virtuous, there is no special virtue to shake my hand at all. I'm a human just like you who knows maybe you are far better than me. But Allah has given us the opportunity at least to be in the same place at the same time. I thank Allah for that. And Allah gave us the opportunity to say good things to remind each other about him. I thank Allah for them. May Allah give us another opportunity and another opportunity and more opportunities until we meet with Allah subhanho wa Taala but if we
don't meet here,
we're meeting nature who wants to meet in the Akira
who wants to meet in Jana Masha Allah, may Allah Almighty grant us or Jana Akula Kohli had our sallahu wa salam ala Nabina Muhammad wa salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.