Who Should Remind You

So the question is,

who do you want

to remind you to turn to your maker?

Who do you want to remind you

that you need to be a good Muslim?

Whoever

it is,

you can hear them reminding you. Nowadays,

it's just a few buttons away. Say the

person's name.

Who ever, whichever sheikh, whichever person

appeals to you,

say their name.

Google them

and listen. They will give you the same

reminder.

Exactly the same reminder.

Amazing.

And then, we're just going to listen and

say, powerful speaker.

Powerful speaker. But did your life change? No,

it didn't. So that wasn't powerful enough.

It wasn't good enough, really.

What's the point of us attending conferences and

conventions

and lectures

And listening to so many lectures on YouTube

and perhaps on the telly and perhaps on

the radio and so many different places. But

our hearts

have not moved.

Our lives have not changed.

I cry

when I think of how much Quran we

read. We call it a khatma.

Which means we complete the entire Quran from

cover to cover. Not once but so many

times. And our lives have not moved.

Sometimes we have not even cried the warm

tears.

And yet, there were enemies of Islam in

the past.

One verse

was enough to shake up their whole lives

and they turned to Allah

Why? It's the sincerity.

It's the search and the thirst,

and the acceptance of Allah

My brothers and sisters, life is not all

about entertainment and enjoying yourself

beyond limits. No, it is limited.

You should know how to enjoy yourself. You

should know what it is that will help

you in this world lead a peaceful life

and in the life after death. Help you,

insha Allah, earn paradise. May Allah, unite us

in paradise. Ameen.

But it's amazing how we read the Qur'an

again and again. We haven't even changed.

And everyone says, Oh. That sheikh.

This sheikh reads very well. Beautiful recitation in

my car. I enjoy this recitation, and that

recitation.

My brother and sister, Islam is not just

about enjoying a recitation.

Do something about it. Come on, man. Allahu

Akbar. Change your life. It's not just about

saying, yeah. We want you to talk about

this and that, because our men are doing

this and our women are doing that. So

talk about this, this, this. It's not just

about talking about things. Change your life first

to start with, the rest of the world

will change.

May Allah grant us goodness. May He open

our doors, really. I am passionate about what

I am saying. And I've kept it quite

simple because

in life,

we have so many things that people are

telling us, bombarding us with so many things.

Yet, it's the simple things that would actually

change us.

May Allah make us better. We cannot resolve

disputes within our own families, our in laws,

within our own communities, and we expect to

be known as the best of people.

The ummah that others should be looking at

and saying, Masha Allah, we want to be

Muslimeen.

How do we expect that if we ourselves,

accusing one another of things that we have

not done?

Allahu Akbar.

So many crises. People are today,

I don't know about this part of the

world, but where I come from, I know

that it's happening.

Businessmen will tell you, I don't want to

deal with Muslims.

And you say, but why? Oh, they are

they will not pay. You know, they scrounge

for the biggest discount.

And on top of that, they will complain

about the product.

If they were to buy the same product

from someone who is not a Muslim, they

will pay the full price and they will

never complain.

What is this attitude?

We are abusing brotherhood in Islam.

Trying to just find a discount out of

the word brotherhood. To say, brother, I'm your

Muslim brother. Come on. Can't you see? Masha'Allah,

We go to the same masjid. You know,

brother. If you're selling this thing at $50,

you know, I'm I read salah with you,

my brother. You can give it to me

for 20. And the next day, it's not

working. I told you it's not working. But

brother, did you follow the instructions and this?

So the best thing people tell you, I

don't want to deal with them.

We should cry if we hear those statements.

I've heard a statement saying,

if a check bounces, it's a Muslim. A'udu

billah. I hope that's not the case in

this part of the world. But I've heard

that happening.

People will tell you that, you know what?

When you find

those who maltreat their women, they are Muslims.

Is that true? I hope it's not. We

are trying so hard. We are trying so

hard, really, with our families, so that we

can lead a life of happiness and goodness.

Remember, I always tell people, you know, you

got married, masha Allah.

And you have a life, masha Allah. You

have your children now. Concentrate on this family

that you have.

Don't try and get everything else. It's like

a person, for example, he's got a business

that is barely

making a profit, and he wants to open

another 2 or 3 branches. What's the point?

Brother, concentrate on that one business, insha'Allah. And

what will happen? You let it grow, and

insha'Allah it will grow, it will become successful,

and people might be able to take it

over and so on. And alhamdulillah,

this would be more beneficial for you, than

if you were without operating properly with 1.

You'd like to just get to another and

May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala protect us.

May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala protect us.