Muhammad West – Ramadan 2018 – Episode 24

			The village nishitani rajim Bismillah R Rahman Rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil aalameen or salat wa
salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa alayhi wa sallam, he married my beloved brothers and sisters in
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			night 24. And we've got five more thoroughly slept before they ever eat five more nights for us to
make as much as we can. Our grant him to be fruitful. I mean, we're talking about the full story of
Suzuka, the story of Luke coordinating this great leader, well traveled and had had different
encounters. And we continue to discuss before we talk about the huge and the science of karma, I
think we need to talk a little bit more about leadership. Because this currently, one of its
greatest problems is a crisis of leadership, crisis of leadership to problems. We don't we have bad
leaders. And, and more worse than that, we lack leaders. So those that are they are not doing the
		

			job properly, and the rest of us are not fulfilling that gap. So for those who are those of us who
are in leadership and leadership is not just to be understood as the halifa or the Imam, or the
ruler of the President, the Prophet sallallahu sallam, all of us are shepherds, even the slave is a
shepherd in the things. He's also responsible for certain things meaning, we are all leaders, and we
all have responsibilities. And whether it might be in work, if you're a manager of people, you're
the leader. If you're a father, if you're a mother, you're a leader. If you're a teacher, you're a
leader, all of us have leadership responsibilities. And we say that this is one of the most
		

			difficult and toughest tests to pass leadership fulfilling that Amana fulfilling that responsibility
is a huge huge test. We said sudo Caf is all about having been given responsibilities being given
well being given knowledge be given Youth Leadership, how you respond, is how will ask be asked
about the FTM. So things from struggle coordinate we learned about effective leadership and
effective leader of the things that he does is number one, he is selfless. We said that yesterday,
when he was offered money, he said no. Leadership is something that you do selflessly. You're a
parent your kids selflessly. When you are with your employees, those that you manage, you look to
		

			develop them and grow them for your own personal game. It makes the successful leader is when his
followers can actually go beyond him. That's a successful leader. You see from the codename justice
and fairness in the way he leads people in the way he manages people the way he is as for us in our
context, maybe the way you are in the committee, the way you are as a boss, this is how you should
be just and fee and then the people will love you. And your followers will obey you. And you need to
be concerned and influence vanilla, lukewarm incomes to people who couldn't even speak his language.
And he finds out what's the problem. Now this is maybe in today's times you would think the CFO the
		

			CEO of a company knowing spiral of the lowest level of person in the in the you know, when the
government the lowest person, what are the concerns, the government brings himself to this level, he
finds a what is the problem that you have and he finds a solution for them. He is also good
effective leadership and as we said our oma even the prophets of Salaam Allah commands him to do
things with Shula Mashallah, we are not one man shows, one. You know, that's that's not how it goes.
That we need to surround ourselves with good people as well. We said this in the July yesterday,
this afternoon. Hadith it says, If Allah was good for the leader, he surrounds him with good was he
		

			good ministers so that when he's out of line, they keep him in check. And when Allah was bad for the
leader, he puts him in around him whenever he wants to do something, they just said Yes, go ahead
and support him in whatever is wrong. So part of Matura is sometimes a headache, having to consult
everyone having to discuss and debate but this is part of our, our own and our legacy. And that's
what brings a good leadership Matura we should never stop that dialogue, to coordinate all these
power, all these energy, he still sits down with these people who he couldn't even speak with. And
he said, Look, this is the plan, effective communication, and he says I will lead from the front. I
		

			come first but you support me. That is great leadership. That's what we're talking about. Now this
oma for almost 100 years now. We've not had halifa in the history of Islam. This is something
strange that we are a people without a leader. In fact the prophets of Salaam are so slick on
leadership. He says the three of you go out on a journey you should appoint an email. If you go out
in a group you should always have a leader. Why because it is the symbol of of this almost eliminate
our our evaluator, we have an Imam and that is makes Allah we follow. This is how this Deen is
structured. That is always a leadership group without a leadership is lost is without basically
		

			guidance. So we have lost political leadership for almost 100 years. It's very strange time and
perhaps one of the signs of the impending towards the end of time, and therefore without leadership
we lacked direction with the Omega when we see the oma on fire throughout the world, but we ask
whose responsibilities it was must take up the challenge.
		

			Palestine and Syria and Burma and Kashmir and N N N N, whose responsibility is it, we don't have a
leadership. We don't have a vision, we don't have a solution. This is one of the problems that we
have as an oma, and therefore we've become so easy to be exploited. And we've been picked off one by
one because we're not unified behind one common leadership. And therefore, this worse than having
bad leaders is the lack of leadership that we have. Not that we lack people with the skills we are
1.6 billion people, almost 2 billion people. While we have great people in the soma, with great
ingenuity, great knowledge, great financial means resources, and great leadership abilities. But
		

			we're not bringing it out to the fore. Why? Because this is disease of apathy in this room. Everyone
says it's not my concern, really. We waiting for someone else to take up the challenge. This is the
this is a concern. So today's Allah, Allah forgive us, we all have cell phones. We see this
literally, we see this on our cell phone. Have we not seen war? people being killed, bombed? We did
nothing. what's our excuse going to be another FTM? What did you do? I said nothing. I did nothing
Allah. We saw people dying of hunger. Now when we go through fosse, we know what that means someone
to die without having food. What did we do? Nothing. We saw people fleeing their homes, whether it
		

			is Burma, whether it is Kashmir, whether it's the Middle East, people running away as refugees,
children as orphans, people dying of war and feminine disease. What did we do as a man What did we
do nothing vanilla. But we if at most, we maybe felt bad, we put a few rents in the towel. We've
made an EFT. But that's not enough, locally in our small community. People coming into our areas,
changing our culture, changing what we've had our legacy, we see unfit people running and ruling
from a political level from from the highest of levels, the levels of structures, people who are
unfit to rule, people, we're not taking us any good in any direction. We see criminals roam freely,
		

			we see institutions organizations dysfunctional, not moving forward. So this is a symptoms of our
oma as it is right now, something we can all agree on. Whether you're here in South Africa, or you
in Bangladesh, or you in Saudi Arabia, we agree this is the symptom of the oma and Allah Subhana.
The Prophet peace who speaks about times like this, the prophet SAW instances, in a hadith could see
Allah himself says, I shall take revenge on the oppressor, in this life and in the next and also
Allah says, I will take revenge on someone who saw a person being oppressed, he was able to help
him, but he did nothing. He didn't do anything. Now we can all say 1.6 billion of us there's nothing
		

			we can all do. All of us collectively, we can't do anything. That's not enough. That's not a good
enough answer.
		

			The Prophet peace upon him says, indeed, you will enjoin good and forbid evil, and you will take the
end of the oppressor and you will persuade him to act justly and he will stick to the truth, or
Allah will cause involve the hearts of some of you with the hearts of others and curse will be upon
you, alas, curse will be upon us, may Allah protect us, another Hadith prophecies by human whose
hand my soul is you either will start enjoining good, encouraging for the good, proactively
encouraging good and proactively stopping evil in this world, or Allah will certainly seen his
punishment on you. And what is that punishment? When you make dua? It's not accepted. So yeah, 1.6
		

			billion of us making dua. When are you going to help us? When are you going to help us? Well, this
is we're not doing our job. Very, very famous scene. It's not that we have extraordinary evil
people, it's the are very, very evil people's panel are very, very evil people will find them on CNN
and BBC. But worse than that, as we said, the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is when good
people do nothing, we do nothing. And that is our problem. And that is our, our urge I will call for
the 1.6 billion of us that have skills that have resources that have ingenuity that have ideas, when
we see something wrong, and we can all we can all list a whole list of complaints about the MGC,
		

			about the masjid, about the committee, whatever it might be Alhamdulillah bring those complaints,
but don't complain. From the from objectivity. Don't do it in your living room, come to the masjid
and do it for the sake of the oma. We need proactive people to become proactive. So if we look at
the symptoms, for example, whenever we see a crisis, one of the crisis every week, there's a new
ones who had a lot every week. There's a new kind of crisis. And the response of us on the ground,
we asked, Well, what are the leaders? What's the MTC doing? What's the government doing? What's the
Imam doing? What's the committee doing? What are they doing? What are the teachers in the schools we
		

			look at our schools are not functioning the kids are not progressing or what is the school doing the
principal doing the teachers doing? We are the rich, they are the ones it's supposed to help.
Another problem is in the poor area. Crime is the problem and we start pointing the finger and
shifting the blame. This is not how the professor learned
		

			And you know, this is not the sooner than when the, when the Confederates were about to invade
Medina, the prophet put it out. So send love to the whole community. Do you have an idea? How are we
going to defend Medina, a slave, one of the lowest in society in terms of his status and
manufacture, see a man who is lower than your domestic worker, really a slave, he is the one that
comes up with the idea, let's build the trench. Because everyone felt we have something to
contribute. So every single one of us has something to contribute. And we can begin to shift our
concerns from only being you know, I'm busy. My kids, my work, we all working, we all have kids,
		

			we're all busy. But if we just stick to our own, our own problems, our own life goals, our own
ambitions, this woman will not move forward. We need to start giving of ourselves not money. When I
say about our time, our energy, our efforts to something bigger than ourselves. That is leadership.
Now, we cannot blame. And it's easy to blame the leaders, when at least that bad leader, he stepped
up, he went to go sit on the committee, he went to go to meetings, he's making a decision, we are
sitting in the lounge doing nothing. So that bad leader at least is excused on piano, you can say
yeah, I tried my best. That's what I did. They didn't do anything. They just put the point the
		

			finger and said it's my fault. So every single one of us needs to make it part of our life duty to
get involved in our community. When I say community, it doesn't just have to be Islamic community,
get part of the Civic part of the school PTA part of the masjid committee, part of the neighborhood
watch Alhamdulillah such as be part of something. And that's why look at our aspirations. A lot of
other sisters great verse to us. And we only have the right to to to quote this verse really, if we
live by it will always come to come to see that you are the best generation of people ever created
of mankind. Remember that the item is number one of all creation angels bow to him, and of all the
		

			generations of nubby Adam, this oma is the base only when he does what
		

			it proactively encourages good in society any longer and it forbids evil, it stops all kinds of evil
minions, and they believe in Allah. And Allah Subhana Allah says to us late they always arise from
you a group of people calling to that which is good in joining Allah, Ruth, and forbidding evil, and
what would I go with, and that is the people who are successful, they always needs to be a group
that stands up and leaves this room always has to be. And that's one of the reasons why we don't
have groups like this. People don't stand up anymore and say, well, we see people burning tires,
What's the reason? What are we going to do about it? We see, name the problem, what are we going to
		

			do about it? buka for just a second here, literally people complain to me all the time. We have so
many tourists coming in here, but not one cent goes to the development of buka. Well, who's going to
sit up and say, well, I've got a plan, I'm going to do something, what are we waiting for? No one's
gonna do it for, you know, for us. We have to fix our own problems, and something very beautiful.
And I say there's a hunger to those who give the time to the masjid. It's not easy. Being on budget
committees. It's not easy. I know you take from your family time you working when you come to the
masjid and you all have been in meetings with Pamela you know, for supper, to go. Allah Subhana
		

			Allah says that the mosques of Allah, they are maintained only by those who believe in Allah, and
they believe in the last day, and they establish salah and they give zetta and they fear none but
Allah, it is they who are expected to be on through guidance. And it's interesting when Allah puts
that last part, they fear none but Allah, your food. This is the description of the majority, right?
They see an animal but Allah, but if you want to be part of the magic committee, the police or the
masjid, you should you don't fear anyone you make a decision. If it's unpopular, you make the
decision for the sake of Allah. That's why one scholar said, the reason why our marriages are not
		

			working is because the main used to be on the budget committees, they're not anymore. So when they
frustrated from work in the past, they came home with the frustrations. They didn't take it out on
the wife, they took it out in the budget committee. Now, we don't probably not part of the budget
committee. We take our frustrations out and our family. That's why our marriage is not working. And
I have my interest side note is one of my youngest fondest memories, you know, is sitting around the
supper table with my grandfather, Allah preserve him. He was part of the committee and Paul and
always come, you know, you'd mentioned about the politics in the JAMA meetings and other terrible
		

			places. Gemma sounds like gentlemen, right? It's always arguing and fighting. But swannanoa that's
what really keeps you alive, working for the community. You know, it's vital that will give you the
greatest pleasure if you don't have you know, some social activism in your life. You don't you know,
part of a feeding scheme when something will allow you won't taste through happiness. The biggest
joy in your life is to see something bigger than you flourish. The people that I find that are
happiest, and that successful, not in terms maybe financially successful, but successful in their
life are people who are devoted to come
		

			What if you never experienced that all you thought about was your own problems? When am I going to
get my next car my next holiday that was your own focus. You live such a small, closed life. Too
many of us are living like that, and will lie. As I said before,
		

			this community in the bootcamp was built not by professors and doctors and lawyers, very simple,
plain, and educated, poor people, both this community and it's thriving. We have lots more talent,
lots more opportunity, lots more powerful educated people. Now in our community, we should be taking
this to the next level. But it's not going to work. If all you think about your next holiday, and
the next call, and the next fun thing or other put that energy in the masjid put that energy in the
school put that energy in the community and Subhanallah you will see automatically that leadership
is not going to fix itself from a top down, it will start from the bottom up. Let's fix the masjid
		

			on the corner. Before we get too much luck saw. We talked about Mozilla. So we have an email message
sheets that are standing falling apart. They don't have electricity here in Cape Town. What about
tomorrow, we need to get the step by step we need to get the step by step. So but lots of hands. So
this is the absence of leadership and the food. This is the cool the urges that everyone give of
yourself for the community. And this is one of the things we learn from Little codename is a great,
great leader. Tomorrow, inshallah, we'll get into the detail as to what easier to imagine who are
they What are they, they will overrun the world in a time close part of the days before piano. In
		

			fact, maybe Isa himself will encounter them and he will not be able to defeat them. So we'll talk
about the general and the 10 signs of piano and your maturity model insha Allah as for this
evening's question,
		

			last question of when we said What is the name of the register of the good souls so those who pass
away the souls Allah says will be accordingly book. Those are the successful ones. May Allah grant
all of us our names to be in this book, the book of Lino Leone, this is the book of the good souls,
as well as the gene. This is the book of the evil souls Mallanna put our names in that book. I mean,
tonight's question, which of the qualities of the mosquito well is the most the Majid committed
people? What are the qualities Allah describes? Allah describes them in the Quran in universe, as
mentioned the Quran? What are the qualities that they have? Do they foster a lot? Are they good
		

			public speakers? They don't fear anyone other than Allah. And there are only are they only mean
Which one is it?
		

			Right, which one is it? Right? And this applies to Johannesburg and Durban matches as well. When
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			I mean,