Omar Suleiman – Missed Opportunities

			and my nephew claims that he is a prophet of Allah. And he claims that he receives revelation from
the Lord of the heavens in the earth. And listen to how he describes it. He says what our Allah He
meant out of the Quran. Allah had the deen Radiant Life rather, there is not a single person, I
swear by Allah upon this religion, other than these three people, no one on earth, except for these
three people. Now I fief could have done something with that. He could have went up to the prophets
of Allah who it was Saddam and investigated the matter. But he did what most people would have done,
which is wait it out. Wait to see what's going to become of this affair. He didn't necessarily
		

			oppose it. In fact, he didn't express any hostility to the prophets like Selim. He wasn't someone
that had any skin in the game when it came to the idols of Mecca. But he waited it out. And I want
you to imagine as you see the sights of the camera today, what is it like when only three people are
standing in front of the camera, worshiping ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada properly. And later on, he would
become Muslim towards Santa Monica, towards the conquest of Mecca. So towards the very end of the
span of the Prophet slice on his life, and indeed, he's blessed because he's a companion. But he
would frequently be heard saying, Yeah, lately, Tony Quinto, labia, I wish I would have been the
		

			fourth, I wish I would have been the fourth, I wish I would have been the fourth. I could have been
the fourth. I could have went there. I could have asked him something I could have found out about
this religion. I could have went and prayed next to the prophets lie Selim in it. If we thought
about the alignment, Khadija will be alone and how behind us I could have been the fourth. And I
want you to contrast this reaction to a much more famous story, what a couple of NOFO will be
allowed to touch on what UCLA is on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. What UCLA has
prepared his entire life for this opportunity? He's gone all over the world studied a scripture
		

			that's completely unfamiliar to him learned languages, I mean, done levels of investigation that
only a handful of people even come close to doing in Makkah.
		

			And he has the prophets lie some and Khadija will be Allah Tada. And right in front of him.
		

			And the profit slice I'm describing the experience.
		

			And as what aka here's the experience what UCLA is already as some of the scholars of Cedarwood have
mentioned already in his 90s he's extremely elderly, he only has a few days left to live. And this
opportunity that he hoped he would have encountered early on in his life shows up and his first
reaction I want you to pay attention to the the ordering of his words. Yeah, late and if he had
general I wish I was young, late any Hakuna Hagen is usually Joker komak I wish I would be alive
when your people run you out.
		

			It's Pamela before he even mentioned to the prophets license, you'll be run out. He already is
expressing regrets. I wish I was young
		

			Subhan Allah He worked his entire life for this moment. And the moment shows up when he only has a
few minutes left in life. And he's saying I could have been young and I could have been with you
when your people run you out. Now the prophets license reaction is wait. They're gonna run me out.
His first reaction is I wish I was young 810 You come to Jeddah I could have been with you when that
all happens because he waited for that opportunity. And of course, as it shall be alone, he narrates
that what aka lived only a few days after that, all the Allahu Taala now the prophets license said
that I saw what I thought were the level or two and Jana all by himself. So the output is there, the
		

			reward is there. But that opportunity that he prepared himself with how many times when you read the
books of cod you hear about these elderly people that passed away,
		

			that had great children great descendants. But why because investigation paid off. Allah knows why
he chose him for that time. Allah knows why a man who was that sincere and dedicated, did not get to
be 30 years old or 40 years old. When that he saw that came to Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
Allah SCADA is perfect.
		

			But there's something there. Now if you take the example of what aka
		

			who prepared for the opportunity, who investigated the opportunity before the opportunity even came
to IP Phil kindI who simply encountered the opportunity and then waited out to see what the
investment was going to bear. You have a couple of mindsets. None of this is random. Most people
take the fifth way or the Allah Tada and most people wait things out. If you think in terms of dunya
we investments worldly investments most people strike
		

			At an opportune time, when they're able to do something, what aka was not someone who simply came
across the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he waited for the moment he was studying, he was
investigating. And as soon as the opportunity was in front of him, he renewed his commitment to live
up to that opportunity, with every fiber of his being around the Allahu taala. And so sometimes when
we talk about missed opportunities, it's because of the time that you live in. And Allah subhanaw
taala knows why he puts you in this time and why he didn't put you in the time of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the companions. Sometimes, it's not knowing the blessing of what's
		

			in front of you.
		

			And that's why the Scholars mentioned at the end that knowledge is one of the greatest ways proper
investigation of knowledge is one of the greatest ways to make sure that an opportunity does not
escape you. If you read about the virtues of something constantly, if you're reading about the
virtues of the AMOLED, how are you going to miss the AMOLED? You're reading about the virtues of
coming to the measuring how are you going to miss coming to the mesures you're reading about the
virtues of voluntary fasting? How are you going to miss out on voluntary fasting, and the list goes
on and on, of course, so many more things that are outside of the realm of what we typically deem as
		

			riba of worship, that there are opportunities upon opportunities upon opportunities, but if you're
not studying those virtues, you might miss it. There's a famous narration from our beloved Norma
Radi Allahu anha used to follow the footsteps of the prophets of Allah Harney was salam. And he
heard of the Hodeidah about the Allahu Tada. And when the messages say that whoever witnesses the
janazah and then follows the janazah had to defend until the person is buried. Allah subhanaw taala
I will write down for that person to to plot two mountains.
		

			In one narration, the size of Earth in one narration, us vulnerable man myth, the smaller of the two
mountains. It's also an authentic hadith is like,
		

			so if you attend the janazah, you get one mountain, like a herd of good deeds. If you go through to
the janazah and you witnessed the burial as well, then you get to a staccato Houma, Mr. Duterte. And
Allah knows best if the smaller one would be the one where there is less exertion, which is
attending the Janaza in the masjid. How many more people attend to Janaza in the masjid than
actually follow it to the graveyard. That discrepancy is always huge, unless there's someone that
was very well known to the committee. And even then there's a discrepancy, right? Why? Because I've
got to get back to work. I've got to get back to what I was doing. I've got to get back to what
		

			I've, you know, my meetings for the day, very few people can take out that time and say, let me go.
Now I've been on model the Allahumma. He hadn't heard about the reward of going to the graveyard
itself. And so when he heard who say that, he said, you heard that from the Prophets line someone?
He said yes. And he said something, so go ask, shall we'll be alone. And have she heard that from
the Prophet slicin him as well. He wants to really make sure that he's not hearing two different
things here. And he's sitting in the masjid.
		

			And he's got these, these rocks in his hand. And he's nervous, he's picking up the dirt. He's
waiting for the answer, basically, the equivalent of pacing, and the man comes back from Omen moment
in it. So the lower Manhattan confirms indeed the prophets lysozyme said that whoever prays the
janazah, and then follows it, until that person is buried, will have two mountains, the size of
Earth, or the smaller of them the size of a hood, and he throws the rocks that are in his head. And
he says, How many mountains have I missed out on?
		

			How many calories? How many mountains did I lose, not knowing this, so sometimes you miss an
opportunity.
		

			Because you don't know about something? And that is the beauty of what we have in this time.
Subhanallah at no point in history, can you look up the falafel the virtues of an action like you
can right now information is easily available to you. But at no point in the history of this on
mobile, you find less people acting upon these virtues, even though they're available to us. And so
it's investigating the virtues of something, and then making sure that you don't miss out on them.
Sometimes it's not knowing the opportunities that are present to you in a place where you live. You
know, Subhan Allah, one of the narrations that we mentioned in the stories of the Sahaba of a Buddha
		

			or the Allahu Taala anvil is a narration from Allah comma, or the Allahu Anhu. And I was thinking
about this incidence, as I was thinking about this cookbook, he went to a shop, he lived in Iraq, so
he went to Syria, and he's pursuing knowledge in different parts of the world. And he says that I
went to a sham and I pray to darker eyes in the masjid and I said, hola hola. Yesterday, Lee jellies
and Salah Oh Allah facilitate for me a good companion. Let a good companion come in. So he said,
This man walks in and people go and they sit around him and he's clearly their chef. He's clearly
their scholar I'm coming is a tad Berry. He's not a Sahabi comes later on in the second generation.
		

			He says this is clearly an important man. And he said that person comes in he sits right next to me.
And I said to him, who are you? He said I'm up with that little the Allahu Tada. And I will come I
said, Subhan Allah, I asked Allah subhana wa Tada Oh Allah grant me a righteous companion and then
Allah brought you right here right next to me, one of the greatest companions of the Prophet
sallallahu. So I'm sitting right next to me in the masjid.
		

			And I'm with her that says, Where are you from?
		

			He says, I'm from Kufa in Iran. And I want to read that response to him and he says, an ISA he comes
la he was said, Allah de la ya la Mova, you didn't you have amongst you and Kufa that secret keeper
of the prophets lie some of them who no one else knew those secrets except for him. Who was he
talking about? Are they familiar man? So alkimos said yeah. And then he went on, he said, Elisa fie
community Adjara Allahu Allah, the Santa Ana de he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Yanni Mina shape en.
De Don't you have that person that lived amongst you in Iraq? That was protected from the shape on
the tongue of the prophets of Allah or any of a sudden he's talking about a martini acid while the
		

			Allahu Taala and he said yeah, and then he said, Elisa fecal Sahiwal
		

			a cure Elisa reconcilable C whack Don't you have that person amongst you? Who is the companion of
the C whack of the prophets I'm going to use to carry around the C whack of the Prophet slice on the
Slippers of the Prophet slice of them and accompany and bring his will look to Him. And that is a
beloved number suitable the Allah Hutan. So I'll come on says yes. And then he starts to ask him all
these questions about even miss Ruth and things of that sort. Now Alabama is a great student, a
great Tabori. So he clearly took advantage of those opportunities. But I was thinking about the
SubhanAllah. How many times do people not take advantage of the opportunities in their own location?
		

			And they say if I got over there, right? How many of you said if I move to Dallas, and then you
don't attend to how, because in Dallas, how many of you took advantage of the places that were
already present to you the scholarship that was there, the opportunities that were there, how many
people say if one day I get to go study overseas, if one day this presents itself to me, and
sometimes that's not taking advantage of the place that is there in front of you. Sometimes the
scholars mentioned it's not taking advantage of the times and most of those times, are the downtimes
of the Ummah, the downtimes of the Ummah, on the prophets lie some praised the work of Shaban. He
		

			said that that is a month you'll follow NASA and that people become heedless in regards to because
it's situated in this awkward place, right between the sacred month and between Ramadan. So while
everyone is thinking about Ramadan, the Saudi Hoon are already thinking about Shabbat and how they
can make the most of Shabbat. You're in one of those last times right now, by the way, you're in a
sacred month, which is the hedger going into the month of Allah Muharram. But you're in this awkward
space between our alpha and our Shula. And for some reason, most people think it's over after alpha.
You're in this time, the low times the low seasons that still have high yields, where Allah subhanaw
		

			taala has placed all these opportunities in front of you. But most people don't take advantage of
downtimes that's why the most blessed time of the day for doing that is one between our asset and
market because most people are exhausted at that time. I've caught them myself. The evening
remembrances of Mr. Google of the law and who said, most people are not thinking about God at that
time. Most people are thinking about unwinding at that time. Right? Let me get home and collapse on
the couch at that time. I don't want to think about anything else right now. But that's a time in
which the Euro is blessed today on the day of Friday. That's a time in which the Euro is bliss. It
		

			starts with the job, the hour of acceptance, we ask Allah subhanaw taala to allow us to catch it
Allah mean. And then finally, dear brothers and sisters, most of the time, we're not paying
attention to the closing gates of Jannah that are in front of us, which are these opportunities that
Allah Subhan Allah to Allah has given to us and Subhan Allah, there are two ways to look at this.
Either the gates of Jana are closing, because of a circumstance that will not be present tomorrow
because our circumstances are changing, or the means by which we have to pursue a particular date of
Jannah is not going to be there for us. So in the profit slice, I'm talking about a slight hetu
		

			welfare of health and free time being the two most neglected blessings of people. Either the
circumstances changing, or what you have to pursue is changing the means by which you have to pursue
that closing gate of jungler. There's a particular circumstance or a set of circumstances that you
have right now, that give you an opportunity to pursue Jana in very specific ways that will not be
there tomorrow. Allah knows what they are. Allah knows what circumstances will change, or what means
will change. But every single one of us has something present right now because of the stage that
they're at in life or because of what's available to them to pursue genuinely
		

			it and it's not necessarily going to be that way tomorrow. And subhanAllah you think about that with
your parents. And there are multiple narrations about this, of course, the famous narration with the
Prophets lie some sent that young men back from the battlefield to his mother. What's more exciting
than dusting your feet and getting, you know, getting into the thick of it with the prophets of
Allah Azza wa sallam and the prophets, like some imagine says go back home to your mom.
		

			Right? Go back home to your mom. And that's where Jen knows that it's at her feet. Again, it doesn't
sound as exciting. It doesn't sound as glorious, but that's what I saw last night. I'm telling a man
and his time. Go back to your mom. There's something that is special there. And subhanAllah there is
a narration there's several narrations, one of them from an how to fit or ugly, or the a lot of
times I don't know what Akima Allah in the janazah of his mother and as he was crying, the people
asked him Why are you crying? He says Lima Allah app key why should I not cry? What could overly
currently abandonment and web agenda when one of my gates agenda just closed?
		

			Another narration from say there'll be a low tide. And
		

			if one gate closes, then rushed to the other gate. You have two parents, some of us who can Allah
have lost one of those gates, others have lost to some of us don't have both of them present.
		

			And again, at what point in human history has connectivity been easier? Has it been easier to
connect to someone to FaceTime to pull someone up on a camera to call those gates of Jannah are open
to you, if they're open to you, if one has closed, go to the other, if both have closed, then spent
in their name and make you out for them. But there are opportunities that are available to you that
will not necessarily be available tomorrow. SubhanAllah. And I'll end with this comment. I never
thought that I quote Warren Buffett and a hotdog. But there's a statement that he says and I thought
it was really profound because it fits this. He says beware of the investment activity that produces
		

			applause. The great moves are usually greeted by yawns. He was talking about dunya we investments,
material investments. And you'll find this ribbon and Josie Hakimullah and other great scholars that
they compare the way that people look for the investments of this world to the way that you look for
the investments in the hereafter. Most people enter Jannah with very little fanfare. May Allah make
us from the people agenda for ordinary actions that had extraordinary rewards that they took
advantage of the majority of his agenda, the majority of the people of gentlemen
		

			and so be introspective every day not just of the sins that you committed, not just the blessings
that were available to you, but the opportunities that you have for that day may Allah subhanaw
taala allow us to take advantage of each and every single one of us of them in a way that is
pleasing to Allah I mean I'll go to all the other stuff without even looking when you start the
Muslim investor if you don't know follow him
		

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