Sadullah Khan – SH Sadullah Jumuah13 01 2017
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The title "naughty days" is used as a framework for evolution and the importance of honesty and honesty in achieving success. Successes and mistakes are discussed as a result of specific actions, such as acknowledging mistakes and learning to improve. The importance of humility and self-referencing one's success is emphasized, along with the importance of celebrating one's successes and collectively celebrating one's accomplishments to be proud of their community. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of helping oneself and others to achieve their successes and striving for excellence in their behavior.
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bIllahi min ash shaytani R rajim Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Al
Hamdulillah
Al Hamdulillah he was salat wa salam ala Rasulillah he was, he
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call Allahu Taala for the Quran, Majeed De Waal for Condit Hamid,
bad bIllahi min ash shaytani R rajim. Bismillahi Rahmani Raheem.
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Ali Ali, for calling de hardeeville Mustafa sallallahu
alayhi wa sallahu alayhi wa the beta he was heavy in the Lucha
mama then a youth cleaner oh come call, so that they are rasool
Allah.
In the Name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful or praise
is due to our creator or cherish our nourishing our Sustainer we
bear witness is not worthy of worship but Allah. We bear witness
we believe in all the prophets, rebuilt as a prophet Muhammad if
not the law Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa aalihi wa sahbihi wa
Salam is the final of all the emissaries of Allah. The elders
all Ummah fall, teachers, learners, brothers and sisters, I
greet you with the Islamic universal greeting of peace. May
the peace, the mercy and the blessings of Allah be upon each
and every one here at this auspicious time of Juma Salam
aleikum wa rahmatullah heeta Allah over wabarakatuh.
The new year has begun the academic New Year.
And as we concluded, the last time I spoke two weeks or three weeks
ago,
the ending and beginning of times or cycles of times,
evokes in us a sense of reflection.
And for those who effectively reflect
this necessitates what we call Maha Sabha.
And Maha Sabha we said, implies introspection, critical self
evaluation, taking a personal inventory, self inventory, honest
self analysis
and genuine self appraisal.
If we truly value our own progress, and as we know, among
the primary objectives, of many of our Ibadat as Allah makes
reference, for example, to CRM is live in the comfort zone, in order
to attain and to taqwa, Allah consciousness and awareness of the
consequence of our deeds to piety. This is a genuine continuous
journey. And therefore, we are viscerally keen those who are on
the path
towards upliftment moral purification, self improvement,
and moral elevation. It's always a path. No one says, I have now
attained the level of Taqwa Prophets had the top row of OHS,
the highest level of Taqwa, yet they too fast, you'd need to pray
it, because it is constant process, progressing towards the
ultimate and towards the divine.
So how we may be or how strong we may be, how good we may be, or how
bad we may be.
We need to evaluate our own progress. For we are on a journey
from birth to death, from Allah we come unto Allah is our return, the
better our journey, the close our journey to more genuine infancy
our journey towards Allah.
Never mind from where we are right now but we are going towards
Inshallah, that will determine our success in the hereafter.
So if you genuinely value our progress, then recognize and
realize that the art of self criticism, or Maha Sabha is
essential
and also essential for us to learn from mistakes
and gaining an improved perspective on our lives in a
realistic manner.
As each of us look back at the past year in 2016, and consciously
ponder,
and I said, look at three critical areas. One,
what were the successes we attained in last year? What really
went well for you?
What went well upon which you can vote?
The second is our shortcomings. What mistakes did you make?
How are we going to fix it?
And finally, examine what we have learned in the process, from the
successes and mistakes.
What experience have you acquired? What would we do differently? Now?
What would we do differently now, knowing the consequence of what we
have done is an essential part of Maha Sabha knowing what you know
now, what would you do otherwise?
What should be done differently. And therefore, we said, there are
a few key points in this process of Maha Sabha. One is it requires
honesty and sincerity. Because you can't be honest, you can make
Masaba if you don't see any faults in yourself, you're not seeing
anything at all. It's only no success, nothing positive, you're
not looking properly.
If you have nothing to be grateful for, you're ungrateful. If you
think nothing went wrong, there's an error in your judgment.
Honestly, sit any class acidity. And this class is the premise and
the basis of all our activity by the way, even our prayer, our
fasting, and our dedication to the divine. Secondly, is the notion of
the Bodog of humanity, that none acknowledgement of our
limitations, irrespective of how good we are, or how good we may
think we are.
We have limitations, that we are not perfect.
And that should bring us a degree of awareness that sometimes we are
perhaps advanced in some things, but not in others is humility,
that we acknowledge our limitations.
The third point is I wish to elaborate upon towards the end,
what we call the key manager. In other words, appreciating our
successes. Some people are so negative on focusing on mistakes,
but they never see the success happen very often in our homes, a
child will get
so many A's and do so many things well, and once they don't do so
well. And the focus will be on that one time. Rather than taking
that as an opportunity to learn. How did you get here on this? How
can we improve it, but instead of judging the success, we focus on
that one failure, because we don't appreciate success. At the same
time, there ought
to be
an acknowledgement of your shortcomings to acknowledge the
fact that you have made some errors or shortcomings. And there
must be an era depicted here you must have an intention to want to
change. You can't say I know what's wrong, but I'm doing
nothing about it. I shouldn't be smoking is bad for me for cancer.
But you know what, I only smoke five a day.
can't work like that.
acknowledging your own is one thing or the shortcoming an
intention to genuinely do something about that.
And then, of course, a robbery Tassie a desire, a genuine desire,
not only intention to change, but a desire to improve.
Now, when we come to the notion of
a Terra villa,
and I wish to elaborate on those two for today,
the acknowledgement of shortcomings and the appreciating
of success,
self criticism, self appraisal, self evaluation, Maha Sabha does
not mean self contempt.
It doesn't mean self contempt. Some people think I'm very bad.
Because of this one thing.
We have to draw a careful balance between working at our self
improvement and feeling useless and worthless because of some
shortcoming.
I may not be good in tennis, but maybe I can write well.
It doesn't mean I'm hopeless. I'm only hopeless in tennis, but I
could improve.
Some people say and very often we do this, we judge the entire
character. What are referred to sometimes you know, when the
mother or the father or the parent buys the baby, the water is dirty.
So the water we don't throw the baby with the bathwater. It's only
the water is dirty.
The child is in the water is part of the debt right now. The debt
may have emanated from the child, but what she wants the child to
notice that the child is now clean. Very often we don't
distinguish that for ourselves or for our children and fougere
Once we throw out the baby with the bathwater,
that you want to throw the whole thing away.
So self quizzing doesn't mean self contempt. And we had to draw a
careful balance between working at our self improvement and feeling
useless and worthless, no one is useless, no one is worthless.
Allah says, I have unlived the progeny of Adam, every human being
is special. If you cannot see, Allah does.
Remember, when we are making a criticism of ourselves, it is of a
particular action, and not of the whole. And if you make mistakes,
no harm, because mistakes are very often essential. A central part of
learning and developing, but very important to learn from those
mistakes. As you know, Sue said, the whole minimum I didn't retain,
I believe, is never bitten from the same hole twice. If something
goes wrong, the first time you learn from it, you don't repeat
it.
So do not equate mistakes with failure.
Mistakes, makes us confront our limitations. And we all have
limitations. Some of us are more of these than others. And is no
right for us to judge other people because of their mistakes, rather
to encourage and improve them. Because there's so many faults in
the best of us, and so much goodness in the worst of us.
There's so many folks in the best of us, and so much good in the
worst of us. It does not be okay for any of us to look down upon
the rest of us. So therefore,
mistakes, makes us confront our limitations. It's meant to be
humbling, not humiliating, to be unbelief
is essential not to be humiliated. Some people confuse humility with
humiliation.
Humility is to be humble. Humiliation is to feel worthless.
And that is not Islamic.
Mistakes are consequential. We did this, we chose this. That is why
we got this result. But failure is an attitude.
Mistakes don't make you a failure. Falling down doesn't make you a
failure. Refusing to get up is an attitude that makes you a failure.
So if we learn from my experiences, that could be type
positive dimensions, even to setbacks, because much of what
we've learned in history, even in science, through experimentation,
are often done after trial and error. Even scientific knowledge
is very often based on trial and error.
But it's important for us to understand that sometimes there
are things that we can choose in our lives. And sometimes there are
difficulties and hardships. We don't choose.
Those we choose or the consequence of our choice.
I do a bad investment. I lose money. And poor this year, I did
something wrong, I lost my job, for example.
Some things we have no choice over.
But even in those circumstances is an attitude of positivity that
makes you rise above the circumstance,
I think is very important. I don't want the parents to go home and
tell their children to do what the Sheikh said, I want the parents
also to have this attitude. Because together with your
children, you can elevate them and yourself.
Never let the negativity of other people prevent you from being
positive. Never live in negativity of other people prevent you from
being positive. Be positive, is the best thing to be. I always
give example of a Sally salon, when people were cursing him and
he was
praying for them. And one of his companions said, Oh Master, they
curse you and you pray for them. He says yes, they give what they
have in their heart. I give what I have in mind. And always the
question What do you have to offer? What is in your heart limit
any obstacles between you and your path prevent you from reaching
your destination? Use of Ali's
courses in the Quran Allah says was betrayed by his brothers sold
into slavery when through tremendous trials and
tribulations. Tremendous draw interpolations, accusations
imprisonment,
eventually reached a position of great honor both politically and
religiously.
And despite the honorable things done to him by so called honorable
people.
He elevated himself above any story remains the most beautiful
story in the Quran. The story of tremendous hardship of people
trying to humiliate him trying to belittle him.
The other point I want to come to is the third one about Turkey.
Human Najah appreciating success. It's very important to appreciate
our successes not boast. Appreciate, just like
acknowledging the mistakes and be humbled in ply worthlessness or
hopelessness or humiliation. So to acknowledging your success is not
arrogance, it's acknowledgement of success.
We need to celebrate our success. We don't do this. We don't
celebrate anything anymore. Everything has become bizarre, by
the way, so I don't know. But anyway, celebrating our successes.
Otherwise we are filled with negativity the US will have
negativity.
image of what we have is we don't celebrate our community. We don't
celebrate our successes. We celebrate organizations,
institutions, we celebrate ourselves separately. It's rare
that you find that Muslims are proud of Muslims
as a whole.
And Africa Creek Hamdulillah.
My brother announced the I think Brahma announced about the results
were achieved at Islamia, the 100 other schools as well achieve
great results many of the Muslim schools be proud as a community.
The best results were achieved 30 years or so is more than I said.
It's a collective effort of people and it's a community achievement
irrespective Islamia, which as a school it made me be proud.
History is so good. Hashim amla scored under his under test. I
feel so good. And the people are saying about him his humility,
that he's a character. They speak more about his character and his
personality than they speak about his cricket. That's a big advert
that 100 of his which is called yesterday is valued more than a
million footballers today all over the world because they see a hero
with the beard with everything sits down in the water that's all
anything you know even to the details of what we consider the
output when it does it in public. It doesn't say anything never
speaks about religion. Just be who he is. It's such a good people say
that is the best even people wearing false beards they which is
normally seen as a negative thing because they are hash army.
My point I'm making is we don't seem to celebrate ourselves.
I told somebody when they mashallah, you know, last time
he's caught, so yeah, but you know what, the people selling liquor
they why is he playing cricket with this? We're focusing all the
wrong things. He's on the ground, but he shouldn't be playing there.
So when you celebrate what do you want? What can you do?
You pray in the masjid.
We don't celebrate our successes, we find nothing to celebrate. And
then we come together joyously. It's Ramadan, and then we get
Kitab Gita upon these things. We don't have things to celebrate.
We don't seem to want to celebrate if we do it internal amongst
ourselves. Be proud of Muslims. Imagine you go from Juma and you
hear something from another Masjid someone's mashallah you know what?
We don't do this. Rather Be skeptical or die means.
We don't have the collective celebration.
So
we need to learn
we can we must learn to acknowledge our successes, and
collectively celebrate our pursuance of excellence.
Whether it be academic circle will be in politics, whether it be
sports, acknowledge our successes, collectively celebrate our pursuit
of excellence. So we can be proud of our community. Because if we
are not delighted at our own achievements, who will be
human beings have been privileged but Allah subhanho wa Taala is
actually Tarquin as the best of creation, and singled out for the
Lahoma Allah Cassini maculicola. Vela, those upon Allah has
conferred a special favor the human be above and beyond all of
the creation. So knowing the potential of the human being,
Allah subhanho wa Taala commands us to strive for excellence
in the law, yet motivated, well, that's
why we did it. And therefore there was also the famous Hadith he
could often in the work at. Alchemy, say, Allah is prescribed
excellence, or goodness in whatever you do.
The notion of the axon implies a positive intention, positive
intention in doing what is good
and doing what is right. Coupled with the Excellence in the
performance of it, the intention is good and pure, the action is
good and pure. And of course, you do what you do in the best
possible manner. Because this makes us realize this notion of
exile in Islam, that whatever is good is worth doing. And whatever
is worth doing.
is worth doing well. If you are good in math, you excel in it be
the best you can be. Don't just pass be the best you can be.
Why are you shortchanging yourself, if I can be the best
soccer player be the best I can be the best artist, this read of the
Quran, business sheet, whatever it may be, be the best you can be if
you can be that be the best you can be. Why be mediocre, why
shortchange your own self, you are the only user base in the world.
Why aren't you the best that you can be?
Excellence is the reward of labor and of toil of striving for
betterment, reflecting upon where we are, and we could be. So if
each day be better,
each day be better than your day before. And every trademark be a
trademark of excellence. You see, the real notion of Exxon is not to
be better than other people.
So if you have notion of Exxon, is not to be better than other
people, the real contest is striving for excellence is within
and between yourself from where you are, to where you could be,
what you are doing, and what you are capable of doing, what you
achieve, and what you're able to achieve. The quest for excellence,
at the same time is not a quest for perfection.
Only Allah is perfect, because every time you try to be perfect,
he will fall short. And you will be disappointed.
Excellence can be attained by man.
Perfection is the domain of the Divine.
So don't be stuck judging yourself or other people
by where they are in life.
Rather, help yourself and help others to be the best that you are
they could be. This is the way of the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
He took people who were open enemies of the faith.
And he made them the best they could be. Some of them are great
people. Some of them were very, very, very shady people. But when
they came in the company, the prophet, he elevated them to a
level that became models for others.
Said Abu Bakar Elon said one thing when it comes down to us,
abominable high,
alpha had to be taught.
Well, it's the referral is mostly what do I
want?
To know because the Lord said, for other signs of goodness, for other
signs of goodness, by chance in trying, if you have less than us,
size, we have good qualities of all good qualities,
or is expression of the goodness of your humaneness. When you have
these four things, what are they
to be time rejoice at those who are repenting, don't look at the
fault or whatever, repenting repent painting now, ALLAH forgive
them, why are you judging?
Rejoice at the repentance of people.
And people who are
deviating from guidance, pray for the guidance of for those who are
sinful.
Pray for those who are selling.
Make dua for those
who have turned their back on the right way and now turning towards
the right way.
seek forgiveness for those who sin
and help those who are doing good.
Repeat.
Rejoice at the dependents of those who repent, because repenting
after sin, but rejoice at the repentance, not focusing on the
sin.
Pray for the guidance of one Western debt to the right after
having been on the wrong path. See forgiveness for those who are
still perhaps involved in sin and help them out of it. And engage
yourself with assisting those who are busy doing good.
May Allah subhanaw taala grant and as the year begins for our
students and for the work people I'd work and parents, that we
elevate ourselves and let's be Airbnb of success. We also will
announce it. Sister Jose hydrophobia Jacobs, the mother of
one of the people involved in our sports here coaching by the
faculty Jacobs
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area from Freiburg we are neighbors, and many people from
Africa and we're here, welcome. You must come pass Freiburg to
come here by the way. So we welcome you make dua, Allah
subhanaw, taala, Grant * Fozia Nakamura and Jana, and to all
those who have passed on knockin Angelina, and those will ever
grant them recovery. Whatever is best for them. Akula Callie either
has to feel a lot of Salam Alikum