The speakers discuss the importance of benchmarking oneself and finding one's own success in relation to sex, sex advice, and sex advice advice. They also touch on the history of Islam and the rise of ambition for leadership. High ambition for Islam leads to feelings of pride and joy, and mental health is emphasized. The speakers emphasize the importance of learning and practicing to attain higher positions in life, creating a positive mindset for achieving higher positions, and learning and practicing to attain higher positions.
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Now in working towards making this aspirations a reality, we also see that people are of two types.
We have those who as I said, they talk, but they don't walk the talk, they say a lot of things, we
need to start this and we need to do that. And we need to be concerned. And we need to, and we need
to, we need to, but the lack of action,
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the action is delayed from that which they say verbally, it's a type of erasure.
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Right? separation. And
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and then we have a second group of people
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who don't speak, but they actions speak for them.
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They prove that they high net worth individuals, right, you always say we need to become high net
worth, who are the high net worth individuals, let's get the Forbes magazine and look at the high
net worth individuals. Now with Islam, we have a different take on what on the definition of being a
high net worth individual is. So we have those that are high net worth individuals, their actions
speak louder than words. And we see them making a difference. We see we feel their aspirations, they
are people who see and they're not just around, wasting time utilizing the resources of this dunya
for other people to see that there are people who do the see
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the Actions speak louder than words. And this was prevalent in the time of Muhammad Ali Abdullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
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these people existed for Take, for example, the Bedouin, who went to Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam and said Dr. Mohammed, Mohammed, give me from this wealth that Allah has given you.
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For this wealth is a loss and not your father's.
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This is a level of aspiration. And in retrospect, we have probably
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even Cavalia slim
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Fabiola, one who went to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam tells him,
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ask,
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what do you need ask?
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And he says, I do have a request. And my request is that I seek your companionship in La ilaha illa
Allah, look at this aspiration. I seek your companionship in general Hillman.
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Allahu Akbar.
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And then considerable hora de la
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Abu huraira, who was from the people of Safa, he was impoverished those people who didn't have
shelter, they didn't have clothes, they didn't have food. This was who was from this group of
people. They would stay in mosquito larvae and they would seek and worship
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once the booty comes to Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam and he's distributing this booty, and
people are asking and asking and asking and robiola who is watching and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam knows that this is a person in need. So he turns to Abu Dhabi and says, ask, what do you
need and I will give it to you.
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Look at high aspirations. Look at aspirations that transcend the sphere of this dunya La ilaha
illAllah abou hora de la and says, Oh prophet of Allah, I do have a request, and I will ask you for
something and I will only ask you for one thing.
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So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, what is it that you that you need? What is it that
you desire? Subhan Allah, He says, I asked you to teach me that which Allah subhanho wa Taala taught
here.
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La ilaha illa Allah imagine this.
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He was indirectly asking for gentlemen, because he knew that
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he was under Sallam said, When Salah caparica el tema Sufi, salallahu alaihe salam.
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He knew that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught that a person who treads the path of
knowledge Allah will make his path to gender easier. So he's asking the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam for Jana but via the means that we'll get him there. Teach me that which Allah subhanho wa
Taala taught you.
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And we know that Abu huraira robiola one was a pillar in terms of the Sunnah during the era of the
Sahaba and he narrated over 6000 ha de la ilaha illa 6000 narrations Never mind being a student he
became a teacher of the oma. Allah chose him to be a protector of the Sunnah of the Allahu Akbar
Allah subhana wa Jalla gathers with
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me.
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Once a group of boys came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and they were asking somebody
wanted intercession. Somebody wanted some wealth.
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Somebody wanted Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to assist them in a difficulty that they were
going through. And in this group, there was one point. And
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he was in love after dealing with this group turns to this boy and says, What do you need? He says,
and he took a marine benei webinar. He didn't want to speak in front of
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in front of the gathering. He says, I want a private sitting in discussion with you. There's
something that I need, but it's private. So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam after helping the
group
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goes on team and say, What is it that you require? Is which what is the amenity that you need.
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And this young boy tells Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
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I want your companionship in gender SubhanAllah. This was amongst the youth. I'm sharing an example
from a Sahabi with sibiya. And now here, a young boy.
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They had high aspirations. This was what was inculcated within them when they said La ilaha illa
Allah, Muhammad Rasul Allah.
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So we need to ponder over these examples. My dear brothers and sisters, we need to ask ourselves,
where are we, from these examples? Let's benchmark ourselves. Where is our bar setup?
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How are we with regards to those who walked this earth?
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And were praised by Allah subhanho wa Taala?
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Surely they have to be our benchmark. If we want to know whether we are part goodness or not, we
have to benchmark ourselves against them.
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We need to look at what their lives were about and ask ourselves are we upon the same peril or not?
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And when we ponder over this, it makes us understand the reality of the person that we ask about
sometimes that supernova, that person in the middle of winter, he can get up and go to the masjid
for Salah.
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Even though he didn't hear the other,
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he goes to the masjid for Salah. Now we understand why he does so. And based on what we have said we
understand the person who is quick to engage in Herrera who does not look after the boundaries of
Allah subhanho wa Taala
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who does not even stay away from the super hotties. He doesn't mind engaging in the Shabbat those
gray areas. in Bristol we discussed the boubakeur of the Allah one and Abubakar rhodiola. One once
he had the habit of always asking his
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slave, whenever you prepared a meal, he asked him, Where did you from which money did you prepare
this meal?
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And one day he forgot. And he began eating. And the slave then said but you didn't ask me
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the foundation of this meal that you have you drawn to the background behind it sababa Where did you
get this meal from? Where did you get the money to prepare this for? And he mentioned that he got it
from a practice that he did during the days of ignorance when he practiced
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fortune telling and this is how he practiced fortune telling
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forecasting matters of the hype.
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But is Abu Bakr rhodiola do not only does he stop eating what's in front of him, he puts his finger
in his mouth and vomits that which he consumed Subhan Allah. This is high aspirations. We understand
why he did so. Even though you can leave alone,
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as an Astra was that which is beyond us are of your caliber
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and from them is the ignorant person who didn't know
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but he Abubakar removes that which he consumed this his high aspirations are servants of Allah and
our children of Adam.
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We always have two types of people and know that
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the first is a person
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who lives for the dunya his aspirations are the dunya.
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His aspirations are the dunya. The lower the closer, this means this well, and the second person is
the one who aspires
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and Allah subhanho wa Taala tells us that these are the two types of people for Allah subhanho wa
Taala as admin, may you read Tony
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Soprano, Hannah law, two types of people. And when we think of this is a story comes to mind. And
that's the story of Omar Abdul Aziz. Do we know Omar Abdul Aziz was?
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No some of us do. Shall we discuss a little bit? Omar Abdullah Aziz Z's brothers and sisters was
from the men that work this earth. He wasn't a man he was from the men we describe him as reject.
Allah subhanho wa Taala blessed him with a short but effective healer.
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And he was so successful it is khilafah that
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the scholars said he was from Oh, he was the fifth, rightly guided caliphs. We know about the four
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Abubakar man Wiley
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is was from the American ambulance he is in around two and a half years this was the length of his
healer.
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We can't even say he was just a successful leader, because that would be taking away from that which
he deserves. Today leaders lead one country. Abdelaziz had 40 states and
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40 States under him, and he led it with justice and diligence and progress and security and safety.
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La ilaha illAllah Ahmed Abdul Aziz, it is said that, before he took a position of authority to tell
his wife,
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Fatima, he used to tell her that I aspire to have a position of authority. And when he attained this
position of authority, he said to her, I aspire
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to become the Amir of the Muslims to become a killer
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because aspirations constantly growing, and he achieved it. And when he became the successful
leader, he turned to his wife and he tells her I aspire projector.
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Look at high aspirations, high aspirations, and definitely he was from the caliber that could take
leadership. We discussed this yesterday, not everybody is cut out to be a leader. The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam refused a Buddha to take a position of authority because he was a soft
person. But Omar Aziz was a different person, he was capable of doing it.
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And honorable man with honorable aspirations, and honorable man, but honorable aspirations. And you
know what, on a side note, we learned two things from this, firstly, that
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Islam makes it possible for us to utilize matters of this dunya for the benefit of our hereafter.
Many of us say, you know, high aspirations means I need to become a chef.
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Or I need to be I need to work in the Dow, I need to have to have a direct function in the Dow. This
is the only way I can have high aspirations. I can't become a doctor and a lawyer. I can't be a
professional runner, for example, that's not this doesn't stop you from having high aspirations for
Islam gives you the opportunity to make all these acts an act of worship. So whether it be going to
school becomes an act of worship today. We say the Wednesday of the week, if you ask any invoice is
Monday was the best day of the week, Friday, but any young boy even the adults because of work,
right? We say what's the best day of the week? Friday? Why? Because the next day, there's no school.
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It was the worst day Sunday. Why? Because the next day is Monday.
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What is going to school was a means of building your agenda. And going to work was a means of
building your agenda. And for our mothers at home, cooking for your families was a means of building
your agenda. and nurturing the home was a means of building your agenda. But if it became that,
could you become depressed? No. The worst day of the week would be Friday because the next day
there's no score.
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Obviously, I'm talking in context of the country we live in Otherwise, the best day of the week is
Friday afternoon to mental
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illness mood tomorrow, the best day upon which the sun rises is that you have given as in a Muslim,
and the report Bible.
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So what we saying is, imagine if all these normalities of our daily life became an act of worship
became a means of building our agenda became a means of making our skills of good deeds heavy on the
day of PR.
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This is an opportunity Sam gives us if you make your work for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala we
learned this from
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us was asked how did you achieve all this in such a short amount of time? How? And he answered this
question he said, there was nothing that I did except I did it for the sake of Allah subhanho wa
Taala nothing.
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When he aspired to take a position of authority, it wasn't for his sake, it is for the sake of
Allah. And then when he aspired to become the leader of the Muslims, it wasn't for himself. It was
for Allah and when he aspired to ascertain genda it was for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala. He
made his life a walk, and endowment, he gave it
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for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala. This is how you and I can also make our lives have higher
aspirations than you in your daily life. You can be a high Aspire, few say I'm going to work to earn
financial standing,
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so that I can pay zakat and I can increase further
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so that I can assist Omar Mohammed sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Isn't this a high aspiration
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we as women Muslim is going to work for the sake of the weekend.
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And the practices that we see prevalent during the weekend, low aspiration, a person who goes to
study medicine. So I can represent this field in the Mohammed sallallahu alayhi wasallam
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aspire to achieve for the sake of Allah, and every day of your life becomes an alibi, I sitting here
as well, if we came here for the sake of a mindset event,
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and I always try to remind the audience at the beginning of every speech, that make sure you're not
here to learn. Now, somebody might say, hold on a second, I came with my book and my pen Mashallah
people are writing How can it be that you're telling us don't come to learn? Yes. Don't come to them
come to worship Allah subhanho wa Taala. The House of Worship is through education, the learning
will come with the cola, Coca Cola, being conscious of Allah subhanho wa Taala and I'm most proud of
who and I will teach you
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fix that intention. Become a high aspira in your intention.
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Make it Sony fala subhanho wa Taala. Love La Ilaha Illa. Allah love it, that there is no one worthy
of worship besides Allah, everything I do is for the sake of Allah. before I say anything, I would
ask myself, is it beloved to Allah? If so, I will do it. If not, I will stay away from it.
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This is what high aspiration refers to. And as we discuss this story of Omar, even Abdul Aziz, and I
have come to mind and that is the i O Allah subhanho wa Taala says tilka de
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la la Vina la Yuri Luna, Luna, fill out the
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will of
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Allah subhanho wa Taala says this. This
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is for those who did not live their life in this world, to attain higher positions in this world for
themselves and create fifth land facade in the land. And the good ending is for those that are God
conscious
