Salim Morsy – IMRI Jumuah Prayer 1112019
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The man, Frank, is the most valuable land in the world and the land of death is the graveyard. Planting trees for five years is important and not taking anyone's position or opinion to one's benefit. The importance of learning from experiences and working hard to achieve the highest level in ridiculousity is emphasized. The speaker also announces a new registration for young children and provides information on different classes and registration requirements for the Christian it'll be online.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
today
I will be talking about
a topic
most of us,
we did not realize
the significance
of the topic until we died.
The topic that I would like to encourage
all of us
to do our best
before death
is.
The man, his name,
Todd Henry,
he's French,
and he published his
book
and translated his book to several languages.
One of them is in English.
The idea of the book,
and this is, you know, just an invitation
for all of you if you have a
chance to go back to read this book.
It's very good book
to encourage all of us to do something
good before we die.
The name of the book
is
Die
Empty.
Means,
if you have
some ideas,
great ideas,
and try to make them reality
before you die.
Because if you die and hope
a great ideas in your heart or your
mind,
you know, it will be an easy food
for the worms of the land
in your grave.
He mentioned in the introduction of his book,
he attend a meeting
for a very big company,
and
the leader, he was asking a question
for
the employees
with him.
What is the most vulnerable
land in the world?
And the people tried to answer
based on their knowledge and their experience.
Some of them, they said,
the Times Square in Manhattan,
the most expensive land.
Some of them, they said, the oil
fields in Middle East.
And some of them, they said, the gold
land in North Africa.
And he remained silent for a while and
he
for a while, and he said, you are
wrong.
All of you are wrong.
And they were waiting for his answer.
What is the most valuable
land in the world?
And I'm asking you, oh my brother and
sisters today,
what is
the most expensive land in your mind?
Which one?
And he answered the question and he said,
the most
valuable
land in the world, it is
the graveyard.
It's not the physical.
When
you buy your graveyard,
it cost maybe a 1000, 2 1000, $5,000.
No. No. No. It's not this idea.
He said, and he explained
because
graveyard
has a lot
of great ideas.
It's owners.
They did not share with anyone and they
died.
And they hold their great ideas
and they put it into the grave. No
one will benefit himself
from their ideas.
And this is the idea.
When I when I was looking at the
book, subhanahu wa'am, somebody
preferred to me to read.
And I said, we have in our religion
more than this book
but we did not pay attention for that.
When we looked at the hadith of prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, when he
mentioned
that hadith,
if the final hours
comes
and in the hand of anyone of you,
a fasilah.
Fasile means the pump cutting
or the seedling,
the small
tree of pump tree.
If anyone
has
a seedling in his hand
and he has a chance
to
to plant it,
and he should plant it, even if you
have the signs of hereafter
already arrived.
This is the hadith of Rasulullah
encourage all Muslims
to do their best even for the last
moment in their life.
And somebody will say, you know, I
why prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam choose,
you know, the small bamboo tree,
or the palm
cutting or the seedling
because
pumper tree needs at least 5 years
to get benefit from from it.
When you plant palm tree, the small one,
you have to wait for 5 years to
get benefit, to get dates from this palm
tree.
And prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he choose
the most difficult moment for everybody
when the signs of hereafter already
comes.
And you have something in your hand, you
have to finish
it. Yeah. When you see
the sky in different shape,
when you see stars
in different shape, when you see sun, when
you see
every when you see art art it's shaking
around you, and you have the fasila, you
have something in your in your hand to
do,
Don't quit.
You have to make it first.
Don't care about
the signs around you, the sign signs of
hereafter.
And this is the idea.
Your job
or whatever you are doing in your life,
this is the this is the seedling that
Allah gave you in your hand.
Do it.
And when we look at
the verse in the Quran
that Allah
revealed in the time of pilgrimage,
the last pilgrimage that prophet Muhammad
performed
in 10th of hijrah.
And Ambar did a verse, a unique verse,
verse number 4 in Surat Al Makhidah.
In this day,
have I perfected
your religion for you,
completed my favor upon you,
and
have chosen for you Islam
as
the religion for you.
In that moment,
some companions they said, Alhamdulillah,
Allah completed our religion for us.
And some companions were very sad because they
noticed
that this is the end of the life
for Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam because he
completed his mission.
No need for him to be alive among
his companions
anymore.
He did his best
means
no need for me to stay
or to remain among you.
I have to go.
I have to leave.
And for all of us,
even prophet Muhammad
he has no chance to remain in this
temporary life. And no one among us has
a chance to remain in this life. Means
we have to go.
We have to leave one day, one moment.
And we need to ask ourselves
what did we do
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
when we meet with Him in the day
of judgement.
We are
so many.
Alhamdulillah.
But
we are not able to influence the people
around us.
Because
we count ourselves as a Muslims,
but we did not take from Islam except
its name its name only.
And we need to really pay attention for
that.
When we have
any
a good idea,
we should not hold it in our mind
or our hearts.
We have to
express
these ideas
and let everybody benefit from them
before we die. And this is the title
of the book,
Die
Empty.
Don't leave any good ideas in your hand
or your mind or your heart before you
die.
Express all them
toward others.
If you are scholar, teach others.
If you are good doctor, help others.
If you are good engineer,
help others.
If you are good businessman,
help others in your field. This is the
the whole idea.
To be positive,
to help others as much as you can.
Don't say, I will not get benefit from
this palm tree because
at least needs 5 years.
And
you are looking at the signs of hereafter
around you.
When
in the salah who push it out,
subhanallah, he doesn't care about the sky, just
has something
terrible around him.
But he is
focusing
to do what we
should do.
Don't quit.
And don't say,
you know, no one will get benefit from
it. They need 5 years to get dates
from this tree. Just
leave it and concentrate
how to pray, how to ask Allah for
forgiveness.
No. Prophet Muhammad was
very clear
to plant it.
If you have a chance to plant it
And he didn't say just throw it away
and concentrate
for supplication with Allah No. He said
The word of means
to plant it in very perfect way
and to
look deeply how did you plant it.
SubhanAllah.
Even with this hassles around that, no problem.
Because when you do something,
in the beginning your intention was for the
sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Not to
benefit yourself or even to benefit your family.
No.
You did what you have done for the
sake of Allah, aasawwajal, and you got your
reward already.
What are you what what are you looking
for more than the reward of Allah? Nothing.
It then do it
in perfect way.
Sayyidna Umar one day, he passed by an
old man,
And he left his land
empty.
And he asked, why you leave your your
land empty? Why you did not plant some
trees in? He said, oh, Amir Abu Muni.
I'm very old man. Why I have to
do that? I'm I'm very
near to death.
And he taught him to listen, and this
is for all of us.
You see the trees that we are benefit
ourselves today,
somebody did for us.
Someone did for us so many years ago
and we have to do the same. We
have to be thankful,
grateful to Allah and
we have to do the same thing.
Like we learned the Quran.
Who told us the Quran?
So many mashel before us.
And we have to dig to give the
same way. We have to teach somebody else
will come after us and will remember us
in his supplications
or her supplication.
We learn
our religion, who taught us our religion. Somebody
told us our religion, and we have to
teach others
about our religion. And this is the idea,
to have the complete certainty
in of benefit.
Don't say, I will not have a chance
to benefit myself or my family.
You will be stingy if you are thinking
in this
way.
You you have to open up
to benefit everybody around you.
And the the boundary tree, it's not only
for Muslims.
It's not only for mankind.
It's for every everyone.
And the prophet Muhammad mentioned,
whosoever
plants any kind of trees,
Whatever the birds or the animals or anyone
will benefit himself
from the tree that you planted,
you will have worked for that.
And it will get it will open our
mind up
What we have to do,
you know. Every single one of us
has a field,
has
he is
expert
in his field.
The one who can recite Quran correctly,
he's expert one in his field. The one
who can
do business
perfectly,
he is expert one in his field. The
one who is able to teach.
The one who is able to help out.
You know,
we will not
lose the opportunity
as much as we can.
Do your best
in any field that you feel that
you are expert in this world.
And don't find excuse for yourself.
Whatever you will do
and
Allah will help you out for anyone will
imitate you after that to share in their
word until the day of judgment.
Whosoever
helps others
to do goodness,
he or she will have the same reward
until the day of judgement.
And to be fair,
when you do something good to benefit your
community,
to benefit
your society,
you should not regret for any good deed
that you have done for the sake of
Allah because Allah will count it for you
and you have to be proud of yourself.
And all the prophets
of Allah when
they came,
they they tried to help their societies
out.
I try to to help you out
as much as I can.
No. We're not talking about how to pray,
how to worship Allah
This is, you know, there is no doubt
for that.
I'm talking about something else will make us
closer to Allah
What is the benefit that people will have
from your side?
When you worship Allah, when you pray, this
is for yourself. You are good between you
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But what is
the benefit that the society will have from
your side?
You are good in
in any
field
and you have to express
your experience
and your ideas
toward others.
Like
Tom Henry
explained,
don't die
full of your best work.
Don't die
unless if you express all the good ideas
that you have in your mind,
even if you are not able to complete
it, but at least
share it with others.
Let them
take advantage after you
die.
And this is the the the whole idea
for today.
If we die today,
I'm asking myself and my brothers and sisters,
if we die today, do
you think we will be proud of ourselves?
What did we do
for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala?
If they carry our jenazah on their shoulders
and the people talking about us today,
they will say, may Allah have mercy with
them. I'm very sure they will say that.
But what
else? Did he or she
make something
good for the society,
for mankind,
for Muslim community, or not?
We need to ask ourselves.
This is the moment.
We need to wake up
and ask ourselves
what did we do for the sake of
Allah to help our society, for our community.
When we die,
whatever we have in our mind, in our
heart,
you know, it will be an easy food
for the worms
in our graves,
and we will regret.
But in that time,
no one will listen to our regrets.
Just that I I try to make
clear idea for all of us
to do something
for yourself, for your community, for your society,
to be proud of of your action in
front of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Die empty.
Do not leave any a single idea in
your mind
not to share with others. Just
express it.
Help others to learn from your experience
and do something and they will remember you
in their supplication
after we died. May Allah
help all of us out to understand our
mission in this life and to work hard
to achieve the highest level in paradise
with our beloved prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa
sallam and his companions.
There is separation
between the way of hereafter and the way
of worldly life.
But in our religion,
2 of them going together.
If you do any single deed
and you have intention
to be rewarded
for your action
in hereafter,
Allah will reward you.
And this is amazing religion.
The two ways,
the way of hereafter,
the way, and the way of worldly life,
both of them they're going together
in the same direction.
And this is the idea
what when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned.
You have to do whatever you will do
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
for hereafter.
And don't forget your share of the worldly
life.
And this is very nice way. When I
know that I will be rewarded for any
any kind of deed I will do in
this life, I will do it. There is
no doubt for that. I will not hesitate
to do it.
And this is out of Allah's mercy for
all of us to encourage ourselves. And whatever
we will do in this life, as intention
that we are doing that for the sake
of Allah, Allah will accept it and Allah
will reward us for this good deeds.
When
when I was reading this book and I
I
talk to myself,
we have to be proud of what
Prophet Muhammad told us.
And have he rejected us
to work hard
even for the last moment in our life?
If you have a chance
to plant, you know, the seedling or the
palm cutting,
the small pamper tree,
don't hesitate.
No need
for prophet Muhammad saasalam to live among people
anymore.
Allah
completed his religion,
and this is the idea.
Just I have very quick announcement
related to Quran Institute.
Some people were asking,
what is Quran Institute?
Quran Institute located
at the masjid at Taqim
and the Musabaneer
every Sunday
and every Wednesday.
And
we will have a new registration
if you are still interested
to,
register
your children or yourself.
We will have a new registration,
inshallah.
We have 3 different
classes for the Quran Institute,
or you can say in Yulok for Quran
Institute.
We have the same program
that we had before,
just
to recite in front of the imam, to
take your time, 5 minutes, 10 minutes. This
is the rule of program.
We will add our program for accepting Surah,
and the requirement for this class only to
be able to recite by yourself
front or
hand.
There is no limit for the age. In
any age, they can join,
inshallah, this class. Say, for example, we might
have Surat Gazeem or Surat Al Kah or
any other surah, just, you know, for the
suggestions from from your side inshallah.
And the 3rd class for the Quran,
it will be for young children
4 years old,
10, 6 years old.
4 alfa'ida nuramiyyah
or alphabet.
How to pronounce
each letter with the correct pronunciation.
This is very important for our children,
young
children. We have to start from scratch with
them before somebody
change their mind in into other direction. Just
from 4 year old
until 6 years old, this is for Al
Qaeda and Nuraniya
to help him out to pronounce Al Qaba'
in Arabic language with the correct,
pronunciation, insha'Allah.
If you are interested,
you can go online and you sign or
register your name, your children,
and it will be in the in the
website for the masjid inshallah, and
choose the time. And we might have one
day
during the week for Skype, for FaceTime.
If you are not able to come to
the masjid, you know, I will try to
help the community out. You can stay home
and take your time sign sign your time.
It will be on Tuesday, insha Allah,
for a certain time. You can pick up
your time and sign your name and your
time on buying.
I try to help everybody out as much
as I can before I die. And this
is, you know, the mission for today to
do your best
for your field, for your, you know,
experience that you have in your life.
Don't forget to pick up your sundoches in
Jamba.
It's, over there in between 2 doors. You
know, you can donate $5 or whatever you
you able to donate in sha'ba.
Even if there is no one over there,
there is a box mixed with the sandwiches.
Take your and
put your donation.