Waleed Basyouni – Make It Happen

Waleed Basyouni
Share Page

AI: Summary ©

The speaker discusses various struggles and struggles with addiction, including struggles with alcoholism, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction, struggles with addiction,

AI: Summary ©

00:00:26 --> 00:00:28
			All praise due to Allah and His praise
		
00:00:28 --> 00:00:30
			and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet
		
00:00:30 --> 00:00:33
			Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, his family, his
		
00:00:33 --> 00:00:35
			companions and his followers until the day of
		
00:00:35 --> 00:00:35
			judgment.
		
00:00:35 --> 00:00:37
			I bear witness that Allah is the only
		
00:00:37 --> 00:00:39
			one worthy of worship and Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
		
00:00:39 --> 00:00:41
			wa sallam is last and final messenger.
		
00:00:42 --> 00:00:45
			My dear brothers and sisters, today, I would
		
00:00:45 --> 00:00:49
			like to speak to you about someone from
		
00:00:49 --> 00:00:50
			Pakistan.
		
00:00:51 --> 00:00:57
			Someone who many people don't know him much,
		
00:00:58 --> 00:01:00
			but this man have he contributed a lot.
		
00:01:00 --> 00:01:02
			But before I take you all the way
		
00:01:02 --> 00:01:05
			to Pakistan, I would like you to take
		
00:01:05 --> 00:01:06
			you to Baghdad first.
		
00:01:07 --> 00:01:09
			I would like you to take you not
		
00:01:09 --> 00:01:11
			only into Iraq, but I would like to
		
00:01:11 --> 00:01:13
			take you back on time.
		
00:01:13 --> 00:01:16
			On the time of Imam Ahmad rahimahullah ta
		
00:01:16 --> 00:01:16
			'ala.
		
00:01:17 --> 00:01:20
			Imam Ahmad rahimahullah for 20 years, he was
		
00:01:20 --> 00:01:23
			tortured by rulers.
		
00:01:23 --> 00:01:25
			He was under house arrest.
		
00:01:25 --> 00:01:26
			He was arrested.
		
00:01:27 --> 00:01:29
			He was threatened to be killed.
		
00:01:29 --> 00:01:32
			He was prosecuted unfairly.
		
00:01:32 --> 00:01:33
			He was not allowed to teach.
		
00:01:34 --> 00:01:36
			He was not allowed to speak and he
		
00:01:36 --> 00:01:37
			was unbelievable.
		
00:01:37 --> 00:01:40
			The amount of difficulties that he had to
		
00:01:40 --> 00:01:43
			deal with over the course of 20 years
		
00:01:43 --> 00:01:45
			rahimahullah ta'ala.
		
00:01:45 --> 00:01:49
			Imam Ahmad rahimahullah after that, he became alam
		
00:01:49 --> 00:01:50
			min alam ahlul sunnah.
		
00:01:50 --> 00:01:53
			One of the most recognized names to the
		
00:01:53 --> 00:01:55
			extent it was said by some of the
		
00:01:55 --> 00:01:56
			ulama.
		
00:01:56 --> 00:01:58
			Allah have saved the deen after the Prophet
		
00:01:58 --> 00:02:00
			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam twice.
		
00:02:01 --> 00:02:03
			Yawm al-ridda bi abu bakr wa yawm
		
00:02:03 --> 00:02:04
			al-mihnati bi al-imam Ahmad.
		
00:02:05 --> 00:02:06
			The day of al-ridda when people after
		
00:02:06 --> 00:02:08
			the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam passed away,
		
00:02:08 --> 00:02:11
			many Arab tribes left Islam and Abu Bakr
		
00:02:11 --> 00:02:12
			brought them back.
		
00:02:13 --> 00:02:16
			And many people have deviated from the sunnah
		
00:02:16 --> 00:02:19
			and Imam Ahmad brought them back during the
		
00:02:19 --> 00:02:20
			Abbasid times.
		
00:02:20 --> 00:02:25
			Imam Ahmad rahimahullah was watched carefully by people.
		
00:02:26 --> 00:02:28
			So one time people noticed that he always
		
00:02:28 --> 00:02:31
			mentioned a man, his name, Abu al-Haytham.
		
00:02:32 --> 00:02:33
			He would say, Allahumma ghafur li Abu al
		
00:02:33 --> 00:02:34
			-Haytham.
		
00:02:34 --> 00:02:36
			Allahumma raham Abu al-Haytham.
		
00:02:36 --> 00:02:39
			Then his son Abdullah said, Yawm, my father,
		
00:02:40 --> 00:02:42
			I always hear you talking about Abu al
		
00:02:42 --> 00:02:43
			-Haytham.
		
00:02:43 --> 00:02:44
			Who is Abu al-Haytham?
		
00:02:44 --> 00:02:45
			You always call him.
		
00:02:46 --> 00:02:49
			In your prayers, in random times, you pray
		
00:02:49 --> 00:02:50
			for him.
		
00:02:50 --> 00:02:51
			Who is Abu al-Haytham?
		
00:02:53 --> 00:02:54
			He said, my son, this is a man
		
00:02:54 --> 00:02:55
			from the Arabs.
		
00:02:55 --> 00:02:56
			I didn't even see his face.
		
00:02:58 --> 00:03:01
			This is a bad one that I didn't
		
00:03:01 --> 00:03:02
			even see his face.
		
00:03:04 --> 00:03:04
			What do you mean?
		
00:03:05 --> 00:03:07
			He said it was one of these very
		
00:03:07 --> 00:03:08
			dark nights.
		
00:03:08 --> 00:03:10
			And you know in jail, it's so dark,
		
00:03:10 --> 00:03:12
			no light, I didn't even see who was
		
00:03:12 --> 00:03:13
			there.
		
00:03:13 --> 00:03:15
			But I know in the corner, there is
		
00:03:15 --> 00:03:17
			a voice of a man who told me,
		
00:03:17 --> 00:03:19
			I am Abu al-Haytham and I'm well
		
00:03:19 --> 00:03:20
			known in this prison.
		
00:03:21 --> 00:03:24
			Because I always get caught up, he steals
		
00:03:24 --> 00:03:27
			things and you know, and do like break
		
00:03:27 --> 00:03:29
			the laws and you're always like, mashallah, and
		
00:03:29 --> 00:03:31
			you're a customer to the prison.
		
00:03:31 --> 00:03:33
			Zuboon da'im fi sujoon.
		
00:03:33 --> 00:03:36
			Everybody knows me by Abu al-Haytham.
		
00:03:37 --> 00:03:39
			And I did a lot of bad things
		
00:03:39 --> 00:03:40
			and always caught.
		
00:03:41 --> 00:03:45
			Sometimes drinking, sometimes robbing people, terrorizing people, gang,
		
00:03:45 --> 00:03:46
			whatever, you name it.
		
00:03:46 --> 00:03:49
			Aqta'u al-tariqa wa ashrabu al-khamr.
		
00:03:49 --> 00:03:53
			Wa inni julittu fi diwani ameer al-mu'mineen
		
00:03:53 --> 00:03:55
			thabamiyata ashara alfa jalda.
		
00:03:57 --> 00:03:59
			Over the course of the years, I was
		
00:03:59 --> 00:04:02
			lashed 18,000 times.
		
00:04:05 --> 00:04:07
			A lot, means he was caught a lot.
		
00:04:08 --> 00:04:11
			And he said, Ya Ahmed, I am so
		
00:04:11 --> 00:04:13
			strong, I don't bend my back.
		
00:04:13 --> 00:04:16
			I deal with these guys with full confidence.
		
00:04:16 --> 00:04:19
			And I'm upon the falsehood.
		
00:04:19 --> 00:04:20
			Wa ana ala al-baatil.
		
00:04:21 --> 00:04:25
			I didn't show them any kind of weakness.
		
00:04:26 --> 00:04:28
			And I'm upon haram.
		
00:04:28 --> 00:04:30
			I'm doing things which is wrong.
		
00:04:31 --> 00:04:34
			Ya Ahmed, you are upon the truth.
		
00:04:34 --> 00:04:37
			Ya Ahmed, you're holding up the religion.
		
00:04:38 --> 00:04:40
			You're holding up the sunnah.
		
00:04:40 --> 00:04:42
			Don't show them your weakness.
		
00:04:45 --> 00:04:46
			Be strong.
		
00:04:47 --> 00:04:48
			They're going to torture you.
		
00:04:48 --> 00:04:49
			There's jail known for that.
		
00:04:50 --> 00:04:51
			Be strong.
		
00:04:52 --> 00:04:55
			Then Imam Ahmed qaala, lakinni akhaafu al-sawt.
		
00:04:56 --> 00:04:58
			Yani al-jald akhaafu.
		
00:04:58 --> 00:05:00
			Inni maa tahammal, jismu baseet jadda ya Ahmed.
		
00:05:00 --> 00:05:03
			He said, I'm, what concerns me the most,
		
00:05:03 --> 00:05:05
			I'm worried about the lashing, the head.
		
00:05:05 --> 00:05:07
			I'm worried that I cannot take that.
		
00:05:08 --> 00:05:09
			Yani after a while, I will give up.
		
00:05:10 --> 00:05:11
			I'll tell them what they want to hear.
		
00:05:12 --> 00:05:14
			Qaala ya Ahmed, la tahhaafu al-sawt.
		
00:05:14 --> 00:05:15
			Don't worry.
		
00:05:16 --> 00:05:18
			Inni maa hiya awwalu dharbah.
		
00:05:19 --> 00:05:21
			The hardest one is the first one, or
		
00:05:21 --> 00:05:23
			maybe the first couple of ones.
		
00:05:23 --> 00:05:25
			And after that, your skin will numb.
		
00:05:28 --> 00:05:28
			Don't worry.
		
00:05:28 --> 00:05:30
			That's the easy part.
		
00:05:32 --> 00:05:36
			Yaqul Imam Ahmed rahimahullah, Fama sabbaranillahu bimithliha.
		
00:05:38 --> 00:05:42
			Imam Ahmed rahimahullah said, I did not have
		
00:05:42 --> 00:05:45
			anything have given me support like this man.
		
00:05:45 --> 00:05:47
			No one supported me like this man.
		
00:05:47 --> 00:05:48
			No one have brought me strength like this
		
00:05:48 --> 00:05:49
			man.
		
00:05:49 --> 00:05:51
			So always I remember, I am doing this
		
00:05:51 --> 00:05:52
			for the sake of Allah.
		
00:05:52 --> 00:05:54
			And he was doing it for the haram.
		
00:05:55 --> 00:05:56
			And he was patient and strong.
		
00:05:57 --> 00:05:58
			So I will be more strong.
		
00:05:59 --> 00:06:00
			It's just the first couple of head.
		
00:06:01 --> 00:06:02
			It's just the beginning.
		
00:06:02 --> 00:06:04
			And after that, it will get easier.
		
00:06:04 --> 00:06:06
			And that's how it is.
		
00:06:08 --> 00:06:13
			My brother and sisters, I'm not suggesting.
		
00:06:14 --> 00:06:16
			But if you can be an Imam Ahmed,
		
00:06:16 --> 00:06:18
			at least be a bal haythab.
		
00:06:18 --> 00:06:18
			But don't steal.
		
00:06:20 --> 00:06:21
			Don't be a thief.
		
00:06:22 --> 00:06:24
			And in other words, if you can be
		
00:06:24 --> 00:06:27
			an Imam Ahmed rahimahullah, as a famous person,
		
00:06:27 --> 00:06:30
			Imam with all this knowledge, at least be
		
00:06:30 --> 00:06:32
			that person who support.
		
00:06:33 --> 00:06:35
			And please be that person who feels that
		
00:06:35 --> 00:06:36
			I can contribute.
		
00:06:37 --> 00:06:40
			Don't ever look down upon yourself.
		
00:06:41 --> 00:06:43
			Don't think that you cannot do and you
		
00:06:43 --> 00:06:44
			cannot contribute.
		
00:06:44 --> 00:06:44
			No.
		
00:06:45 --> 00:06:47
			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the
		
00:06:47 --> 00:06:53
			Quran, وَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِّنْ آلِ فِرْعَةٌ مُؤْمِنٌ مِّنْ
		
00:06:53 --> 00:06:58
			آلِ فِرْعَةٌ يَكْتُمُوا إِيمَانًا A believing man from
		
00:06:58 --> 00:07:01
			the family of Pharaoh who concealed his faith.
		
00:07:01 --> 00:07:04
			Do you kill a man merely because he
		
00:07:04 --> 00:07:05
			says, my Lord is Allah?
		
00:07:05 --> 00:07:06
			Who's that man?
		
00:07:06 --> 00:07:07
			Nobody knows.
		
00:07:09 --> 00:07:11
			And in surah Yasin, Allah sent three messengers.
		
00:07:12 --> 00:07:14
			Yet a man came from the midtown or
		
00:07:14 --> 00:07:17
			uptown, however you want to translate it.
		
00:07:18 --> 00:07:21
			From the town and he said, he supported
		
00:07:21 --> 00:07:22
			the three messengers.
		
00:07:22 --> 00:07:23
			He didn't say, you know what, they have
		
00:07:23 --> 00:07:24
			three messengers.
		
00:07:24 --> 00:07:25
			Who needs me?
		
00:07:28 --> 00:07:30
			And now let's take you to Pakistan.
		
00:07:34 --> 00:07:38
			A man in Pakistan decided that he will
		
00:07:38 --> 00:07:42
			dedicate his wealth, his money, his time to
		
00:07:42 --> 00:07:44
			spread Al-Quran in Pakistan.
		
00:07:45 --> 00:07:47
			He said, I want to take the level
		
00:07:47 --> 00:07:48
			of teaching Quran to another level.
		
00:07:49 --> 00:07:52
			Where I go, where I find, I find
		
00:07:52 --> 00:07:54
			the Quran in the place where Quran was
		
00:07:54 --> 00:07:54
			revealed.
		
00:07:55 --> 00:07:57
			So it goes all the way to Mecca,
		
00:07:58 --> 00:08:01
			looking to get teachers from Mecca to go
		
00:08:01 --> 00:08:03
			to Pakistan and to teach Quran.
		
00:08:06 --> 00:08:08
			And he said, I will pay whatever it
		
00:08:08 --> 00:08:08
			takes.
		
00:08:08 --> 00:08:09
			I will provide whatever they want.
		
00:08:10 --> 00:08:11
			He goes to Mecca and at that time,
		
00:08:11 --> 00:08:15
			the Imam of Mecca is Shaykh Abdul Zahir
		
00:08:15 --> 00:08:17
			Al-Samih, rahimahullah, from Egypt.
		
00:08:18 --> 00:08:20
			He was the Imam of the Haram.
		
00:08:21 --> 00:08:23
			He was sick, he did not show up
		
00:08:23 --> 00:08:23
			that day.
		
00:08:23 --> 00:08:27
			So they find someone, like a random person,
		
00:08:27 --> 00:08:28
			led the salah.
		
00:08:29 --> 00:08:32
			So our man was praying behind that Imam.
		
00:08:32 --> 00:08:34
			He said his Quran was terrible.
		
00:08:36 --> 00:08:39
			He said he made so many mistakes that
		
00:08:39 --> 00:08:41
			I didn't remember praying someone, behind someone who
		
00:08:41 --> 00:08:43
			made that many mistakes.
		
00:08:44 --> 00:08:46
			I said, I came to Mecca for Quran
		
00:08:46 --> 00:08:48
			teachers and that's the kind of Quran teachers
		
00:08:48 --> 00:08:48
			they have?
		
00:08:49 --> 00:08:49
			What a shame.
		
00:08:50 --> 00:08:52
			So I'm going to start with Mecca.
		
00:08:53 --> 00:08:57
			So he decided to start a very solid
		
00:08:57 --> 00:08:59
			program to teach Quran in Mecca.
		
00:09:00 --> 00:09:02
			And he went back to Pakistan to one
		
00:09:02 --> 00:09:04
			of the Shaykhs that he knows.
		
00:09:04 --> 00:09:06
			His name is Shaykh Khalil.
		
00:09:07 --> 00:09:07
			Khalil Qari.
		
00:09:09 --> 00:09:10
			Khalil.
		
00:09:10 --> 00:09:12
			He goes to Shaykh Khalil and Shaykh Khalil
		
00:09:12 --> 00:09:14
			said, no, no, no, Mecca, I'm in Pakistan,
		
00:09:15 --> 00:09:16
			I'm not going to go to Mecca.
		
00:09:16 --> 00:09:17
			Mecca has its own.
		
00:09:17 --> 00:09:17
			He said, no.
		
00:09:18 --> 00:09:19
			I want you to go there and to
		
00:09:19 --> 00:09:20
			start teaching.
		
00:09:20 --> 00:09:24
			Such a shame that in Mecca, the land
		
00:09:24 --> 00:09:25
			of the heart, and we don't have good
		
00:09:25 --> 00:09:27
			Quran, and you are an excellent Qari.
		
00:09:27 --> 00:09:29
			You're the best Qari in the country.
		
00:09:30 --> 00:09:33
			He convinced him until he agreed.
		
00:09:34 --> 00:09:36
			And he moved him and his family to
		
00:09:36 --> 00:09:36
			Mecca.
		
00:09:37 --> 00:09:39
			And he became the Imam of a Masjid
		
00:09:39 --> 00:09:41
			by Bin Laden's family.
		
00:09:42 --> 00:09:43
			Not far away from the Haram.
		
00:09:45 --> 00:09:47
			And he had one of his students who
		
00:09:47 --> 00:09:50
			became so good and learned Quran very quickly.
		
00:09:51 --> 00:09:54
			And that man was no one other than
		
00:09:55 --> 00:09:57
			the head of all the Imams in Haram
		
00:09:57 --> 00:10:01
			later on, Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Isbail, rahimahullah ta
		
00:10:01 --> 00:10:01
			'ala.
		
00:10:01 --> 00:10:03
			Who became the head of Shu'ul al
		
00:10:03 --> 00:10:04
			-Haramain.
		
00:10:04 --> 00:10:08
			The heads of the whole entire two Haramain,
		
00:10:08 --> 00:10:11
			the Mecca and Medina, and the senior Imam
		
00:10:11 --> 00:10:11
			there.
		
00:10:12 --> 00:10:13
			One of his students, Shaykh Khalil's student.
		
00:10:14 --> 00:10:16
			He made him to him, help him to
		
00:10:16 --> 00:10:18
			memorize the Quran, to recite the Quran.
		
00:10:19 --> 00:10:22
			Then after a while, a Yemeni young man,
		
00:10:24 --> 00:10:25
			loved his recitation.
		
00:10:26 --> 00:10:29
			And that Yemeni young man, learned with the
		
00:10:29 --> 00:10:29
			Shaykh.
		
00:10:30 --> 00:10:32
			And later on, he became one of the
		
00:10:32 --> 00:10:36
			most recognized voices that ever lived salah in
		
00:10:36 --> 00:10:36
			Mecca.
		
00:10:37 --> 00:10:39
			Shaykh Ali Bajabir, rahimahullah ta'ala.
		
00:10:41 --> 00:10:43
			And one of the most incredible people in
		
00:10:43 --> 00:10:44
			memorization.
		
00:10:45 --> 00:10:47
			They said, you can't even, you can't count
		
00:10:47 --> 00:10:50
			in less than, not even five, one hand.
		
00:10:50 --> 00:10:52
			How many times he made a mistake in
		
00:10:52 --> 00:10:57
			qiraat, over the course of 40 years, of
		
00:10:57 --> 00:10:57
			his life, leading.
		
00:10:58 --> 00:11:03
			Anyway, then another family came to him, and
		
00:11:03 --> 00:11:04
			they said from Burma.
		
00:11:05 --> 00:11:08
			And they said, we have a son, who
		
00:11:08 --> 00:11:10
			we would like to invest in him.
		
00:11:10 --> 00:11:12
			And we heard he's the best Quran teacher.
		
00:11:14 --> 00:11:16
			And they brought their son to him, and
		
00:11:16 --> 00:11:17
			he studied with him.
		
00:11:18 --> 00:11:20
			Until he became one of the most recognized
		
00:11:20 --> 00:11:25
			voice, in leading salah, in Medina later on,
		
00:11:26 --> 00:11:27
			rahimahullah ta'ala.
		
00:11:28 --> 00:11:30
			And he became one of the imam of
		
00:11:30 --> 00:11:31
			Medina.
		
00:11:32 --> 00:11:36
			So you have, from his students, from his
		
00:11:36 --> 00:11:40
			students, people who led salah in Mecca, led
		
00:11:40 --> 00:11:41
			salah in Medina, Haram and Madan.
		
00:11:42 --> 00:11:44
			And thousands and thousands of imams.
		
00:11:47 --> 00:11:49
			All this by the grace of Allah subhanahu
		
00:11:49 --> 00:11:53
			wa ta'ala, and by the, also that
		
00:11:53 --> 00:11:55
			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have made that
		
00:11:55 --> 00:11:57
			man to dedicate himself to teach the Quran.
		
00:11:58 --> 00:12:00
			But what's so unique is about the man
		
00:12:00 --> 00:12:02
			who don't, we don't even know his name.
		
00:12:07 --> 00:12:09
			And when these shuyukh, Ali ibn Jabir ibn
		
00:12:09 --> 00:12:11
			Ismail and others, they talk about, who taught
		
00:12:11 --> 00:12:12
			them the Quran?
		
00:12:12 --> 00:12:14
			The Shaykh, Shaykh Khalil, from Pakistan.
		
00:12:15 --> 00:12:16
			They gave him the credit.
		
00:12:20 --> 00:12:22
			And not only that, one day he was
		
00:12:22 --> 00:12:25
			in Mecca, then they said to him, we
		
00:12:25 --> 00:12:28
			would like you to supervise the halaqat al
		
00:12:28 --> 00:12:28
			-Quran.
		
00:12:29 --> 00:12:31
			So if you ever go to Mecca, you
		
00:12:31 --> 00:12:33
			will find Quran circles in the Haram.
		
00:12:34 --> 00:12:35
			He's the one who started that.
		
00:12:35 --> 00:12:38
			And it became now, you know, official, and
		
00:12:38 --> 00:12:41
			legislated to have like an official structure.
		
00:12:42 --> 00:12:44
			And replicated in Medina.
		
00:12:45 --> 00:12:47
			And one day he visited Medina to make
		
00:12:47 --> 00:12:49
			sure that the halaqat al-Quran and the
		
00:12:49 --> 00:12:51
			circle Quran is organized.
		
00:12:51 --> 00:12:54
			And guess who heard him teaching?
		
00:12:54 --> 00:12:55
			Egyptian scholar.
		
00:12:56 --> 00:12:58
			And he said to him, that's a beautiful
		
00:12:58 --> 00:12:59
			recitation.
		
00:12:59 --> 00:13:01
			I love your Quran.
		
00:13:01 --> 00:13:03
			Then he started talking, said come with us
		
00:13:03 --> 00:13:04
			to the hotel.
		
00:13:04 --> 00:13:06
			So he take him to the hotel.
		
00:13:06 --> 00:13:07
			And he said, by the way, I didn't
		
00:13:07 --> 00:13:07
			get your name.
		
00:13:07 --> 00:13:09
			He said, my name is Muhammad Siddiq al
		
00:13:09 --> 00:13:09
			-Minshawi.
		
00:13:12 --> 00:13:15
			And he took Shaykh Khalil to the house
		
00:13:15 --> 00:13:17
			where he met Shaykh Abdul Basit and Shaykh
		
00:13:17 --> 00:13:17
			Ismail.
		
00:13:18 --> 00:13:20
			The great scholar in Egypt.
		
00:13:21 --> 00:13:22
			And he praised him.
		
00:13:26 --> 00:13:28
			Just a businessman who want to invest in
		
00:13:28 --> 00:13:29
			the right way.
		
00:13:32 --> 00:13:34
			Let's have that year, the year of 2025.
		
00:13:35 --> 00:13:35
			You know what?
		
00:13:35 --> 00:13:36
			I want to contribute.
		
00:13:37 --> 00:13:39
			I want to put the seed for something
		
00:13:39 --> 00:13:39
			good.
		
00:13:40 --> 00:13:43
			Sometimes you can reach that high goals in
		
00:13:43 --> 00:13:44
			Jannah through your deeds.
		
00:13:45 --> 00:13:47
			But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made another
		
00:13:47 --> 00:13:48
			way also.
		
00:13:48 --> 00:13:49
			Is through, you know what?
		
00:13:49 --> 00:13:50
			Helping others.
		
00:13:51 --> 00:13:52
			To help you in your akhira.
		
00:13:53 --> 00:13:55
			To be the means of goodness.
		
00:13:56 --> 00:13:58
			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us
		
00:13:58 --> 00:13:59
			among those who hear the speech and follow
		
00:13:59 --> 00:14:00
			the best of it.
		
00:14:00 --> 00:14:04
			أقول لما سمعتم أستغفر الله لي ولكم فاستغفروه
		
00:14:06 --> 00:14:08
			الحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام على من لا
		
00:14:08 --> 00:14:12
			نبيه بعده وبعد Make sure, my brothers and
		
00:14:12 --> 00:14:14
			sisters, that we be among those who make
		
00:14:14 --> 00:14:15
			things happen.
		
00:14:15 --> 00:14:18
			Not just those who watch things happening.
		
00:14:18 --> 00:14:20
			Or even worse, those who said what happened.
		
00:14:21 --> 00:14:23
			You don't want to be among those.
		
00:14:25 --> 00:14:26
			You know what?
		
00:14:27 --> 00:14:27
			Love the truth.
		
00:14:28 --> 00:14:28
			Love the khair.
		
00:14:29 --> 00:14:31
			Even if you are so deep in the
		
00:14:31 --> 00:14:31
			haram.
		
00:14:32 --> 00:14:33
			So deep in the wrong.
		
00:14:33 --> 00:14:34
			But you know what?
		
00:14:34 --> 00:14:35
			Love the khair.
		
00:14:35 --> 00:14:36
			Don't lose that love.
		
00:14:36 --> 00:14:38
			Because that's the rope that you're holding to
		
00:14:38 --> 00:14:40
			it one day and it will pull you
		
00:14:40 --> 00:14:40
			out.
		
00:14:41 --> 00:14:44
			Don't ever make doing the khair a justification
		
00:14:44 --> 00:14:46
			for you to continue doing the haram.
		
00:14:47 --> 00:14:48
			Not because you're doing the haram.
		
00:14:48 --> 00:14:50
			You said, okay, I'm going to donate a
		
00:14:50 --> 00:14:50
			thousand dollars.
		
00:14:51 --> 00:14:53
			You know, and make sure that this is,
		
00:14:53 --> 00:14:54
			you know, it's like this is a call
		
00:14:54 --> 00:14:55
			of drugs.
		
00:14:55 --> 00:14:56
			You drug yourself.
		
00:14:57 --> 00:14:59
			You think, okay, I'm doing this just to
		
00:14:59 --> 00:15:00
			avoid quitting the haram.
		
00:15:01 --> 00:15:01
			No.
		
00:15:02 --> 00:15:05
			That's some of the salaf said, quitting usury,
		
00:15:05 --> 00:15:08
			one dirham from usury, from riba, from interest,
		
00:15:08 --> 00:15:10
			better than doing 70 hajj.
		
00:15:11 --> 00:15:12
			Hajj.
		
00:15:14 --> 00:15:17
			So that's not, I'm not saying this should
		
00:15:17 --> 00:15:19
			justify continuing doing what's wrong.
		
00:15:19 --> 00:15:21
			But no, I'm trying.
		
00:15:21 --> 00:15:22
			But while I'm trying, it's not going to
		
00:15:22 --> 00:15:24
			stop me to do something good while I'm
		
00:15:24 --> 00:15:26
			even involved in something that's not right.
		
00:15:29 --> 00:15:32
			Al-Hasan was there.
		
00:15:34 --> 00:15:36
			Then Mutarrif said, give an advice to people.
		
00:15:36 --> 00:15:38
			He said, I'm worried to say something that
		
00:15:38 --> 00:15:39
			I don't practice 100%.
		
00:15:40 --> 00:15:42
			He said, rahimakallah.
		
00:15:42 --> 00:15:45
			And who does 100% of what he
		
00:15:45 --> 00:15:45
			says?
		
00:15:45 --> 00:15:46
			We all try.
		
00:15:47 --> 00:15:49
			The shaytan would love that because he will
		
00:15:49 --> 00:15:51
			make no one speak, no one advise, no
		
00:15:51 --> 00:15:52
			one participate.
		
00:15:54 --> 00:15:55
			Everybody needs support.
		
00:15:56 --> 00:15:57
			Everybody needs advice.
		
00:15:57 --> 00:15:58
			Everybody needs help.
		
00:15:58 --> 00:16:01
			Even Imam Ahmed, rahimakallah, need the help of
		
00:16:01 --> 00:16:01
			that man.
		
00:16:03 --> 00:16:04
			We need to learn how to help one
		
00:16:04 --> 00:16:07
			another, especially if those people are oppressed.
		
00:16:08 --> 00:16:10
			And with this, I want to mention at
		
00:16:10 --> 00:16:12
			the end of my khutbah, something that many
		
00:16:12 --> 00:16:14
			masajids speak about today, which is our sister
		
00:16:14 --> 00:16:17
			who's been in jail for so long.
		
00:16:18 --> 00:16:22
			And regardless of the complication of her case,
		
00:16:23 --> 00:16:26
			but the amount of injustice, she came, unfortunately,
		
00:16:26 --> 00:16:27
			in the wrong time.
		
00:16:28 --> 00:16:32
			May Allah bring relief to her soon.
		
00:16:32 --> 00:16:32
			Ameen.
		
00:16:33 --> 00:16:37
			She's miskine, I mean, no, unfortunately, there's no
		
00:16:37 --> 00:16:39
			political will behind her.
		
00:16:39 --> 00:16:41
			That's why there are so many Muslims today,
		
00:16:41 --> 00:16:44
			if you notice, have petitioned to Biden, President
		
00:16:44 --> 00:16:46
			Biden, before he leaves office, is to reduce
		
00:16:46 --> 00:16:47
			her sentence.
		
00:16:48 --> 00:16:50
			A woman reported that she was raped several
		
00:16:50 --> 00:16:55
			times, tortured, accused by things that, you know
		
00:16:55 --> 00:16:57
			what, and evidence that, I'm not going to
		
00:16:57 --> 00:17:00
			put myself on the court, place, but at
		
00:17:00 --> 00:17:01
			least showing a little bit of leniency for
		
00:17:01 --> 00:17:03
			someone who is genius.
		
00:17:04 --> 00:17:06
			And it became a big political issue.
		
00:17:08 --> 00:17:11
			There is no doubt that people like this
		
00:17:11 --> 00:17:14
			deserve leniency, deserve to be helped.
		
00:17:15 --> 00:17:17
			May Allah make it easy for her.
		
00:17:17 --> 00:17:19
			But at least knowing that name and knowing
		
00:17:19 --> 00:17:21
			that this, the complicity of her case, maybe
		
00:17:21 --> 00:17:24
			you read about it, it's something that creates
		
00:17:24 --> 00:17:25
			a level of awareness.
		
00:17:26 --> 00:17:29
			Not advocating for any kind of, a lot
		
00:17:29 --> 00:17:31
			of people, by the way, advocated violence in
		
00:17:31 --> 00:17:32
			her name, which is wrong.
		
00:17:32 --> 00:17:36
			And her own family basically criticized that.
		
00:17:37 --> 00:17:39
			If you remember not long time ago in
		
00:17:39 --> 00:17:40
			Dallas, somebody did that.
		
00:17:41 --> 00:17:43
			That's not the way to help, the way
		
00:17:43 --> 00:17:44
			to help through the legal means.
		
00:17:45 --> 00:17:47
			Insha'Allah we will put in our, you
		
00:17:47 --> 00:17:49
			know, social media also linked to ways maybe
		
00:17:49 --> 00:17:54
			you can support her through her legal counsel
		
00:17:54 --> 00:17:55
			or who, one of them lives here in
		
00:17:55 --> 00:17:57
			Houston with us.
		
00:17:58 --> 00:18:00
			In any case, my brothers and sisters, I
		
00:18:00 --> 00:18:02
			hope this khutbah inspire us to be always
		
00:18:02 --> 00:18:03
			part of goodness.
		
00:18:03 --> 00:18:05
			May Allah forgive our sins and guide us
		
00:18:05 --> 00:18:07
			to the best of speech and actions.
		
00:18:07 --> 00:18:10
			May Allah forgive our sins and guide us
		
00:18:10 --> 00:18:10
			to the best of speech and actions.