Wisam Sharieff – Quranic Supplications
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The importance of taking action and embracing one's own feelings is emphasized in various conversations and videos. The concept of "Grammatic" and "Grammatic" are also discussed, as well as the negative impact of the Quran on people's emotions and behavior. The importance of being true to oneself and avoiding limiting what one language can use is emphasized, along with the use of "hasana." The importance of treating one's body with respect and avoiding constantly revisiting one's emotions is also emphasized. The importance of learning to read and write the Quran and setting goals for oneself is also emphasized.AI: Transcript ©
Friends, you came for the masjid Friday night
halaqa.
I've been anticipating this talk for 3 weeks.
So can we kind of balance the emotion
here?
I'm ready to explode
with content and information.
You are here for some Sheikh Khalaqa.
I could do tilawa for 25 minutes, you
would still be happy.
Right? I could just bismillah Allahu Akbar for
25 minutes. On the other side, I'm like
exploding to talk about something of great content.
So
this is the way I I tell my
kids, don't eat till you're full, eat till
you're satisfied. Okay? Have you ever your mom
ever asked you, are you full? It's It's
not a great question.
Some of you are like, no, your mom
loves you. I promise. Insha Allah. She will
hug you insha Allah.
Ladies, your mom ever asked you if you
were full?
Yeah. Ask your kids, are you satisfied?
So I'm going to speak in segments components.
Some of what I say will be really
motivational to you. Eat it up. Other parts,
you're gonna wonder, what time the conference start
tomorrow?
Did I Netflix that thing properly?
Will I be able to watch that? How
many TikToks fit in 1 hour?
Those thoughts, quads, they come to your mind,
right? You're like, if I'm in a khutba,
how many tiktoks have I missed?
If I'm leaning against the wall at the
beginning of the talk,
will I be lying down
when I finish?
As these thoughts come to your mind and
as you thought think these things,
compartmentalize.
So would you consider taking your phone out
to write something? Would you consider looking for
a piece of paper so we could jot
down thoughts?
Or you're all imam Bukhari
and you're gonna memorize everything I say.
Figure it out. You figure it out. You're
imam Bukhari, you're gonna memorize everything I say.
Okay. By the looks of it.
Yeah. Right? Don't you feel like, why doesn't
he say some nice words? Look, I could
recite and wallahi you'll see here for 25
minutes. I wanna do something more. So if
you're ready by Show of hands. How many
people came to Jumah Khutba today here?
Okay. So
only reason I asked that friends thank you.
Only and how many people did not Jumah
here?
Okay. Fair. I only because then I will
make references from the Khutba and that so
let me start afresh.
If we could
if you could title today, friends, I know
we live in Canada but it's not that
cold. The second thing,
men lean against the wall and women hug
themselves.
Ladies,
someone will hug you at home. Can you
sit up properly? Because do you what's happening
to your heart when you do this? Brothers,
why you no hug your lady? She gotta
hug herself. What's wrong with you? Hug your
lady.
Brothers, posture of dignity, open heart.
Sisters, open to receive.
Number 1 of the topic today, Quranic transformation.
Quran transformation.
How many people have heard a story about
a Sahabi who were salaam alaykum salaam, about
a Sahabi who heard a single verse and
his whole life changed?
Sahabi So can anyone give me an example?
Just call it out. Yes ma'am. Okay. Umar
radiAllahuwan,
alhaqqatumalhaqqawamadarakamalhaqqah.
One of the verses, early verses he heard
changed his life.
His his sister,
right, was reading Surataha
and then she hit him and then Alkama
Oh no, Khabab radiAllahu an came out of
the closet and he was like, how could
you hit your sister? And then he read
Quran. Okay, one person. Who's another Sahabi radhiallahu
ta'ala
who heard the Quran is what impacted?
Like, okay.
Sheikh, we need to do a little bit
of Sunday school work. We're gonna do a
little bit Sunday work. Correct?
I told them, but maybe Abu Bakr. Abu
Bakr radhiallahu ta'ala was inspired.
You could say he was inspired
because his friend as his friendship, because of
Muhammad Rasoolullah.
Friends,
were most of the companions,
inspired by Quran? Would you agree?
Yes.
This is gonna be a long
night.
Hi, Canada.
My name's Wissam.
As you can tell from the intro, I
like Quran a lot.
Like a lot a lot. And I like
to talk about Quran and I can look
from the look of your face that you're
you're waiting for something. I ain't gonna give
you nothing till you give me something.
Okay. So give me a little bit.
Sisters, was there a woman Sahabiya greatly affected
by Quran? Could you know her name?
You can tell me any Sahabiya's name
that they were affected by they heard the
Quran, they were affected. Who was a great
Sahabiya? Who was a grammarian?
She was a amazing,
more than poet but a grammarian.
She had 5 sons.
They all passed in a single battle. Sheikha
was who I'm talking about. It's the coolest
girl name in the world.
Khansa.
Khansa Radiallahu
Ta'ala Anha. We can write down. We can
write down. Khansa.
I know you're like, my Okay. Khansa
had 5 sons. Please look these names up.
I'm not here to give that talk.
Okay. She was affected by Quran.
Anybody else?
Okay.
Friends,
did the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
tell
the companions
in Madinah when the eye, yasanunakaaniiluqamriwalmaisid
about drinking and alcohol,
Friends, work with me here. 10 years of
Makkan Quran changed their heart. So then when
God said, no no more pouring it out
for your homies, what did the Sahaba do?
They poured it all out. They they poured
the whole bottle out. Right?
Doesn't that show an effect?
Why do we like converts and revert so
much?
Why? Yeah. Oh.
Because you're like, oh, they got to do
all that stuff.
Right? You all got that. They got to
do all that stuff and they're still Muslim?
I wanna make a point here and I
hope we can start the discussion from here.
How many person know someone who's a convert
or revert or someone in this room who
had a friend born Muslim,
but maybe had a rougher went through a
rougher time? Friends, maybe a a sister friend
who didn't cover or didn't do something, and
then she kinda turned around. How many people
know somebody?
No? Okay. Yes. Sir, when you or anybody
convert or revert in here who can say
all the things that we're attracted to,
all those intoxicating things, those hip, those thighs,
they hypnotize
all of that stuff.
Alright? Okay. I had to No. For the
phraseology,
all of that together I'm asking you, did
that satisfy them? Did any rapper say, Oh,
Mashallah.
I had enough.
I had enough drugs, mashallah.
I had enough alcohol and enough zina, mashallah.
Now I'm full, I'm satisfied. No, really. Did
they ever say that?
Did you ever come to a Jummah and
say, You Allah.
You came to a Jummah and you're like,
that's why I do this. That's why I
do this. Ladies, have you ever been in
a dua
in a scenario where you didn't know what
the dua was happen what was happening, but
there was what's called
collective euphoria.
Has anyone ever experienced this?
You Okay. I'll try to take you there.
You might hear,
In that moment, you don't know exact translation?
Amu, you do.
Some of you do. But in that moment
did you say, Allah I love you too.
Oh Allah everything's perfect. Have you been in
a group, in a in a space, in
a khudba,
in a in a any lecture? And have
you felt a collective ecstasy?
Yes or no? You you're Canadians. I won't
make you say the sound. Can you raise
your hand? No sounds for you guys. Yes.
You felt it, right, Amo? You've been in
Or maybe the sheikh said,
And what will the crowd say?
No. They'll say, Amin. You all read the
wrong cue.
Sunday school, can we try this again? When
I say hasana, you say Amin. Friend, we're
the Sunday school teachers here. We need to
talk afterwards.
Amin.
Now you don't I'm not teaching to say
Amin. I'm saying you've been in that scenario,
and the sheikh has been at the end
or imam's who days is saying,
my little mistakes, my big mistakes, and you're
in it. You're saying Amin.
Is that feeling real?
It's more real than the bottom of all
the intoxications.
It's more real than all the fun of
the internet
and all the songs and all the entertainment.
And all my gamers, when you're done with
Modern Warfare 37, guess what? There's only the
next one.
And NBA 2k97
is gonna became 2k37.
Shaquille will be flying around.
So at what point FIFA is gonna become
the next FIFA? It's gonna keep happening. Right,
friends?
It's great games. They're great games. They're fun,
but the next one is just gonna come
out.
And you know what? The Quran is gonna
be the same exact same edition. There's no
new Ramadan edition Quran.
So today, that's my little introduction. Can we
please begin? For those of you who have
a device, let's quickly write something down so
you can leave. Otherwise, we'll be running into
salatulmagrib
just listening to motivation.
So if you have a moment, let's the
first word at the top of your page,
what is that brothers and sisters? What is
that word being written? Someone might be calling
in the corridor if you wanna see. What
was the word we wrote at the top?
Quranic.
Oh, my. This is gonna be long.
No. It's okay. No. No. Don't humor me.
I'll just sit here for another 2 minutes.
No. No. No. Take your time. Friends, what
are the two words written at the top
of your page?
Quranic transformation. This is okay. I've had dental
work before so it's okay. I know this
feeling. I've had dental work before so I
know this feeling. Let's try together. Under our
Quranic transformation, we're gonna write down 3 questions.
The 3 questions and I'm gonna ask us
will per begin today.
The first question is, who is Allah azzawajal?
I'll I'll I'll move right back. Thank you.
Yeah.
Allah azzawajal,
who is and what is your definition of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? What is your name
for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Who is Allah?
Yes, sir.
Allah is your creator. Anybody else?
Allah is razaq. Allah is razaq. So can
we go down this rabbit hole? What did
he use to describe Allah?
He used one of the names. He used
one of the names. So I'm gonna say
this whole category of asma'l and sifaat, love
it. We can ask Allah through this. How
many of us can ask Allah through a
name that nobody else knows?
How many people been sliding while they're driving?
You got stuck in a scenario when you're
driving, dad? You've been there, right? In that
moment you say to God, it's not a
name,
it's, oh, I save me now. Only you
know that and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows
that. How many of us have a time,
a name with
that nobody else knows?
Can you can you wait for a moment?
Have you been in a scenario that only
you and Allah know about? Hands up.
Some of you some of you lying to
yourself in the masjid on a Friday. That's
One more time.
You've been in a scenario, I'm a You've
been there. Nobody else knows. Allah knows, you
know, and you're like,
that's that's the name of Allah that I
want you to take.
Yes. I want Now, don't tell me, Samarazaq,
rahman, rahim.
Oh, Allah.
That's it. You know. I know. Thank you,
Allah.
Do you have So now I would like
you to begin. Number 1, who is Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to you? I don't wanna
take too much time in this. I'll give
you a small scenario. When I was a
young boy, we were playing outside the Masjid
and the game was who could throw the
rock the highest.
One bro threw the rock. I was like,
wow.
That's really high. Yes. It ends the way
you think it ends. 2nd boy threw the
rock. I looked up. I was like, yo,
that's higher than him.
As soon as I said he threw it
higher than him, you picked up the same.
He threw the rock up and I said,
I can't even see it anymore. And it
fell through this side of my face.
So this eyeball, this Isn't it cool though?
Pause. Could you tell
that this side of my face No. I
think that's the coolest part of this story
that you can't tell. They did surgery and
had to cut a piece of my face
open to remove a rock. Thank you, Allah.
Now, pause.
My mother is the director of the hospital.
On the way to the hospital, I can
hear the woman who I've never heard sweat.
Never heard. My mom was like, I don't
know if we'll be able to keep his
eye. She's not talking to me, she's talking
to someone else. I was like, keep his
eye. I didn't even know what that meant.
I was like, how do you keep an
eye?
She's like, I don't know if we'll be
able to keep this eye. So I get
to the hospital and I remember doctor Famoso.
I walked in, my mom said, thank you
so much.
What's your name? Omar. Omar. Thank you so
much. I'll see you later.
My mom said my eye looked like a
boiled tomato.
That's too graphic but hey.
And in that moment, my mom had to
go to do her mom things and I
laid in a room. I had to sleep
in a chair for 6 months because my
eyeball was not connected.
That first day in the hospital,
I said Allah,
the God of my eye.
It's Wissam,
the boy with one eye.
And I need your help to see through
this eye.
If you understood that one sentence,
those are your 3 questions.
Who is Allah? Who are you? And what
is your request?
Ameen.
Friends, I don't know if I'll make this
awkward but if you're in the masjid, can
we not use our recording devices in here?
I asked you to use your phone to
write, but please don't record because they already
got this thing going. So it's kinda awkward.
Right? It's just weird. You might catch me
at a bad angle.
Okay? Thank you. Number 1 Can you tell
me the 3 questions? What
is Who is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
you specifically? So start with Asma'aw Sifaat.
Start
with the easy ones. Allah is rahman. Can
you give me one name of Allah that
is specific for you, that works for you?
Yes sir.
Arrahman,
top name. From Rahma,
you can get all the other names. Arrahim?
Arrahim. Yes, sir. Arheem. Arheem. Friends,
so far we've got Arheman and Rahim. We're
doing fantastic.
Come on, friends. Open the list. Give me
a few. Al kahar.
Al
kadr. Al kadr.
Al Ghafar. Al Ghafar. Fair. I like the
sound. Yeah. Say say it. Surah.
Al Qudus. Yes, sir.
Allah Can anyone tell me your translation for
samad? No. And don't use a word you
can't spell.
What's the translation for samad in English English?
Yes. Absolute.
I think
absolute.
It's timeless, eternal, all inside Allah is absolute.
But I can't spell that. So that's okay.
Continue. One more. I'm looking for one. It
is Allah Azzawajal's
love language to us. How many?
From the root word wood.
Does Allah
say to you, I love you in the
Quran? This is not a trick question. Does
Allah say, I love you?
Work with me. Does He? Because you're gonna
say, wallahihibul
mumsinin. How do you know you're a musineen?
Does Allah say he loves you in the
Quran? Not a trick question. I don't see
it.
I don't see Allah say, I love you.
Except does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give you
things?
So very quickly jot this down in your
notes. There are 5 love languages. Your quick
hands if you heard this. Brothers, you definitely
haven't heard this. Alright.
The sheikh heard it. Brothers, you ever heard
this? Five love languages. Can we write it
quickly? Sis
Yes. 1st love language? Words of affirmation. Words
of affirmation.
Brother, speaking of words we can't spell.
Word words of affirmation.
Brothers, when you were growing up, can you
raise your hand if you didn't hear great
job, excellent,
you're beautiful frequently?
If you live in a brown household or
any northern African country, you have never heard
any words of compliment. If your parents are
Egyptian,
Somali,
Ethiopian,
Indian, Pakistani,
Afghani
from Madinatmas.
Come on, friends. Did you grow up with
words of affirmation? How many people did?
Yeah. You're like,
5050.
Some of us grew up. Friends,
I think you're you're telling yourself a story
and I like it. Keep telling yourself that
story. What's the second love language? Sir, I
can't do this. You have to Gift. Touch.
Touch. Gifts.
Quality time. Quality time. To
say go? I don't know. My husband might
want a little bit more soft time, but
okay. You're going to Atlanta. 1.
Atlanta. I wanna go to Atlanta too.
Friends,
touch, gifts,
acts of service. So I'm gonna put that
in order.
Brothers, if you had to pick a love
language, how do you feel loved?
Can you think about this for a moment?
If you can answer this, you can answer
how you wanna love your Lord. Brothers, out
of 5 things,
nice words, gifts,
touch,
acts of service like could be anything.
Or quality time. What do you think your
love language is?
Ladies, you take your time on this. Brothers,
can anyone say?
Gifts? Excellent.
Acts of service? Excellent. Knowing your love language
is gonna mean a lot because you might
say to Allah, Allah love me.
And you're not getting what you want. Brothers,
quality time, is it acts of service?
Is it touch?
Yes, brother?
What is that affirmation?
That's a genius. Who said the words of
affirmation?
Word Doesn't it feel great to hear
you're wonderful,
you're amazing,
I'm so glad you came to Jum'ah today,
and I'm so glad you came to the
masjid.
These are words of affirmation. They seem impossible.
Now, when I say that to that young
man, how many of you say my father
would never say that?
I love my dad but
my dad brown.
Okay? That's a full sentence. That is a
full sentence. My dad is brown.
That should mean enough to you. So brothers,
can you take can you say here in
the Masjid with your heart, what is one
love language that you would find?
Gifts. Gifts? Brothers, I'm looking for some Amu
to say with
Would you like a gift one brother said
gifts. Adults, one thing.
What's
your love language? Do you think?
Do you like quality time? Do you like
touch gentlemen around the pole? What would you
say, gentlemen?
It makes for such a better talk
than me telling you things.
And you're like, man, we call this guy
here to talk, not make us talk.
Ladies, acts, what are your love languages? Acts
of service. Acts of service. Words of service.
Words of affirmation. Ladies, be truthful now. There's
one that you need.
Can you do more than 1? Quality time.
Oh, yes. You can have more than 1.
You're allowed to have the This is Allah.
Now he asked a question. I wanna take
this question to our Lord. Can we have
more than one live language with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala?
Yes.
Yes, please.
Don't limit your Lord, oh Allah. I wanna
know that I'm loved.
Please, can you repeat
a dua with me?
Can you say the word l a w?
Please say law.
Law.
Do I have to say it in French
or something? Just one more. Can you please
say, Obey the law. Obey the law. Okay,
I'm preparing. This is what it's gonna be
like tomorrow. I'm ready.
And
the same strength of obey the law.
I wish I could be that happy.
Oh Allah, she's just excited.
Which means, Oh Allah, love me. How do
you know Allah would love you?
I know Allah loves me because the people
who love Allah love me. So when you're
like, Oh, I don't know if Allah loves
me. Look around you. Look around you.
You beautiful people who love Allah,
people who wanna read the book of Allah,
that's who surrounding you.
And what's the last line of this dua?
How many people have never
said, oh Allah love me? Can you just
quickly raise your hand? Friends, can I please
can you say this real quick? Yeah. Y'all
can make my be okay. How many people
have never said, oh Allah love me?
Okay. Thank you, sir. Can you now answer
how many people have said, oh Allah don't
throw me in *?
Please, please, please, please, please. Please, just just
really quick though. I'm a do that one
more time.
O source of love, who made fuzzy bunnies?
How many times have you asked him to
love you? 0? How many people who've never
said, Allah love me? Now,
oh Allah, please don't throw me in *
forever, Allah my dear naminan nah. How many
people?
Okay. So bear with me. My father passed
3 years ago. I'm gonna have a real
conversation with you.
If I only went to my father and
said, please don't burn me, please don't smack
me, please don't hate me dad, please don't
hit me.
Okay, Wissam.
Okay? I won't hit you.
Then the next time I see my dad,
please don't smack me, please don't burn me,
please don't hate me.
Okay, Wissam,
I won't hurt you, my love.
Next time I see my
dad, please don't burn me. Please don't hate
me. Please don't smack me.
What kind of opinion do I have of
my dad?
What kind of relationship have I built with
my dad?
So things just got real real right now.
And everyone's like, when is the funny part?
Come back. The funny part's coming.
But that relationship we've built with Allah, please
don't send me to *, please don't send
me to *.
It's hurtful because you never said, Oh, Allah
love me.
And in that one moment you might have
said, I don't know if Allah loves me.
So today, oh Allah love me. And as
a sign that you love me,
make the people who love you love me.
Make the people who shine and make Islam
like, Yeah. Make it real. Oh Allah, make
them love me. And then most importantly, O
Allah, make me love the speech and actions
that's gonna bring me closest to your love.
Amin?
Okay. Someone's gonna leave the talk saying he
gave something about loving Allah. I haven't even
started my talk. I'm shoveling the snow right
now.
Would you now write,
your three words? Who is Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala to you? I described you can jot
it down.
In my example, Allah was the God of
my right eye.
I was the little boy who didn't have
a right eye.
And my hasana
Okay. Real quick. How many people have read
the dua, rabanaatina
fiduniyahasana?
Thank you. Okay. Real talk. Can we say
How many people have read it a 100
times? Yeah. For real. Real talk. 100 times.
Well, please be truthful.
How many people have never defined hasana?
How many people have never said what's hasana?
You pull up to the Tim Hortons and
you're like, let me just like
let me get something good. What does hasana
mean?
Something
good?
So you said 200 times, let me get
a you want a burger?
Do you want chicken?
200 times. You wanna shake?
And now I know you're saying, but Allah
knows. Yes. I know Allah knows what your
hasana is, but my love have you defined
what your hasana is? Hard pause.
How many people we're gonna do an example
together. Because if I just say Amin to
your hasanah
right now, tonight, for example,
how many people
are allowed to eat ice cream?
How many people are allowed to eat ice
cream? You you understand? Some folks are not.
You're allowed to. Right? So right now, I'm
gonna give you an example.
Oh, God of all cows.
Give us
an amazing village ice cream sundae. Ami.
Real talk. How many people can't say Amin
to that dua because it would hurt their
stomach?
Right?
Brother, you you got this down you got
this one down.
Ladies, real talk. Is
this brother's hasanah
my hasanah?
No, it's not. It is indigestion,
and it is deplorable.
That's what I'm gonna tell you. So, yes,
Wa'alaikum Assalam. The collective hasanah is wonderful. How
many people tonight decide to say, I'm gonna
pick a hasana for me.
When I was blind from one eye, what
was hasana for me?
Fast forward 20 years, I was in a
wheelchair for 2 years, never to walk again.
Tabar kala. Thank you. These are real, alhamdulillah,
buoyant.
But the real question is when I was
in the wheelchair and my mother, the director
of the hospital is saying, you'll never walk
again. And I said to my mom, you're
my mom.
You're supposed to say everything's gonna be okay.
She said, I'm a doctor.
I can't tell you a lie that you're
gonna get your hips back.
So I said, Rabbanah,
oh God of my legs,
atina.
I got my eye back but it's that
same kid with no legs, with no hips.
It's called avascular necrosis.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, O Allah
hasanah to me would be leading salah to
tarawih again.
Because when I got in the wheelchair,
no one want it. And I hear could
hear the whispers. We don't wanna pray behind
the crippling mom.
It hurt. It hurt. It hurt my finger.
Oh, you could you could dance on my
pain a little bit. It's okay.
Take your time to say,
that hurt a lot. You take away the
legs of a basketball player, that hurts. You
take away the legs of an imam,
hurts even more. What was hasana to me
in the wheelchair?
What you guys took for granted everyday?
Walking over. Walking on your legs. Hasana means
what's good to you right now.
So could you? Could you define right now?
How many people do have a physical pain
in their body?
Well, alhamdulillah, no. You do? Anyone have a
hasanah. May, oh God of inflammation,
who knows inflammation,
remove inflammation from those who have it, hasana.
How many people physical ailment in their body?
Hasana. Oh Allah,
can anyone What do you call if I
have a
If if I'm diagnosed in the hospital, I
get diagnosed with a what?
It starts with a d.
Diagnosis.
So I'm gonna die. Disease.
Okay.
Canada, we're gonna spend a whole weekend together.
We're gonna play charades.
We're gonna do we're gonna we're gonna have
a campfire.
You need to be loved.
Okay. So we're gonna come back and do
this. Can you say that again, please?
Disease. Can you please say the word disease?
Disease.
Can you say the word slowly with me?
Disease.
Disease.
Every disease
is a disease in the body.
And I'm telling you as someone terminally
said you're gonna die 4 times.
So if you Yeah. Some of you are
like, Yo, he's got bars. No, my friend.
Disease. That's really simple.
So as salah comes upon us,
I'm asking you to do 2 things.
Identify
any disease in your body. Any. If it
has a name or it doesn't have a
name.
Say, oh Allah, hasanah to me
is that this ease.
It's tend to ease. Okay. Number 2. How
many people
are in some type of financial slavery?
Debt. This word is called debt.
Oh, I can imagine that's not a Canadian
thing. Okay? Fair. Thank you. The rest of
them, masjid may be lying.
Masjid may be lying.
Yeah. Yeah. I can see it. I'll ask
one more time.
How many of us have death?
Thank you.
I had to ask 2 times. I feel
like your father right now. Why do I
have to ask 2? I asked the first
time. You didn't answer.
Thank you. Friends, are you willing to say
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, I want pay
my debt down to 0? Could you say
Give all of us Don't just pray for
you, all of us who are in debt.
What does hasana mean to you bro? That
every check becomes gravy.
Every check that comes in isn't for a
mortgage, or for a loan, or for a
school. Every check that comes in you're like,
Oh,
my earnings.
Friends, I'm not speaking to you as the
imam who said everything's haram. I'm the imam
with a 6 who had a 6 figure
debt and I used one phrase if you
wanna write it down. Oh Allah, starve my
debt.
Oh Allah, starve my debt. And that 6
figure debt became 0 and I'd live debt
free.
Hasana means something. Number 3.
How many of you don't know 10 people
who are you gonna live next to in
paradise?
One more time.
How many of you don't know 10 people
who will live next to you in paradise?
Okay.
Can I ask a real question? How many
of you never contemplated you were going to
paradise? You're like 10 people. How
many of us have not contemplated
because you are Right? You're invested in your
sins. Rather you don't know what's on my
phone.
I don't wanna know what's on your phone.
Right? I didn't ask you what's on your
phone. Why you got to talk about your
phone?
Are you greater in ability to sin or
does Allah have greater ability to forgive?
So then stop. Stop worshiping your sins.
Stop worshiping your sins and worship Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. So in the idea
family Yeah. Thank you. Sorry. They're recording it
up here. So ladies, would you
I anticipate
Sheikh Naved. If you look at my written
list,
he's on my list of the 10 people
who will live next to me in paradise.
I don't know. He's a pretty amazing guy.
Do you know 10 people you will live
next to in paradise?
Do you have 10 relationships?
How many people
friends here? Any people friends?
Man,
loyalty.
I'm talking about none of y'all are friends?
I'm a start a fight with 1 of
you and then just start beating. You got
no friends.
Any
fam, are you related to each other? Thank
you. Sir, you got a friend here? You
got a friend here? You good dad? You
got a friend?
Man, this was not the hardest question tonight.
Freddie, I swear to God, this was not
the hardest question tonight. Ladies, y'all got friends
here?
Yeah. We're all Muslim sisters of Islam.
Hey. Ho. Are you got a friend? Is
she a friend? Okay.
Even friends in Islam. I don't even know
what my question was at this point.
Hang on. I was gonna back this up.
Do you and do you treat your guard
your friend as if you'll live next to
him in paradise?
That
wasn't a mushy gushy statement for real.
Do you? I have a friend. If I
called him now, I believe, Sheikh, if I
picked up the phone,
he would begin to swear and cuss. And
that's his love language to me.
That's his
anywhere I am, I'll say, I'm in the
Masjid. Stop. That's just maybe his stutter, his
tourettes.
I think he's going to Jannah.
That's my Anyone else have a friend with
a little bit of a potty mouth?
Are you the friend with the potty mouth?
Nah. Nah. Some of you are like, well,
I think I'm that friend. Friend,
just imagine And I remember what my teacher
said to me. He said, Speak in a
way that you could meet the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wa sama or here's the real story.
And I'm gonna pause because salah will come.
This occurrence happened.
And the idea of will you ever meet
the people that you'll be next to in
paradise.
I have to censor this story so adults
just use your brains.
Amu Usam
went through a phase.
In New York, in the nights, men would
gather at cafes to do what men do
at cafes in the evening time. This is
a true story.
I came out of one of these establishment.
Smelling of the fragrance of that establishment,
and probably double apple.
And I came out of this establishment and
I walked down the street in New York
and this is a real occurrence.
It is 1:30, 2 o'clock in the morning.
You're probably gonna have to bleep this one
out.
And in front of Masid Iman at the
end of a street that has 14 such
lounges good good good good good good good
good good good good good good good good
good good good good good good good good
good good good good good good good good
good good good good good good good good
good good good good good good good good
good good good good good good good good
good good
wallahi imam su days of the haram got
out of a Lincoln Town car at 1
o'clock in the morning and was standing in
front of me and said
because I had just taken a summer class
where he had lectured about Surah Al Asr.
Imam Sudeis
embraced me
and I died.
Yes. I think every one of you knows
exactly I died 5 times. Came back. Came
back. I was like, no. Take me. They're
like, no. God stay. I was like, no,
no, I'm so ready.
I could die. And he remembered, he put
his hands, and he could smell me.
He pulled me to the front of the
masjid, and I prayed tajjud next to imam
su days that whole night.
Friends, friends
who will look out for you, who will
stop I'm sorry, generation I missed you. Imam
Sudeis is now the governor of Makkah. Makkah,
mayor or governor? He's like some He's like
beyond
haram imam. He's now the governor. So the
governor of the town of Mecca found me
joyriding at 1 o'clock in the morning and
said, why don't you bring the Hajjat together?
And I was like,
I'm gonna die.
Who are your friends?
And are those the friends that will take
you by the hand and take you to
the masjid
no matter what you did or smell like?
Are those your friends?
As salatulmagrib
still has time.
I'm now because I'm just prepping them.
I'm asking you to write down what is
your hasana.
If you could take a moment
If your hasana is you want imam today
to pull you out of a hukla, you
stop that. You stop that dua.
You make a better dua right now.
Make a dua that you think is impossible.
Whether it is losing your eyeball,
being in a wheelchair for 2 years, or
having the imam of the haram. Because I
was sitting there doing the thing that we
do at night, and I said, if this
is wrong, Allah you'll tell me it's wrong.
So the imam of the aram was like,
hey, wasam, maybe not for you.
And I know all of you are like,
so Sheikh, your opinion is haram?
Stop it.
Stop it.
So we're gonna write something down here to
define hasana.
Are you gonna take
are you gonna look for
a fatwa or are you gonna look for
what gives you taqwa? Just write it down
for me right now. Because a lot of
us are afraid to make a dua because
I prayed for Fatima and she never came.
Oh, my love, there's a lot of other
things to make dua for. I mean, leave
Fatima alone.
Do you wanna do you wanna fatwa? Can
we all raise our hand here? Has anyone
shopped
for a, is it halal or haram?
Bro, it'll destroy you. Bro, is it halal
or haram?
Well, one minority opinion
has this one off that if you do
this and stand on one foot, then in
the 3rd moon on 6th date might not
be haram.
Okay. You Jews.
You Jews. How many of us have gone?
Thank you, sir. The rest of them are
lying in the masjid will be
yes, sir. You've done it. We've done it.
And the rest are lying all around you,
and they're looking at you too. They're looking
at you lying people.
One more time.
How many people were like, this is not
kosher?
And you're like, yeah, but it's Alikita.
And you went shopping for Alikita
but I'm not talking about eating outside. I'm
talking about you were going fatwa shopping.
Mashallah.
Alright?
And it was good. Now real question.
Did it end up in taqwa?
Did it end up waking you up for
tahajjud?
But I'm texting her for dawah.
Yeehaw.
How did that go? How did that dawah
go?
Increased your iman?
Definitely. Okay. Insha'Allah. So we're gonna take a
moment on this and I would like you
to be able to ask yourself these questions
now.
Who is Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala?
Who are you to Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala?
Every time I was stuck somewhere in a
sin, if I stopped in that sin and
said, I'm just a filthy pervert. I'm a
bad person. I'm a I'm a this. I'm
a that. I'm fat. I'm ugly. I'm not
good enough. I can't do this, I can't
do that. You'll just be stuck there.
And you'll be like everyone else stuck in
that darkness. So I'm asking you right now,
is your hasana
your sin?
Is your greatest hasana? Oh Allah, how many
people in this room Just raise your hand
and we'll get through this very quickly. How
many people have promised Allah, I promise I'll
never do it again, and then did it
again.
And then
after they did it again, I swear to
God I'll never do it again. How could
I have lied to you, Allah? Oh my
God, I'm going to * because I lied
to Allah, and then promised it again. And
then did it again.
So are you ever gonna be perfect?
There's no point where you are gonna be
perfect.
You have made promises to Allah
but now you're going to say, oh Allah,
I'm still stuck in this sayyid state.
I'm gonna take 50 people who are stuck
here.
I'm gonna take them with me.
How many of you are, Oh my God.
I'm such a sinner. I can't believe I
do this at night. I can't believe I
posted that un honest and honestly, I can't
believe I looked at that. I'm so alone
and shaytan wants you to stay in the
dark. How many people feel in the dark
and can only accept there are 50 other
people in the dark with you?
That you are surrounded by people in that
sin, but he's an imam, but he prays
5 times a day. How many of us
are not asking Allah because our hasana
We're We can't ask from Allah because of
a sin.
Quickly? Yes.
Okay. No. That is not true. You can.
You can. But how many of us feel
like, oh, I didn't do this thing so
I cannot.
All of you look at me and say,
Sheikh, make dua for me. Why?
Make dua for yourself.
Like I'll make a nice dua. The best
dua for you, it comes from who?
I need to hear that from you. Oh
no,
Hey, hey.
Who's gonna make a dua for you better
than you?
Your mama.
Your mama gonna make a dua for you,
but that don't matter. Who gonna make dua?
Friends, how many you gonna come tell me
your deepest alimun bidat is sudur?
And I'll be sitting there like, Yo, Allah.
He needs you.
Or do you wanna go to Allah and
say, Allah you know exactly what's in my
heart?
Come on friends. So how many people right
now
are not defining their hasana? Oh, Allah, help
me cure cancer. Oh, Allah, help me end
water pollution. Why?
Because I'm a sinner.
Because I'm stuck in my sin.
So break the sin.
Oh Allah, I am going to stop this
sin when I help 50 other people get
out of it. If I have negative thinking,
I'm not only gonna stop thinking negatively,
I'm going to encourage the folks around me
to live in a positive way. Brothers, you
have a simple habit that you do or
you engage in or that you scroll.
I'm not gonna do it. And I'm not
I'm gonna make sure that the people around
me are not about that, Ami.
One word. Have you ever heard any met
anyone in sobriety?
Adult word. Anybody? I know you're Muslims. It's
hard. No? I wish you did.
I wish more Muslims met people in sobriety,
and I'll wait.
Sheikh, I went to an addiction clinic for
1 week in Colorado, and I lived with
them. They took my phone.
They had you have to sleep, with they
locked they put a tape on your door
to, and it was
it felt so good
because they they watch you.
And all of us are like, Allah is
watching you.
And then we kinda like turn
Hey, do you want it again?
But when there's someone actually watching you shake
and you see other people struggling with addiction,
it was the most
moments of my of that whole time were
in that, sir, turn over your phone. Sir,
your your phone privileges are done. Sir, please
unlock your phone so we can see what
you're looking at. And there's yes, yes, yes.
Friends, I'm asking you to look for sobriety.
We are all addicted to something.
And all of us don't like that word.
So today in the word hasanah,
oh Allah, if Islam is so wonderful, which
it is,
give me hasanah.
If you could raise your hand if you
have defined what hasanah is a little bit
more today.
Would anyone be able to call out their
hasanah?
We'll go The fine print. Hasanah right off
the bat is,
health. No physical ailments in your body. Dis
ease.
Can you think about one word? Body of
Jannah. Let's see if this works. I'm gonna
bounce this off Sheikh, bounce this off you
guys.
In paradise,
which body will you inhabit? Okay. On the
day of judgment, how many people have heard,
your mouth will be sealed and your body
parts will talk. You've
heard
this. How many people
feel like your body's gonna tell on you?
And this makes you dislike your body. So
how many of you also believe your body's
only gonna say the bad stuff?
Most of us believe that.
But we've been hating this body because we
think it's gonna tell on us.
And that's why you treat your body and
you scratch the donut and eat it with
hatred.
Yeah. Ladies, why do you scratch pastries? Are
you trying to show like some hatred towards
the pastry? Ladies, raise your hand if you
have scratched a donut. Go ahead. Yes, you
have. You are. But every time I walk
by there's a pastry on the Just scratch
it. What does that mean you didn't eat
it? Sorry, got a little too personal there.
Ladies, you know you scratch pastries. You know
you do. Hi,
brothers.
We'll talk about this later.
How many of you see yourself
interacting and saying, Oh Allah,
I want hasanah
but I wanna know who I am to
you.
Before we leave this, I want you to
write down what is hasana to you.
I want you to pick that thing.
Pick the single thing that is hasanah to
you. So we said body. How many of
us can acknowledge this will be the body
of Jannah?
Okay. How many of you wanna look like
you in paradise?
Easy question. How many of you wanna look
like yourself in paradise?
Yeah. I wake up like this every day.
Mashallah. For real.
Right? Ladies, real talk. How many of you
wanna look like you? Like for real. Kill
it. Slay your Jannah version. Okay. Do it.
A lot of you don't love your body,
and you don't allow it to help you
in your ibadah. It's like you hate it.
Can't do this. This is haram. This is
haram. This is haram.
But if you treat your body with more
respect, it will give you that back. Number
2. How many of us wanna be debt
free?
That's your hasana, sir. May you live
every paycheck,
gravy. Every paycheck,
can you imagine that?
Yeah, papa, can we do this? Of course.
Papa, can we do Yeah, of course. Every
Because you work for that. When you pay
off a debt, you're like, I'm just turning
the wheel.
Yeah. I don't see anything in my hand.
And last but not least, in a world
of suicides and sorry for trigger words,
for people
deleting themselves,
do you surround yourself with at least 5
people who remind yourself of Jannah?
You have anyone around you who talks about
Jannah?
All of you think about what if I
go to *, this is what it will
look like. If you have never,
imagined Jannah for longer than 20 seconds, please
raise your hand.
If you never sat down and said, you
have to think about it. How can I
like I know what a Lamborghini is? I
know so I know so if you say,
if you do this, Usam, you'll get this.
If I never thought of Jannah,
and all I know of Jannah is 70,000
huars, 70,000 huars.
It doesn't that's not my kick. I'm not
Okay, great. Go sew a bag or something.
I'm not interested. I'm interested in other parts
of paradise, but maybe you never thought of
them.
So as we start for salah today,
would you begin with the option that jannah
is real? And that paradise is the destination?
And that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala didn't create
you in a time of absolute chaos
so that on the day of judgment, you
get there and Allah goes,
Your mustache was too short. Go to *.
But that's exactly how you're living with Allah
So you're living the Allah Subhanahu Wa Jalal
is gonna catch me on my pants for
too long.
And so before we conclude, I ask you
to write 3 lists and tomorrow we'll open
them up again. In order to define who
is Allah Azawajal, in order to define who
you are to God, in order to define
what is hasanah,
Please write down 3 categories. Number 1, can
you cut say it back to me? Experiences
Alright. No, no, no, no. It's almost over.
I think I can. If I just speak
for 12 more minutes, I can go home.
Places of growth and contribution.
Experiences, places of growth, contribution.
One more story,
that I wish you all could take, and
I I wish that you would make the
connection here.
What is something that you would like to
experience brothers? Is there a thing you would
like to experience?
Yes. Experiences, places of growth, and contributions.
Anyone wanna memorize the whole Quran?
Sir, that's a goal.
Tell me what the experience of memorizing the
Quran would feel like. Okay? So goal is
want to memorize the Quran. Do you know
when you set a goal
on an MRI,
your brain fires
for tools and how to fix things.
If you say, oh Allah, I'll I wish
I could enter an asr prayer,
say, ghayl madhu bi alayhim walabbalin
and just start reciting and not know where
I was gonna stop. How many people wanna
experience that?
Okay. Maybe someone's like, I don't know.
I will give you one word and then
we'll conclude. Sheikh during Asher Akirath, we were
studying.
Our Sheikh came out of the room and
in front of us on a clock because
we were all reading and doing muraja. He
prayed asr for 2 hours
in front of us. Like in a corner,
he something had happened, he didn't pray in
jamaah.
He and we saw him pray,
for 2 hours. And he just
prayed.
And we were like, what did you read?
He said, I never took the exit.
He got on the highway,
he said, I never took the exit.
Like, Sheikh, that was 2 hours. He goes,
I I and then he told us don't
tell anyone. And I was like, Sheikh, I'm
definitely telling someone. He would wait 2 hours,
sir. But he for him, it didn't feel
like 2 hours. He got on the I
don't know what highway. He got on route
1. He said, I'm gonna go across Canada
right now. And he just started reading. That's
an experience. Amin?
Okay. What's the experience you wanna have with
the Quran? Ladies, real experience. Sounds like a
Bollywood movie. One of my students
wrote the whole Quran by hand and gave
it to her daughter at her wedding.
Yes. Absolutely.
Am I right? I'll I'll watch that movie.
Brothers,
she she wrote the
with her hand. That's the way we do
maraja in our class. And then at her
daughter's wedding, she gave her daughter her handwritten
Quran.
Man,
oh my baby just to give me a
bite of Quran and give it to him.
Them.
I mean, ladies, do you wanna experience that?
No goals,
experiences.
Anyone else wanna experience anything else?
You guys are boring. I was in a
wheelchair and while I was in the wheelchair,
I made intention to dunk by 44.
I wrote a dua. Oh God of my
legs, it's me. The brown boy who can't
jump. I wrote all this. And I said,
O Allah has sunnah to me. Friends, if
your imam could catch an alley oo and
dunk with 2 hand backwards, wouldn't your iman
go up just a little bit?
Of course.
So as we conclude and the adhan begins,
I want you to write down 1 hasana
now. We'll wait 1 minute.
Because my talk might have been the greatest
ever but if you don't leave here with
1 dua,
with one objective, every time you hear the
word
You'll be triggered, oh Allah. I wanna reach
my goal.
So when I have a year and a
half till being 44,
when I'm hanging on the rim and reading
this dua, you're gonna wish you made a
dua.
So from wheelchair to walking to dunking on
10 foot rim, what did you do? I'm
asking you now.
What responsibility you take? So can anyone make
one intention here?
What would you like to do? Anyone memorize
the whole Quran?
Build a healing clinic here in
Calgary.
Yes, sir? Anybody?
Yeah. This is where, oh, sheikh gave a
great talk and you don't.
So give me a talk, give me a
word, tell me something that you're gonna do.
What is one thing you wanna do with
your ability to ask Allah for hasanah?
I got 2 gentlemen over here before I
go down the Younger man, I see you.
I'll be there.
What is one hasanah to us friends?
Anyone work in in the sciences? Anyone work
in a in technology?
Okay. Yes, sir. Okay. We're gonna go down
the kids route, and then I'll start I'll
listen to them. They're gonna say amazing things,
and you'll feel, oh, they have good thoughts.
Adults, one idea.
Toys for Muslims.
Fashion for Muslim ladies. I have 3 daughters.
We're running between Ann Taylor's Law Forever 21
and Abideen, and just the cutting hems, and
I'm stitching at night. You gotta make it
work because I want them to be fabulous,
but and all the jibabs are tighter than
the forever 21
dresses. No joke. I went to my kids.
We went to a jilbab store, and they're
like, these are too tight. We went to
Forever 21, they were looser than the jilbab
store.
Help me. So can you what's your what's
your
Sorry, ladies. That got a graphic.
What's your hasana?
What and how many of you right now
can raise your hand to say, you can't
see anything outside yourself, that's why you don't
see anything.
You can't see anything outside. I understand. I
understand. O Allah, pay off your debts. So
that you can get your head up and
say, O Allah, make things better. Oh Allah,
how many of you could be an example
for your kids? How many people's hasanah is
you could be a great dad?
I'm Sir, that's a big deal, sir. It's
huge.
I could be a great mom.
Not one hand.
Like one lady waved at me.
She was like, hi. You know why? Because
you're already great moms. I get it. See?
Sheikh, next time we're gonna have to do
like a week primer. Friends,
I'm gonna conclude here. I would like to
come back to your community. I would like
to do recitation together. So
if you have your phone, can you take
it out? Can we recite Quran together?
That's a question. Por favoro
billfrencia.
Phone looking Quran reading
Got 4 guys laying down, 3 people praying
sunnah. Can you repeat after me?
It's gonna be a long ride home, Freddie.
If you wanna look at your Quran, we're
gonna do Surah Fatiha. You may know this
one. It's popular.
Bismillahirrahman.
Deep breath.
Bismillahirrahman.
Just watch the syllables. The ball bounces karaoke.
Are you too Muslim for me?
If you weren't talking to each other, you
would get it. One more time. In the
back. If you weren't talking to each other,
you would get it.
Arrahmanil
Rahim. Yeah. Definitely talking to you.
Together.
Last. Your lips together.
We'll pause.
That's what you need to work on. That's
your hasana.
Your hasana is you need to learn to
recite Quran. It'll do a lot for you.
As a prayer time comes upon us, can
we'll listen?
Flawless. Flawless. Now you're reciting
Quran.
Subwoofer. 18 inch subwoofer with a crossover.
Little bit more, fam. This one's a big
spook.
More air.
Slowly.
Gargoyles
gargling
Can you say wet?
Wet.
You could say Arabic word screaming. Can you
say
wet? Can you say wet? Wet.
Lamp. Lamp.
Wet
lamp.
Wet lamp. Keep it there. Say wet lamp.
Walla.
Walla or wet wet?
And now let your, your cheeks are gonna
fill. It's called
like a frog, ribbits.
How many people enjoyed reciting the book of
Allah?
What is for you? Oh Allah, let me
read Quran better.
I will ask Sheikh if we are concluding
or do we have 2 minutes as an
exercise?
Sheikh, are we now concluding for Maghrib?
You need to miss what? I do have
2 minutes as I feel I wanted to
give you so much and I don't know
that I did. Would you like to read
some names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for
1, 2 minutes? A great time to make
istighfarb
is before salatulmagrib.
Would you be interested in need reading as
some asma of Allah?
I prayed for someone to say yes because
I was gonna do it anyway. If you
have Allah's names on your phone,
please open it next to candy crush and
16 other games, maybe. Who plays candy crush?
Anyone? Right?
Dated.
Brothers, can you move in? Maghrib people are
coming.
Muminulmuayminul
lazizuljabar.
3 times. Al Mutankabib,
Make a dua. Take a moment. It's time
for Maghrib. Oh Allah, forgive me from my
sins and save me from the shackle of
constantly returning
to thoughts of sayyid actions.
Should I be constantly watching my sins in
my head?
I'll see you all tomorrow. Check me out
on Quran Revolutions YouTube channel. Wassalamu alaikum.
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