Yahya Ibrahim – 08 Dhul-Hijjah – Connect, Elevate & Bloom

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			Assalam wa Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala
rasulillah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam all that. So Han Allah, we've been together for nearly two
hours speaking in this special edition of the hijab, Islamic q&a for Islam channel UK.
		

			And I pray the loss of patent went to Allah was gathered us together makes us from those who are
fortunate to receive His blessing in the Day of Judgment, for forgiveness for the sins that we have
performed in the previous year and the years to come along. I mean, by praying that Allah Subhana
Allah makes us true followers of Aaron Wu Mohammed sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the footsteps of
Prophet Ibrahim alayhis salaam. We've been speaking about five important characteristics, attributes
and traits of Prophet Ibrahim that we can absorb into our life, to make ourselves our families, our
communities, our external neighbors and broader community better than where we would be if we did
		

			not learn these lessons from him. Peace and blessings be upon him. And point number four, we said
first, for example, we said to be from those who understand that being a minority is not always a
defect, that being a one, but upon truth makes you the majority, morally and ethically. Number two,
that it is important for us to have a love for a law that is what distinguishes us, number three, to
learn how to debate and to seek knowledge and to master the sciences. And number four, to be
grateful to Allah. And we said that gratitude is broken into three parts. The first of them, we
said, is to be from those who acknowledge the blessing of Allah subhana wa tada to understand where
		

			the blessings of Allah are, and not to be blinded by some of the difficulties and trials and
hardships that we experience in the world. Number two, and this is where we begin a new is in our
search for gratitude with Allah subhana wa to add up is to use the blessings we've been given in
that which is pleasing to Allah. Now, that's a very powerful, powerful thing, something that you and
I should increase more up, we've been blessed at many of us and hamdulillah with sight, with sound,
with ability and movement. Don't waste these things before they are taken from us as you see me in
sitting in front of you with my glasses on. I wasn't born wearing glasses, but these glasses are
		

			things that as I mature in age I become necessary they become necessary for me to function and to
drive and to function normally in life. So one of the ways that I can protect my eyes and protect
the blessing is to try to use them for that which is righteous and that which is good to come
together in reading more and studying more and more and more teaching and using my my strength of
sight in that which is pleasing to Allah. Number two is to take charge of that that inalienable
things that we have that we overlook. There are you know, things in the Prophet said, as attendee
Mohammed said, Come lahab take advantage of five things before they leave you and they leave every
		

			human being. There's no way that you can stop these five things from ever leaving you they will
always leave you at one point or another. prophets I seldom said to your youth, before you get older
to have a lot more likely how true number two, your free time before you become busy. So Pamela, the
days when you were a student at university, you thought you were busy until you became a family man
holding down a job and maybe a second to make sure that you are securing your family financially. So
panela take advantage of your youth when you're able to perform the worship of Allah
		

			And bow down to make some food and wake up for a total effort to help you to stand the whole 90 to
100 and taraweeh and Ramadan and and give of your charity because you don't have many financial
obligations yet you're not a family man yet you have all these things in your youth that you think
oh, I don't have but you have been blessed what your blessing is his youth
		

			as take advantage of it. Number two, your youth the province I sell them says your free time to have
a lot of 24 hours in the day, how many days we had how many periods of time do we waste in moments
that are irrelevant to our life, the prophets I send them says in one of the rewire
		

			that of the things that hard in the heart is excessive words and dialogue, excessive entertainment,
excessiveness, of just doing nothing of just trying to find a comic moment after comment just be
entertained with nothing else. And the remembrance of Allah is absent from your life. Number three,
your wealth before it's deprived. So primal love
		

			as much in you and I are blessed with eventually there comes a moment where what we have it doesn't
mean as much as what we wanted it to be.
		

			We ask a lot of panel went to Allah to protect us with this and to assist us with this.
		

			And I'm okay in sha Allah Allah he bet if he could do it. So with the things to to always look at
yourself and say I'm okay and I can do better and the wealth that I have, I want to use it not just
to keep saving and saving some of us in our early days. It's like I want to secure my future I want
to secure my retirement I'm gonna save and save and save and we forget that have the greatest
investment is charity. It is one of the greatest financial investment you can make in your life. So
Pamela, so don't have well that you have not taken advantage of by spending it even on yourself
spending it on your family, the prophets Allah Allah heard he was sending said, output off to South
		

			Africa. In fact, with
		

			the sadaqa that has the greatest bollock is when a person spends upon his wife and upon his family
so Pamela, how many people who have a love do I know when today well law he they mourn and regret
that they did not come with me to help did not make the journey to hedge with a with a towards a
loss of kindness to Allah. They were financially secure. They were, you know, they they were able to
take time off from work, they were able to, you know, have that but they looked in the mirror and
said, chat, you know, I'm still young and I'll come with you next year or the year after Chola next
year, the year after July next year or the year after. How many people are listening to me now who
		

			regret the fact that they have not made their head that they did not send their father and mother to
Hajj, how many people are mourning the fact that they cannot just book a ticket and go to Ramallah,
how many families who wanted to take their children and they plan jello we will go in the family
tomorrow in Christmas in the Christmas time in the Christmas break and the holiday break? We will go
later next time next year, the year after the year after that I still have opportunity somehow Nola
where is the opportunity today. If phenom How do you show your gratitude Don't delay when I say to
win the prophets I send them says your wealth before it's it's removed from you. It's not removed
		

			from you that you become poor. It's removed from you that the joy you could have from it is no
longer joint enjoyment. So how Allah What good is your wealth if you can't take time off from work
to go to Hajj but last year before you you you restarted this job where you had your job you could
go What good is your wealth now you can have 1000s in the bank but you can't go to hedge you have
1000 the bank but you never went with your family to a holiday you were holding only no no we want
to save and save and save to secure the future. Well the future is now when you miss you miss them
bonding moments you miss the opportunities you've missed to wear the clothes that you wanted or to
		

			bless your children with something that they needed. You held and held and held that it deprived you
of showing gratitude to Allah. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam corrected a man who thought
that arrogance was by displaying you know something fine in your attire or riding a nice ride.
privatised, Selim said, a person NWA is a very maternity it's a Muslim person will not enter
Paradise easily with the fringe groups of people. If in their heart there is an atom's weight of
arrogance. So men said yellow suit Allah a person likes to wear nice clothes
		

			and to ride a nice ride and to eat fine cuisine. Is this what you mean by arrogance? We should all
act poor even if I'm wealthy even if I can wear fine tailored clothing. I should wear something that
isn't the province la psychadelic Allah would you have even your HIPAA German law is a searchable
beauty he loves beauty. Were you able to euro Sri Rama Hyderabad he loves to see the effect of the
blessing he's given.
		

			Upon his servant, Allah wants you to enjoy the blessing This is part of your gratitude to Allah
subhanho wa Taala that you don't leave the he'll kulu Where should I go to sleep? Eat and drink what
pleases you but do not go to extremes. Do not be beyond spend thriftiness do not hoard it that you
don't give the poor they do and pay this aka do not overlook the needy but enjoy what you have and
everybody has a different means daddy cup of tea him in your shop I was mining I find hard whatever
What are you I did not have.
		

			Both of them with Allah have their place but both of them enjoy different luxurious lifestyles or
lacking in the worldly life. Or if man was able to buy a well for all of the people of Medina and
remove a burrito with sleeping in the masjid. I did not own his own home was homeless. This is you
know, and then he come up to lie your T shirt. So take advantage of the gratitude of Allah. When you
have something, take advantage of it in that which is pleasing to Allah. Don't take your * out
risk. Don't take your halau wealth and spend it in her arm. Don't spend it haphazardly in that which
is sinful that which is wayward that which is arrogant that which is beyond what are the limitations
		

			of the Quran and the teaching of our debate you can be sold Allah, Allah yourself. Number three, in
how to show gratitude in the spirit of Ibrahim alayhis salaam is do not use the blessing of Allah in
that which Allah has prohibited. Do not use your strength. Just say some kind of Allah Allah is
giving you strength don't use your arrogance Yeah, it against your weaker white. Don't use it
against your weaker children. Don't show you're a tough guy with with weaker people. Don't show your
loud mouth, vulgar mouth person with somebody who's weaker than you just because they can't respond.
Don't show your your abuse to those who work under you because you were in a position of advantage
		

			and you're the boss. Don't you know be ethically criminal in your behavior towards others, because
the position you will have the wealth you have the strength you have is not your own doing and the
one who gave it to you will take it from you. The one who blessed you can be the one who reaps and
takes from you some kind on winter either causes you to reap what you have sown.
		

			And therefore those three acknowledge take note what as Allah, Allah subhanho wa Taala says in
Surah, Brahim, named after Prophet Ibrahim,
		

			were interviewed to them at Allah He that talks so hard if you try to account to come together to
count one of the blessings of Allah you cannot add your ability to see to date so have a lot for
those of us who have been blessed with sight your ability to see today. Or to hear today. How useful
has a bit Can you count? Can you put $1 figure on the usefulness of it? Can you put a figure of how
useful it was to Pamela you can
		

			you can never comprehend how many times you the moment is a beautiful flower or a smile or as a ray
of light. All of these are nearby How can you account for it in just one day? How can you account
for so how can you account for all of the blessings of love and therefore do not use it in that
which is sinful? So that it is not removed from you? Allah subhana wa to Allah in the way the Quran
is structured by Allah say name checkup to let us see that. If you are thankful I will increase you.
Alessia Otto Otto will be Don't be here as a part of our maximums of exam of Islamic law of Arabic
language, things become more clear in that which opposes the equally. So just like you say Allah
		

			subhana wa tada Allah
		

			has blessed me with this good that he will give me more good if I appreciate it. It's also saying if
I don't appreciate it, the opposite is also true that if I don't show shook, then Allah will not
increase but Allah will deprive as an alum in burning, may Allah protect you and I in our hopes for
this. Finally, before we conclude our session, the fifth lesson we take from Ibrahim alayhis salam
is to learn how to disagree agreeably to disagree respectfully with others. So Pamela, Ibrahim Ali
is set up had many many enemies, many debates and many people who disagreed with him that he
disagreed with them but always with respect, with dignity, with honor with nobility, with the word
		

			of Allah in His heart is
		

			His behavior and his manners. Muslims should not be shy to say that we disagree with others, but we
should never disagree with others in a disagreeable way that contradicts our ethos and our suiting
the prophets of Allah and he will seldom have people who disagreed with him, but he never disagreed
with them with the vulgarity that they disagreed with him.
		

			You know, if a person was to, you know, throw celluloid Jesu, upon the Prophet so I sell them in the
authentic hadith in Sahih al Bukhari as a prophet was praying in front of the camera, and he went
down and record or Institute
		

			in the abbey more is Lana. Hola. May the curse of Allah remained upon him. He came to the prophets I
send them and he dumped upon him in his sujood in front of the cabin, he dumped upon him the
intestines and that blood and the internal organs of a freshly slaughtered animal.
		

			Do you seek to humiliate the prophets of Allah he was selling what whoever had better and he is
Mohammed sallallahu alayhi wa sallam The one who could never be brought down who could never be
defeated. Because in that cafe Baca says he Allah says, I'm the one who will suffice you those who
seek to humiliate you and debase you, and I'm the one who gives you victory. They can say whatever
they want to say you are known in the heavens, not just on the earth, some of the law.
		

			So the Prophet remained the decidual until his daughter ca female rhodiola and how she came with
pictures of water, she doubted it through the water from a privatized cell it washed the digester
off you removed it off and cleansed it from it. And he stood up, it's still in solid did not depart
his prayer did not give them the satisfaction of breaking his prayer or leaving instead, he
disagreed with their conduct. He stood up in his Sunnah and he put his hands up to Allah. Allah, I
see him either that, Oh Allah, you count for them, you know who they are, you know who they are,
Allah, but I think of your ultimate, right Oh Allah, I set you apart anymore i O Allah, may you be
		

			the one who deals with it. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught us to, even in the moments
of hostility, where either Maru believe we are Rokia Rama, that when we pass by frivolity,
sinfulness and that which we do not like we turn away with the nobility, Allah subhanho wa Taala
says when that azubu do not curse, their false gods, which you believe is a false god, that's a full
statue, a false deity, a false belief fails to Bula who I believe because if you curse their God,
they will return in cursing your God. Allah the Prophet sign said Lim said how humiliated is a
person who curses their own father? And they said, yeah, it also Allah who would swear who would be
		

			vulgar to their father, oh messenger of Allah. He said, The one who curses another man's father,
another man's mother, another man's family. So in response, they curse them and their family. You
brought it upon yourself, You humiliated yourself by disagreeing in a way that is not the suit of
the prophets. I seldom Ibrahim Alia celeb disagrees with his father and when his father says that in
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			during the millennia if you don't stop laying lifted the * out you're gonna if you don't stop I'm
gonna kill you and stone you to death why God let me never see your face again. connoisseur level my
father Peace be with you, Stella people like karate, I will continue to ask Allah for forgiveness
for you than to I you and I make for our parents and I'm defini when he when he they are benefiting
me when he when he they they don't have Ibrahim for himself in his first father, and so that you
don't be mistaken. Allah says that Ibrahim says, Well fitting me me into sha Allah forgive my father
in the home kind of lead that evil wicked bed.
		

			That evil wicked man, Ibrahim makes up for him had the debate unit level and up
		

			until he came to know that he is from those who will be tested for the punishment and Hellfire
meaning he died in disbelief. Then Ibrahim stopped making up for him. He always maintained drop,
because learning to disagree. And to not accept everything other people accept is the pseudonym. But
to do so in an agreeable manner, is a greater suit. We do not accept the habits and behaviors, the
sexual ethics of other cultures of other people. We don't take it as our own behavior. We don't
dress or have the promiscuity or the drunkenness or that you know that those type of behaviors are
foreign to us as Muslims, culturally and religiously and spiritually yet, we don't do that in a way
		

			that is disagreeable in how we push back and say this is not from our tradition, our faith and our
culture. We do it in a dignified
		

			Under lack of detail, what do you do to you your way of life to do your to you your habit to do your
system and to me by way of like my self dignity and my self preservation is absolute. These are five
essential attributes we've learned from Ibrahim alayhis salam, to be from those first who celebrate
themselves as being a minority and distinct at times. It's not always a weakness, to be of those who
seem to have a left with a lot to be a once with a lot in our love, to debate with a strong way to
seek knowledge and finally to disagree respectfully and agreeably. May Allah subhanho wa Taala bless
your 10 days of the ledger. It's your brother. Yeah, hey, Brahim. And I hope we will meet again,
		

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