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The importance of submission to God's word and not dying until one's life is finished is emphasized in Islam. Personal attributes and a "branded system" are also discussed. The speaker emphasizes the need for belief and love for one another to achieve success in life and avoid harms. The importance of privacy and safe living is also emphasized. The need for love and protection of property is also emphasized.AI Generated Transcript ©
And I bear witness that there is no
There is no
except Allah
There's no God. There's no true God but
Allah. And I bear witness that Muhammad ibn
Abdullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam is his servant
and last and final messenger.
Allah
tells us in the Quran,
Oh you who believe.
Oh you who believe and have faith. Fear
Allah as he has the right to be
fierce, as it is his right. And do
not die, do not let your life expire
on this earth without having submitted yourselves to
him. We don't know when our life will
end. Right? So that means we are constantly
supposed to stay in that state of submission
by this verse. Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
tells mankind,
O mankind,
fear your lord who created you from a
single soul, reminding us all that no matter
where you're from today, no matter what color
you are today, no matter what language you
speak today, no matter what land you claim
today, we all, all human beings trace our
origin back to our father Adam alaihis salam
and his wife Hawa. That is the unity
of humanity.
And then Allah says, fear Allah from whom
you demand your mutual rights with the tides
of kinship,
and give reverence,
pay respect to the
the womb that gave you birth. Every single
woman, every single mother out there that respect
is to be given to them. And then
Allah says, for surely I see everything that
you do. Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Oh you who
believe, hear Allah
and speak the word that needs to be
spoken.
Say the truth is how it usually translates.
But Allah is saying, say what needs to
be said when it needs to be said.
When it's time to say what needs to
be said, say it.
And Allah says, if you do this, no
matter what the consequences or outcomes might be,
Allah will guide you towards righteous actions, and
he will forgive you of your sins.
Then Allah says, whoever has obeyed Allah and
His messenger,
they've already achieved the greatest achievement.
Indeed the truest speech.
Men men and women, we can just say
anything. Right? It has to be verified. But
the truest of speech
is the kalam of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
the speech of Allah, the book of Allah
And the best guidance,
the best example to follow is the example
of our beloved prophet
And the worst affairs, the worst thing that
you can do, the prophet
said, the worst acts that can be committed
are newly innovated matters into this religion. Putting
things in this religion that Allah did not
legislate, nor did the prophet
legislate.
The prophet
they are the worst.
And every one of those things is a
and every single
is a misguidance, it's a deviance, it's away
from the straight path.
And he said, in every single misguidance,
there's only one path to Jannah.
1 singular. He said, every other path leads
to the
fire.
My dear brothers and sisters,
first forgive me that my voice is still
a little bit raspy.
Getting over that, but, we'll get through it.
I've been traveling the world for the past
nearly 20 years, talking about Islam to non
Muslims, talking about Islam, trying to bring Muslims
back to practicing the deen.
And one of the biggest questions that all
of us get asked as speakers
is what can we do for the Muslim
Ummah? How can like, you've traveled, you've seen
Muslims all over the globe. What do we
what do we do? Yeah? What is our
what is the solution to the problems facing
the ummah? This is like the big question.
And for many many years I was
I have no idea, right? There's so many
things. And if there were 1, if there
was a magic pill,
I would be bottling it up and settling
it and retired a long time ago.
But then,
the more I spent time looking at
the behaviors of the Muslims and looking at
the behaviors of the companions, looking at the
sunnah, looking at the seerah, looking at what
Allah
says about our condition,
I think I've narrowed it down to
one thing.
If we were to do this one thing.
One thing. If this ummah were to incorporate
it,
we would not be in the position of
humiliation we find ourselves in today. One thing,
if we were to do it, we would
be on top of the world. One thing,
if we were to do it, we would
have the that Allah gave to his prophet
alaihis salatu waslam and his companions. One thing,
if we were to do it, the situation
that is happening in Gaza right now would
not be happening. One thing, if we were
to do it, what happened to our brothers
and sisters in China, the Uighurs, would not
happen. In the Rohingya and Burma, it would
not happen. Muslims would not be going through
the difficulties that we are facing today. And
it is
Subhanallah. It is such an easy thing to
institute. It is literally one of the easiest
things we could institute, but our nafs, our
ego,
our giver, our arrogance stops
us. What is that thing?
Love.
Love.
I know they're like oh, Pratish is going
on this whole love kumbaya. No, listen to
me.
Love one another for the sake of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
If we were to love one another
for the sake of Allah
the way we are supposed to as Muslims,
we would have the aza that
Allah is guaranteed to this. I'll give you
many examples as much as I can
inshallah. Allah
says in the Quran in Surah Al Hajjrat,
Indeed the believers are but
That doesn't just mean, you're my brother, I
love you bro.
Means they are like family.
They are tied with a closer relationship than
blood.
They are tied with a closer relationship
than blood.
How do I know this?
Because there was many companions of the Prophet
alaihis salatu wa sallam. Even our own Prophet
himself had to fight against his own family
members for the sake of this religion.
His own family turned on him. He had
to fight his own uncle. There were many
companions who had to kill their own family
members
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
One of the tabaeen came to one of
the companions,
and he said when the prophet
was with you, how did you treat him?
And they described.
They said, wallahi, if he was with us,
we would have treated him so much better.
We would have carried him on our shoulders.
He said, Do not say what you would
have done in our position. You're born and
raised in a Muslim family. Many of us
had to leave this religion and become enemies
with our own family members, fight them for
the sake of this beautiful religion. So don't
say what you would have done if you
would have been in our position.
The believers are nothing but a family.
A family.
The Prophet
said that the Muslim
is a brother, akhid, to another Muslim. This
goes for sisters as well. A Muslim is
another sister to another Muslim.
They do not wrong them in any way
nor do they forsake them and leave them.
They don't leave them. They don't forget about
them. They don't just let them be, they
don't hurt them, and they don't forsake them.
As we know the Prophet
said, that a believer is someone who other
people are safe from the harm of the
tongue in their hands. This is belief, this
is iman.
Also the Prophet
said, I literally have like 15 pages on
this because I've been working on a book
for
this. The Prophet
said,
Allah is with His slave,
that Allah will be with.
And what does Allah say, If He is
with you?
Allah says, If He is with you, who
can be against you? Allah asked a rhetorical
question in the Quran. If I am with
you,
who can stand against you?
If I support you, who's gonna stop you?
The Prophet
said, Allah is with his slave
as long as his slave is helping his
brother.
That as long as you are helpful to
your fellow brothers and sisters, Allah is with
you. And if Allah is with you, you
can't be defeated. Look at the battle of
Badr as a beautiful example.
Our Prophet
he looked at the field of Badr, and
he realized
that strategically
they were outnumbered,
strategically
they were out armed, strategically they had no
chance.
Right?
So he stood in front of Allah and
what did he say? He said,
My lord,
these are your slaves.
This is all you got. These are all
of your slaves.
If we are defeated today, you will no
longer be worshipped on this earth. If we
go down today, your religion goes with us.
And we know the very famous story that
Allah
sent the angels. If Allah is with you,
who can be against you? Who can be
against you?
The Prophet
said, that the parable of the believer
The parable of the believer in relation to
mercy and kindness,
in relation to mercy and kindness and compassion,
they have for one another. We know this
famous hadith. I'm not telling you anything that
you need to go research and say, brother,
you should speak in the truth. It's like
one body.
It's like this singular body unit.
If one part of the body is in
pain,
the rest of it is in pain and
it's restless and it's sleepless
and and reacts to it and tries to
fix it. We know this now medically.
If you cut your finger, you cut your
finger,
your entire body creates a response.
Your entire body goes into creating a response.
White blood cells to to to clot the
wound and then the healing process starts. Your
whole body gets involved to help that simple
cut. Right now our ummah is in pieces.
We're missing limbs. We're missing organs.
And yet our response is
medial at least.
Immediately at least. The Prophet
another famous hadith, you know.
He said, The believer to another believer
are like bricks
of a building each supporting one another.
They're like the buildings of a wall. You
put brick by brick, and they become one
solid structure.
But you start taking bricks out of the
wall. What happens? You weaken it. You weaken
its structure, and the more you take out
of it, the weaker it becomes so they
could just be pushed over by anybody. A
donkey leaning against it can knock it over.
That is this ummah right now. A shattered
mess.
We can fix it if we learn to
love one another for the sake of Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Truly, truly.
The prophet
also said, you famously know,
one of the 7 categories of people
who will have the shade of the throne
of Allah on the day of judgement, on
a day where there will be no other
shade, there'll be no trees, there'll be no
there'll be nothing for you. The sun will
be brought near, burning us,
It's dripping in our drowning, in our own
sweat.
1 of the 7 categories of people who
have the shave of the throne of Allah
on the day of judgment, are 2 people
who meet each other, and greet and depart
only for the love of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. Only for the sake of Allah's love.
There was one person who was going to
meet another Muslim,
going to meet his brother, and an angel
was sent to accompany him.
And the angel is asking him, why are
you going to visit so and so? Does
he owe you something? Do you guys have
some business? Do you got some beef? You
know, like, what is your point for going
to visit him? He said, I'm going to
visit him solely for the sake of Allah.
I love him for the sake of Allah.
This angel responded and said, know that the
one whom you love him for his sake,
loves you in return.
Know that the one whom you love your
brother for his sake, loves you in return.
Look how important Allah is showing us that
this concept is.
He's showing us that this is the concept,
this is the path, this is the way.
On the day of judgment, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala will call out while all the people
are surrounding. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will call
out and he will say, where are those
who loved one another for my sake? Where
are those
who loved one another for my sake? For
today, I have a shade for them
that there is no other shade for. Where
are they? And he'll bring them forward and
put them under the shade of his throne.
May
Allah make us from among these people.
From Ubayd al bin Samit, the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
my love is obligatory.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, My love I've
made My love obligatory
for those who love one another for My
sake. I have made it obligatory on myself
to love those who love one another for
my sake. I have made it obligatory
that I love those who help one another
for my sake. I have made it obligatory
for me to love those who visit one
another for my sake.
And my love is made obligatory
for those whose hearts are free of grudges,
for those whose hearts are free of grudges
and they uphold the ties of brotherhood with
each other solely for my sake are known.
How many examples do we know
of brothers not talking to other brothers over
simple disputes, simple arguments, simple things have gone
wrong? Now they don't speak for years years
years. Not only that we go as far
as family members. Family members which is one
of the major
things in Islam. The is one of the
major things to cut ties. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala refuses jannah for anyone who cuts the
ties of kinship. Family members who have gotten
into arguments or disputes, or what have you,
and they've cut relations with one another. And
you wonder why we're in this state. If
Allah says his love is obligatory for those
who keep this, then what is it for
those who break it?
What is it for those who break it?
And we find this widespread
widespread in our Umma.
Widespread.
The Prophet
said, it's narrated by Abu Huraira and the
collection of imam Muslim.
That the Prophet
said,
And I want you this is
the most important one. You have this this
is it. This is the key. This is
this one hadith. This one hadith
is the magic pill for this Ummah right
now. It is the pill that would give
us everything we needed. It is the pill
that would give us izzah. It is the
pill that would give us victory. The prophet
said,
you will not enter paradise until you believe.
We all want Jannah. Right? Every single one
of us, there's not a single Muslim on
this planet that would say, no. I'm okay.
I don't need Jannah. I'm fine with burning
forever.
No. We all want jannah. The prophet
said, you will not enter jannah until you
believe,
and you will not believe until you love
one another.
You will not believe, you will not have
real belief until you love one another. So
our messenger alaihis salatu wasalam, look at the
connection chain he put. For Jannah, he said
you must have belief. And in order to
have belief, you must have love for one
another. So it begins with loving one another,
gives us our faith, and then our faith
gives us paradise. So do not think that
we are going to make it to Jannah
without having this sincere love for one another
for the sake of Allah
It does not matter if I know anything
about you. It does not matter where you
come from. It doesn't matter if we even
speak the same language.
If you are someone who says,
you are my brother or sister in faith,
and I am obligated to love you sincerely
for it. And it does not matter. People
who have wronged me. Yes. I've been wronged.
All of us been wronged in our lives
by other Muslims. I say it boldly. I've
been wronged by Muslims more than I've been
wrong by non Muslims in the 26,
7 years that I've been a Muslim.
But even those who have wronged me in
the worst way,
I love them for the sake of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala and I want paradise for
them. I want Jannah for them. I make
dua that Allah forgives them and grants them
paradise
In hopes that he'll forgive me and grant
me paradise. And if that brother or sister
were to call me and ask me for
help, it's 3 o'clock in the morning. I'm
in a situation of life or death tragedy.
Would you help me even though I wronged
you so much? No questions
asked. For the sake of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, aloom.
This is the attitude that we must have.
Would I trust you to go into business
with you again? No, probably not. Would I
trust you to get close enough to me
again to harm you like you did in
the future the the past? Probably not. But
I love you for the sake of Allah,
and I want Jannah for you, and I
would help you if you needed so. This
is the attitude of the believer. This is
the attitude of the believer.
There was once
2 great companions
whom we all know.
1 of them,
and the other one was Abu Thar.
Abu Thar if you know these companions, which
we're gonna have a series, coming up soon
about the companions, inshaAllah,
on Wednesdays. If you know who Abu Dhar
is, you know he was one of the
great companions, a man's man. A man who
stood up in front of the Meccans when
there was no help and
boldly proclaimed the Shahadah. Abu Dhar was a
gangster before Islam. A lot of our youth
went around. They wanna think they're gangsters. Abu
Dhar was a real gangster.
His tribe, the tribe of Qiphon, they were
the robbers of Arabia. Right? If you traveled
outside of,
the major cities and you ran into Abu
Dhar's tribe, whatever belonged to you now belong
to them. And maybe you belong to them
too. That's just what they were. Abu Dawar
stood up and said, I am a Muslim.
I have submitted. They beat him till he
passed out. This happened three times. Finally, the
prophet said, you must leave. I have no
way to protect you. I can't help you.
You need to leave the city. He gave
him an order. So Abu Dhar said, okay.
This is what real gangster is. He said,
okay. He went to his tribe, gave them
Dawah, converted the majority of them Islam to
Islam, and then marched with all of them
back into the city of Mecca, stood in
front of the Kaaba and said, I am
Abu Dhar, and this is my tribe of
Ghafar, and we have all accepted Islam. Now
what?
Now what? They didn't do anything. This is
Abu Zar. And we know Bilal in his
story of being a slave, not giving up
not saying
having the stone put on and burning in
the sand, and him his freedom being bought
by Abu Bakr. Him becoming the first Muhammad
of Islam. The prophet saying he heard him
in front of him, his footsteps, and Jannah.
These 2 great men
got into it one day. They got into
it.
They were discussing the spoils of war, and
Abu Dhar had an opinion and Bilal disagreed
with him. And Abu Dhar, his
his arrogance, his giver
got the best of him. His ego got
the best of him. And he said, how
dare you disagree with me, oh son of
a black woman. Basically called him the n
word. Can you imagine, brother, you should get
up here and call any of our brothers
from from from the African continent, the Aynore
right now. Done. That's it. Cancel. Forever. Gone.
You shouldn't exist anymore. He basically called him
the n word. And Bilal was hurt. He
was hurt. He loved he loved Abu Dharr.
So he went to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and he complained.
And the Prophet
said, bring Abu Thar to me. So he
brought him. Even though he knew Bilal was
truthful, this also gives us some wisdom. Right?
Allah says verify everything.
Verify everything without question.
So he brought him and he asked him,
did you say that to Bilal?
Abu Dhar, do you say that?
Bilal put his head down. He said, yes
o Messenger of Allah, I said it. He
said,
there is still Jahiliyyah in your heart.
That broke him. Jahiliya
meant the time when they worship rocks, and
sticks, and others, and that, and all these
other things, the ignorance.
That was the worst thing that anybody could
be told
for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to
tell you you have jai liyah in you.
It smashed him.
He immediately went looking for Bilal.
He went looking for him, he went to
his house, he couldn't find him. He wasn't
in the masjid. Where did he find him?
He found him in the busiest place in
Medina, in the suk, in the market.
And what did he do? He didn't go
grab him and say, we're gonna go around
the corner, we're gonna squash this beef like
it never happened, we're gonna come out, everybody
No. He went and jumped in front of
him and threw himself on the ground, put
his face on the dirt and said, Vidal,
I will not get up from this spot
until you put your foot on your face
and show all of these people that you're
better than me.
Picked him up,
kissed his cheek, and said, I would much
rather kiss this face than step on it.
And that was it. It was squashed. They
were done. This is how men handle business.
Brothers,
this is how men handle business. It was
done. It was over. They were back brothers
for the sake of Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Now we can't even talk to each other.
You got a problem with that brother? You
go tell that brother. You got a problem
with that sister? You go and tell this
sister. No. No. No. You have a problem
with someone? You deal with it with that
someone. I've always said it. If you have
a problem with me, bring it to me.
And if you don't know how to reach
me, then you don't know me well enough
to have a problem with me in the
first place. So what are we doing here?
Deal with it with one another. Squash it.
Let it go. Be done with it. Because
on the day of judgment, all of us
are gonna look stupid
when Allah has made our mizan heavy. Right?
And we think we're good. We go across
the siraat. Boom. We've made it. We think
we're good. And then right outside Jannah, Allah
stops all of us and said, now is
the time for the judgment amongst yourselves.
Now is the time for you to take
back
that who bit who back bit against you,
that one who slandered you, that one who
wronged you, that one who stole from you,
that one who did. Now is the time.
And how many of us are gonna lose
our needs? How many of us are gonna
start giving away our good deeds to people?
How many of us are gonna run out
of good deeds and have to start taking
on another person's sin and be thrown into
the fire after we passed all of that?
All simply because we couldn't overcome our own
ego.
All because we couldn't overcome our own ego.
What is wrong with us?
Let it go.
Start new. Let it go for the sake
of Allah
and love one another. The prophet
a few more now be done.
He said,
Allah ta'ala says and this is,
by Mu'adim in Jabril radiAllahu anhu. My love
is obligatory for those who love each other
for my sake, for sit together for my
sake, those who visit each other for my
sake, and those who spend on each other.
He added this part of the hadith, and
those who spend on each other. For what?
For my sake. For my sake, I've made
my love obligatory to them.
In the collection of Abu Dawood,
Umar ibn Khattab
He said,
Verily The Prophet
said, Verily, there are some people amongst the
servants of Allah that are neither prophets nor
martyrs.
They're not prophets, those are the best of
people. The next best are the shuhada.
They're none of these. He said, but they
will be envy
like that on the day of judgment. They
will be envied like that on the day
of judgment. And then and the companion said,
who are these people, oh messenger of Allah?
We want to be like them. You see
their difference with them? They immediately want to
know, how can we be like these people?
Who are they? He said, they are the
people who love each other for the sake
of Allah. They are the people who love
each other for the sake of Allah, not
because of family relations or wealth. By Allah,
light will be placed on their faces, and
they will be sitting on pulpits of light.
They will have no fear when all the
other people are afraid on the day of
judgement, and they will not be sad when
the other people are grieving.
We can be like these people just for
loving each other. Simply just for that. Just
because I love all of you for the
sake of Allah, I can have my face
life on the day of judgment? I can
be sat on a throne of light? I
can be a wait When everybody else is
worried, I can be okay?
How simple a solution.
But our egos,
this this nafs is what prevents us.
The prophet
said,
there is a disease that has come to
you like the disease of the nations that
came before you, a disease. He called it
a disease.
He said there is and this is the
cancer of this ummah and it spreads. Can't
A cancerous tumor is nothing but a bad
tumor and that bad tumor cell affects other
cells around it and they start forming tumors,
big tumors, etcetera. It is a cancer,
a disease.
He said,
envy and hatred of one another.
The disease that you have that was of
the nations before you is envy and hatred
of one another. He said,
it's a razor.
It's a razor, it's a blade. But it
is not a blade that shaves the hair.
It is a blade that shaves the faith.
It is a blade that shaves the faith.
He said, by the one whose hands is
the soul of Muhammad
salallahu alaihi wa sallam. That was one of
his strongest oaths. He would say by the
in by the one whose hands is the
soul of Muhammad
You will not believe till you love one
another.
You will not enter paradise until you believe.
This
This is how important this is. It's not
a joke.
Said the messenger of Allah asked
us, do you love Jannah? Do you love
paradise?
Of course, we love paradise. The answer is
it's a rhetorical question. He said, do you
love paradise?
They said, yes. He said, then love for
your brother what you love for yourself.
If you love paradise, then love for each
other what you love for yourself. The things
that you want for yourself, want for your
brother or your sister as well.
This is the thing that could give us
back the is an honor that we deserve.
This could give us trust me, the things
that are happening to the muslim Ummah would
not happen if we were united like this.
They would not happen. The Prophet
said, When the jama'ah is strong,
we can't be defeated. He held one stick,
right? And he snapped it. And he said,
this is the solitary Muslim. This is the
one who goes out and tries to do
his own thing, right? He cuts himself off
from everybody else and thinks he's good. He's
gonna get broken like a twig. Then he
put a bunch of them together and he
tried to break them and he said this
is the jama'ah.
This is the Muslim body. When you are
together,
you cannot be broken because Allah is with
you.
May
Allah grant us his love for 1 of
them.
If we could learn to love one another
the way the companions love one another, brothers
and sisters,
we would have everything that we want, everything
that we desire.
The only thing that is stopping us is
this, our own egos, our own self concern,
our nafsi, nafsi, nafsi. We only care about
ourselves.
We should care about each other the exact
same way that we care about ourselves. The
same way you don't want to be harmed,
you shouldn't want your brother or sister to
be harmed. The same way you want your
honor to be protected, you should want the
honor of your brother sister to be protected.
The same way you want to live in
safety and security, you should want your brother
or sister to live in safety and security.
The same way you wish that somebody would
be there to help you
The same All of these things that you
want for yourself,
want for each other. And if we truly
do that and Allah sees that in our
hearts, he will give us the honor and
victory that
Allah has promised to the believers
insha'Allah. Lastly,
this is an ibn Majaba ibn Aba'as
because one of the big things that I
find
that we do the most
is fault finding.
We love finding faults in each other. Right?
We're very good at that. We are like
experts at finding faults in our brothers and
sisters.
I even made a tweet about this a
few years ago that we we we live
as if we don't have mirrors in our
houses.
We live our lives as if we don't
look in the mirror every single day and
see ourselves. Right? The way we look at
each other, we don't look at ourselves in
the same way in the mirror.
Fault finding, looking for your fault and your
brother using it against them, using it for,
for for the sake of putting another brother
down, another sister down, and trying to make
yourself feel better is one of the dangerous
diseases that we have. And it is something
that will cause you great tragedy on the
day of judgment. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
this is also why I have never ever
nor will ever insha Allahu ta'ala
use my public platform to speak ill of
another Muslim. Ever. Nor will I ever do
it. Never. Never.
Because I have a mirror in my house.
I see myself.
I'm concerned about this person. I have enough
of my own. But the prophet
said,
whoever conceals the faults
of his brother
or sister, whoever conceals. You see your brother
has a fault, you cover it. You go
and try to talk to him, look, you
know, we can try to try to keep
this out of the public realm, keep it
between you and Allah, and you don't go
and blabber about it to another person or
another person or another person or online or
whatever. He said whoever conceals the faults of
his brother or sister, then Allah will conceal
their faults in the day of judgment. How
will this happen? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
call you. This is what will happen to
people like this. Allah will call you on
the day of judgment and then He will
place a veil between you and everybody else.
And he'll tell you about all of your
sins
and you'll be worried and you'll say, my
slave, look around you. Nobody else can see
this.
The same way that I prevented anyone from
knowing them in this world, I'm preventing them
from being known in this life and hereafter
as well, and I have forgiven you. I
have forgiven you. So whoever conceals his brother
or sister's faults, Allah will conceal their faults.
But he gave us a very strong warning,
Very strong warning.
But whoever exposes and seeks out their brother's
faults. Whoever seeks out and exposes their brother
or their sister's faults, Allah will seek out
and expose them
even if those faults are hidden inside their
homes.
Even if those faults are known to no
one but them in Allah. Allah will put
them out there if you go around doing
that. So make sure we love one another
for the sake of Allah. Cover each other.
One of the great salaf of our ummah
said if you see your brother make a
mistake, look for an excuse for him. And
if you can't find 1, try 70 times.
And then if after 70 times you still
can't find an excuse, say that he probably
has an excuse or she probably has an
excuse that I don't know about.
Our affairs are with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We need to protect our communities, yes, but
we need to protect our akhirah. Our hereafter
is the most important thing. None of this
will matter when we stand in front of
Allah. We will only And when we make
it to Jannah,
none of this nonsense that we fought over
will matter anyway. We've made it. We're people
of paradise. It's done. You would trade your
children on the day of judgment for Allah
to give you paradise. You might think you
love them now, but on the day of
judgment, you would ransom them to Allah if
He would put you in paradise. And Allah
is telling us that if we simply love
one another for His sake, then he will
give us paradise insha'allah. He'll give us honor.
He'll give us victory. So remember, when you
see your brother or sister from now on,
make sure you know that you love them
for the sake of Allah. I love you
for the sake of Allah. If you need
me, I'm here, etcetera, so on and so
forth. Be genuine about it and watch how
this ummah can change in 1 generation. Watch
how this ummah can change in 1 generation.
Make sure that your lowers are straight, fill
in the gaps, leave no spaces shoulder to
So
So