Yusha Evans – Khatirah DHUL-HIJJAH KEY DATES
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The importance of resilience and embracing oneself in the face of stubbornness is emphasized, along with the story of the prophet Khaled compelling individuals to do what they want to do. The speaker discusses the importance of personal stories and connecting with people, as well as the success of their message on court and their belief in Islam. They emphasize the need to stay true to Islam and not give up, as it is a passion and one should not give up. The importance of faith and staying on the same path is emphasized, along with the need to be helpful to others and not let anyone be written off. The speaker also mentions upcoming events and plans for the upcoming year.AI: Transcript ©
How are you guys?
Alhamdulillah.
May Allah bless you guys for all the
duas you made and being patient with me
and, my father Alhamdulillah.
He survived his surgery. I don't know if
if that was related to you.
As you know the chances were very slim.
But I guess stubbornness,
can get you into trouble and it can
get you, out of it. So I think
he's too stubborn to go here. So, alhamdulillah,
he's okay. I spent the last week with
him.
He's now been moved into rehabilitation where he
will have to spend the next 6 months
trying to learn how
to function again and walk again with his
spine completely fused.
So,
make Dua that,
he continues on.
I've been trying very hard. I've been trying
very hard for many, many years now. But
anyway,
What I want to talk about tonight insha'Allah,
and stay, and please stay, I will be
in the more than 10 minutes and I
have some announcements at the end about my
upcoming programs that we'll be doing insha'Allah.
The hadith of the Prophet
that I've mentioned briefly,
where Allah, where he said,
Indeed all actions are based upon the last
one. The last action. The reason I mentioned
this is because
resilience
is one of the qualities of the believer.
Resilience is one of the qualities of the
believer. Manus Khutba will be on this topic
where the prophet
likened the believer to the date palm tree.
And resilience is one of those qualities.
That we are people who must continue on
to the very end. We don't give up.
We're not a people who gives up. So
we should never give up on ourselves, nor
should we ever give up on other people.
Nor should we ever give up on other
people. The reason why I say this is
if we look at the story
of, and I mentioned this before briefly, but
I want to tie it into what I'm
talking about tonight.
The story of Khaled ibn Walid. The story
of Khaled ibn Walid always comes back to
me when I think about how we should
never give up on people.
After the battle of Uhud, the Khaled I'm
Walid was probably the most despised human being
on the face of this earth by the
Muslim Ummah.
Probably the most despised human being on the
face of this earth by the Muslim Ummah
after the battle of Uhud was Khaled ibn
Walid. Because he was the reason for their
defeat. He was the reason for the death
of the uncle of the prophet,
the death of the cousin of the prophet,
the death of Mus'aib al Umair and all
the other shuhada, many of the amazing shuhada
that died on on on the battlefield of
Uhud.
Khalil Uwaleed was responsible for this.
Now in our modern time we would think
of Khalil Mualin, and we'll be cursing him
left, right, and center. Left, right, and center.
We would be calling him the worst of
names. May Allah throw him the deepest may
Allah break his back and all of these
things. Right? This is how we are.
How was the prophet He
is our example.
When the prophet
saw the brother of Khaled ibn Walid in
Madina.
After the battle of Uhili, saw his brother.
What did he say to him? Anybody know?
Anybody remember what he told him? He said,
I want you to give a message to
your brother. What did he say? Did he
say, you better watch your back?
You better sleep with one eye open?
We coming for you. I got assassins.
I'm sending ox after you. What did he
say to him? He's
He said, tell your brother he is very
wise. He's an intelligent person.
He is so wise
that he is too intelligent not to recognize
who I am.
He's too intelligent not to know who I
am.
SubhanAllah. Do do you see the difference
where the Prophet
put his ego and his emotions
to the side?
His ego and his emotions
came second
to the
position of being
the prophet of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
his messenger on this earth. And for us,
we have taken that position
in terms of we are the the Ummah
to da'wah. We are the Ummah that is
giving da'wah to the rest of the world.
We have taken on that job. So we
have to think in these same terminologies.
He said tell your he praised Khaled ibn
Walid.
Can you imagine if I praised one of
the most hated enemies of Islam today? I'm
not gonna mention a whole bunch names of
political figures, but they'd be like, Oh, Yousshes
lost his mind. He's lost his mind.
Or political candidates here in America and some
of the things that I think that they
are wise on and etcetera. It'd be over.
It'd be done. It'd be done. It'd be
canceled.
But this was the way of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
But what happened based upon this? When his
brother took him this message,
it struck Khaled ibn Walid deep in his
heart. Deep in his heart.
Not only because, yes, he was a wise
man.
Not only that, but to see that this
man who should hate me, who should despise
me, who should have me on his marked
list,
has praised me, and has called me intelligent
and wise, and yes I am.
So what he do? He went straight, got
on his horse and rode straight to Medina.
He wrote Martin marched into the city with
his sword hanging around his neck. That was
a symbol, you know, that like he was
he was coming he was coming submissive. Sword
is hanging on his neck. When the Muslims
saw him, they treated him how most of
us would have treated him. They snatched him
up and started beating him. And they dragged
him to the mash of the Prophet beating
him. And the Prophet
chastised him and said, Stop. What are you
doing? Leave him alone. Let him be.
Let him come and sit in front of
me.
He came and sat in front of him
and what did Khaled say?
I bear witness there's no deity but Allah.
And I bear witness the arani, the messenger
of Allah.
Then Khalid started to take off his jewelry
and all of his fancy things and he
gave them to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and said this is sadaqa for Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. This was also a habit of
new Muslims when they went into Islam. If
they had wealth they would give it to
the Muslim community.
Then he went to take his sword off
his neck and hand it to the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. The prophet told him, hold
on to that one. I have a feeling
you're going to need it. Hold on to
that one. I have a feeling you're gonna
need it. This would become the famous Khaleel
Walid that we all now know. The Khaled
Im Walid that would become the unsheathed sword
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The Khaled Im
Walid that would bring down the 2 largest
empires that the world knew at the time
and still the world has ever known. The
Roman and the Persian Empire. This is why
I say that the quality of the Muslims
is that we don't give up. We don't
give up on ourselves. We don't give up
on other people. There's always hope for anyone,
and I say this with no reservation. What
would you do? How would you think you
would behave if
someone that has harmed Muslims so fervently and
I'm again, I'm not gonna mention names because
we're putting this stuff online. But say a
political leader somewhere in the Muslim world or
somewhere here in America, that is harmed Muslim
so fervently
came out and said, That
is now your brother in faith.
That is now your brother in faith, and
you owe him the same rights as you
owe any other Muslim.
But we don't think like this. We don't
have this comprehension and this, this this understanding,
this understanding.
But we should. This is part of the
dawah of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And one of his best du'at, who is
one of my favorite companions which will be
a part of the series when we talk
about the companions of the Prophet
was Musa'aib al Umair. Musa'aib al Umair is
on my
shortlist of people I want to meet if
I make it to Jannah, insha'a Allah. That
young man did so much for Islam in
his short span of life. In his short
span of life.
He died
probably younger than 90% of the people in
this building, but look what he did.
Whenever the the the Treaty of Aqaba was
made with the people of Yathin,
The second treaty of Aqaba was made. Musa'aib
ibn Umayr, I'm not going to tell you
the long story, but he had come back
from,
Habesha. He had come back from Abyssinia because
there was some word that Mecca had accepted
Islam but it was not true.
And
the Muslims of Yathrib
asked the Prophet
to come back with them. And he said
I cannot because I have not been given
permission by Allah to do so. So they
said okay, send someone in your place as
a delegate.
Send someone in your place as a delegate
to teach us the religion and help us
to spread Islam. Who was a Muslim at
this time? Abu Bakr was a Muslim at
this time. Abdulrahman ibn Auf was a Muslim
at this time. Ali ibn Aritaleb was a
Muslim. There were so many imminent names. Some
of the Asharim were Muslim at this time.
Who did he choose?
He chose a teenage boy,
Mus'ad ibn Meir, to go to Yathrib with
him. When Mus'a'ab ibn Umayr went to Yathrib
with them, he implemented the same dawah we
saw from the Prophet When
he entered into Yathrib, he entered into a
land that was at war. There were 2
tribes, the Awus and the Khazraj were warring
with one another. Correct? Yes.
Who was the leader of the Aus and
Khazraj at the time?
Saad ibn Mu'ad
and?
Sadhid Mubayd.
Now,
I'm trying to remember which one came Muslim
first.
Sa'ibn Dehauria. Sa'ibn. When when when but when
they heard that Musa'ib was there, they saw
this because they heard of what was happening
in Mecca With the, with Islam. That it
was a problem. So when they heard this
young boy, Musa'aib, was there, Salih al Mu'an,
being the man that he was, he went
to confront him and challenge him.
And he came with his sword in his
hand and threatened him. That if you don't
leave this city I will kill you.
What did Mus'aib do? He said, Saladin Mu'ad,
you are a leader of your people.
You are someone that is very wise and
knowledgeable.
You are someone who has high regard.
Don't you think you're smart enough to sit
down and just listen to what I have
to say? And if you like it, you
can accept it, and if you don't like
it, I promise you I won't bother you
with it. I promise you I won't bother
you. Look look at this wisdom.
Sa'd ibn Mu'ad sat down, listened to the
prophet listened to Musa ibn Noomay, and by
the time he was finished he was a
Muslim.
He said, And he went back and started
converting his tribe to Islam.
Sa'd ibn Ubaydah heard about this
and it was competition. He said, if Sa'd
ibn Ubayd is good enough to be a
Muslim, I'm better than him. I should be
a better Muslim. So he went to Moosa
ibn Ubayd and accepted Islam. This is how
Yathrib became
the city of Medina. The city of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And this same Salim al Mu'adh,
I just want to show you how this
wisdom has such profound effect on the world.
Saad ibn Mu'adh, there was something said about
him that was never said about any other
human being on the planet Earth. What was
it?
2 things. Number 1, when he died, he
died shortly after the Battle of Azad.
And you should know what happened after the
Battle of Azad. We'll talk about these things,
but
the Jews of Medina had betrayed the covenant
that they made with the Prophet
They made an agreement, they broke it. So
the Prophet
surrounded them, and said that they must have
judgment put upon them. They asked for a
mediator.
They asked for a mediator and the prophet
agreed. And they
chose Sa'ed ibn Mual because he had always
had some close connection to them from
from past.
Sa'd ibn Abdul had been injured
in the Battle of Ahzab. There were some
skirmishes that took place. He was mortally wounded.
He was dying. But they put him on
a board and brought him.
And you should know what happened, what was
his ruling.
His ruling was that they would be wiped
out.
When he died, the prophet
was at his death bed,
and he started to cry. And he said
2 things about him.
He said number 1, today the throne of
Allah shook.
At the death of Sa'd ibn Mu'adh. Did
Allah love Sa'd ibn Mu'adh so much
that the throne of Allah shook on his
death.
And number 2, he said,
and the grave will squeeze every single human
being that enters it. He said, but if
Allah would save 1 person from being squeezed
in the grave, it would be sad and
wad. But it would squeeze him gently and
then let him go.
Do you see the wisdom and the hikmah
of dealing with people and never writing anyone
off?
Never giving up on anyone?
This is how we are supposed to be
as Muslims. This is our mindset.
It
doesn't matter till it's over. It doesn't matter
till it's over. Look at the the recent
history. I will mention his name because he's
dead.
What's that guy that used to run Iraq?
Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein. How much how much
crimes has he committed against the Ummah? But
towards the end of his life
they said that he accepted Islam. That he
became practicing. He started reading Quran. He
became a faithful Muslim and he died. And
what was his last words?
Laila haylalom Muhammadar Rasoolallah. We have the video.
It's there. You know what that means?
We accept that testimony
and we are supposed to make dua for
him that Allah have mercy on him.
That is how we are. That we do
not let our emotions,
we do not let our conjecture and our
personal objections
get in the way of what is right
and wrong by the sake of by the
by the religion of Allah
His affairs are with Allah. But he died
with the shahada on his tongue.
We should have prayed for him. His dunaz
was made for him. And we should make
dua that Allah grads him and forgives him
of his sins. That is the reality.
That is the reality of our lives. We
have to view things like this. And I
don't like to put personal stories into things,
but I've learned through psychology and through my
3 years of counseling people that personal stories
seem to have some effect on connecting to
people.
I had no idea about Islam, and I
hated it. I hated Islam. I hated Muslims.
I was on a life that was on
a dead end road. It was on a
road that would either end up in prison,
which it did for not as long as
it could have, or in in in death.
But here I am today, 26 years later,
I have traveled around the globe, helped so
many people come to Islam that I don't
even know. I meet them all the time.
People say that they came to Islam because
of my videos or whatnot, or they came
back to practice. And that's why I keep
doing it. I'm hoping that there's gonna be
some Adr in that for me. But right
after accepting Islam,
3 months after accepting Islam, as a matter
of fact, I accepted Islam in December,
and Well not even 3 months, two and
a half months. The end of February I
went to court for a crime that I
committed before I accepted Islam, beating a young
man up at a payphone. And I'm thinking
to myself when I go in the courtroom,
I've just accepted Islam, everybody's told me that
all my sins have been forgiven. You know,
I'm I'm golden. Allah is gonna take care
of me. Right? So I go in front
of the judge,
sentenced to 7 years.
Sentenced to 7 years. You know what kind
of death blow that was to me? I'm
thinking to myself, like what, what, what was
this? But it ended up being the most
beneficial thing for me. It ended up being
the it's probably the reason why I'm still
a Muslim today. It's probably the reason why
I'm so
strong on my religion as I am today
because I spent 5 years, almost 4 years,
studying Islam day and night, every single day,
all the time, being connected with Muslim brothers
all the time.
After getting out of prison
I was on probation for 2 years. That
was the rest of the 7 years. 5
years had to be served in prison, 2
years had to be served on probation.
One of my rules of probation was that
I must remain
employed.
I must remain employed, and for the 1st
6 months I could not get fired.
I could not get fired.
I had a job, I found a job
doing construction
in in in Saint Augustine, Florida, and this
was in,
September,
in September. And in September in Florida, it
is hot. It's very hot. And in Florida
they have to build all new builds with
cinder blocks.
That's
part of the building regulations because of hurricanes.
And I was the person who was the
mule on the construction site. Basically, I had
to carry cinder blocks
every single day. The results of it affected
me for so long, I had to have
carpal tunnel surgery on both of my hands.
And that was from 1 week, from 1
week of carrying cinder blocks every single day.
Probably like 5, 600 of them a day.
It was it was hard work.
Friday came. I started on Monday.
Friday afternoon came,
and I told my boss because we had
lunch break from 12 to 1, and, you
know, normally you had it on the job.
And I said, look, you know, I'm going
to leave. I'm not going to have lunch
today. I'm gonna go to Jummah and I'm
gonna pray. I have to go to the
mosque because I'm Muslim. And they had seemed
to be praying, so he said, you can't
leave the worksite. You can't leave the worksite.
I said, you got half the time they
would do it, they would leave and go
to a bar, and have a couple drinks,
and come back.
And he said, no you can't leave. If
you leave you're fired. You leave you're done.
So I'm left with this conundrum.
I'm sitting here thinking about this now. Do
I obey Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? I've only
been out
of prison a very short time now and
trust me, I'm in no hurry to go
back.
Do I obey Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
go to this, go to Jum'ah and risk
going back to prison? Or do I stay
here? This is a very conflicting place to
be in.
Finally I said, you know what?
Hasb'Allahuaniemawakeel.
Hasb'Allahuaniemawakeel.
Allah will take care of me. I said,
you know what? You can have your job.
I'm gone. I left and I went to
Jum'ah. I'm sitting there listening to the Khubba
thinking this might be my last free Khubba.
You know what I mean? My next one
might be back, it might be back in
prison, but so be it, for the sake
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So, I'm listening
to the Khubba,
and after I'm leaving, it was a very
small Masjid Reba in St. Augustine.
As I'm leaving,
there's a young man named Jeremy who came
to me and he said, Salaam Alaikum, Brother
Yusha, you know,
my father wanted me to come and ask
you,
do you have a job?
Because they knew I had just moved and,
and, and, and, and just gotten out of
prison, etcetera. He said, they wanted to come
to ask me if you have a job.
I said, I had one until
about an hour ago. I actually walked off
a job and quit it today. He said,
well my father has been looking for someone
to help in his pizza shop. His father
was the imam of the masjid. He said,
so would you like to have a job?
I said, yes. He said, can you start
today? I said, start right now. So I
started for him that day. He was a
Palestinian,
brother named Youssef Filat, One of the most
beautiful men I have ever met in my
entire life. He owns a pizza shop in
St. Augustine, Florida called Tony's Pizza. If you
ever go to St. Augustine, Florida, go to
Crescent Beach and go to Tony's Pizza.
Inside, he it's it's it's a very kind
of country area Crescent Beach, but when you
walk into his pizza shop, you know it's
a Muslim pizza shop. He has a big
picture of the qabi. He has dua booklets
everywhere. Like, he's very involved
in in spreading the Deen. He's very very
serious about the dua. I spent the next
2 years working under him learning the Deen,
learning the dua, things that it became such
an amazing blessing in my life, and he
ended up paying me, hiring me for double
what I was making working at the construction
job. And I never even had to tell
my probation officer I lost my job.
What I'm trying to explain to you is
that you can't give up. You can't give
up. The Muslim, the believer is someone who
through the ups, through the downs, through the
highs, through the lows, through the goods, through
the bads, we just keep going. We just
keep going. Resilience
should be one of the main qualities of
the believer,
is that we are resilient. You can put
us through whatever.
You can put us in whatever. You can
put us against whatever, and we're just gonna
keep moving, and we're just gonna keep moving.
Like Ibn Taymiyyah
when he was threatened.
He was threatened with what? He was threatened
with,
expulsion from the land, banishment?
He was threatened with imprisonment? Or he was
threatened with death? What was his response? His
response was that if you expel me from
the land,
if you expel me from the land, this
is Hijra.
Hijra for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala will take care of me. If you
imprison me, then you give me peace and
alone time with my rab. You give me
salmone and peace time with my rab. And
if you kill me, then you send me
to my final destination to meet Allah faster
than I intended. 1 either all of these
are good for the sake of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. And he said something very beautiful.
He said,
My Jannah is in my chest. He said,
how Well, you can't take that from me.
That is something that the Muslim if they
grasp that comprehension
that your Islam is here, your paradise is
here,
If you get that firm inside of you,
nothing bothers you. You can't take that from
me. You can take anything else you want
from me. You can take my home, You
can take my freedom. You can take my
food. You can you can take my life,
but you can't have what's in here. They
can't remove that from you. It's intangible. It
is your most
precious commodity. It is your most precious asset.
It is your Islam. And Imin Taymiyyah
said something to the effect and so did
his student, Ibn Uqayim,
that those who do not live like they
have Jannah in this life
do not expect to see it in the
next life. You should live like you are
a person of Jannah now.
That is the hope and the expectation we
have from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. Are we afraid we'll not make
it? Yes. I am very afraid that I
am going to be a person of hellfire,
but I am extremely hopeful
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala can have forgiveness
for even someone like me, and I live
like that. And people
see that in you, and when they see
that in you, they know there's something different
about you. They notice it. They notice things
like this. That Muslims who are happy, cordial,
I used to be asked this all the
time back in the earlier 2000, right at
not long after 9:11, And I would travel
around Thobe, you know. Sometimes I wore imam
as as well because in in Florida the
only people doing
a DAO was the.
So I'm like, let's get involved and throw
the memo on. I'm good. Let's go.
And I would be asked how how how
is it that you're
smiling? Why did you leave,
you know, your roots, your religion,
Christianity to accept this way of life that
everyone hates? And I explain it to them
because this is my happiness. This is my
joy. They would notice it in you, and
when you behave like that, people wanna know
what is your secret.
What is it that you have that I
don't have? Why is it that this person
is so happy?
So
that is perfect opportunity for to tell them
it's because of my Islam. It's because of
my attachment to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's
because of the fact that I don't care
if the whole world burns down around me.
I have Islam. I have everything that I
need. I don't need anything else. Everything else
is extra.
Anything else that Allah gives me is extra.
And if he takes it away from me,
just like Ayub, if he takes all of
it away from me, Hasma'al lahu nimawkeel, it
belongs to him anyway. He can have all
of it. Everything that he's given me belongs
to him. If he takes it back, it
belongs to him. So what? It is what
it is.
So remember brothers and sisters, it's not
about where you start the race.
It's not about where you are in the
middle of the race. It's about where you
finish.
And the only way to finish this race
properly
is that we have to keep holding on
to our faith. We have to keep carrying
on no matter what happens. No matter what
happens, we remain exactly the same. The Muslim
does not change based on situations.
We don't change based on circumstances.
We don't change based on the way people
treat us. We don't change based on the
way the world treat us. We don't become
harsh. We don't become ill. We don't become,
you know, what is the word I'm looking
for? We don't become pessimistic. We don't become
judgmental just because of the way people treat
us. We remain
consistent
across the board, and that is how we
will have success, inshallahutta'ala.
Remain consistent across the board. If you run
a marathon,
I don't care if you're a mile in
front of everybody. Marathon is 26.2
miles. You know that. Right? I don't care
if you made it to 25 miles and
you're a mile ahead of everyone. If you
stop 5 feet before the finish line,
you will lose.
You will lose. Everyone's gonna run right past
you, and you will be a loser. It
is not about who gets to the finish
line first. It's about who crosses it. You
gotta go across the finish line, and that's
the only way we will make it is
by holding on to the very, very end
in Jahmahwah'ala.
That is a lesson that we've
learned very, very recently with our brothers and
sisters in Gaza.
Look at them. Look at them. The resilience.
You know how many people are becoming Muslim
now simply because they see what the people
of Gaza are holding up against? There are
1,000 and 1,000 and 1,000 of Muslim people
becoming Muslim every single month
only because they see the resilience
of the people of Gaza, and when they
find out that the reason for their resilience
is their faith and is their religion, people
want that. They want that. They are going
through tough lives themselves. They want whatever it
is that is allowing our brothers and sisters
in Azza to still praise
Allah, to still smile, to still find a
way to have some quality of life, they
want even an ounce of that.
They want even an ounce of that. I
can't remember who said this because I haven't
slept in in in literally a whole week.
Like, I've been with my dad mostly and
just 2, 3 hours of sleep.
Maybe somebody can remember, they will tell me,
but I'll finish with this. He said, if
if the non muslims knew
what you had in your heart and the
peace that they gave you, they would send
armies to fight you over it.
You know who said who was it that
said this? You know this. You've heard this
statement before. I can't remember off the top
of it. But if they knew, if they
knew what we had, if they could see
inside this heart, they would fight you over
this.
Because this is the type of peace
that nothing else in this world can bring.
Trust me from someone who searched for it
everywhere else outside of, outside of Islam. You
can't find it. Trying to find peace
outside of Islam is like trying to go
to Houston, go to the beach, take a
shovel and try to fill the ocean with
sand.
You'll be there for your entire life, and
I don't care how much sand you put
into the ocean, you have not changed its
density one bit.
You've changed nothing. You've just displaced some of
it, but you've not changed the density of
the water, or how much volume there is
whatsoever.
This is what happens to people who try
to fill
that piece of them inside of them, that
has that that hold that is there with
anything other than Islam. Because everyone I said
I'll finish 3 times but I promise you
it's this one.
Everyone that is not a Muslim, and I
say this with no reservations, and I don't
say this in an ill mannered way, but
everyone who is not a Muslim has a
hole in their soul.
Everyone that is not a Muslim has a
hole in their
soul. Why?
Because every single human being in the loins
of Adam, Allah took us all out.
And he made us bear witness that he
is our ram. He made us every single
soul that would ever be created, Allah took
out of the loins of Adam
and made it bear witness
that he was Ram. That is the fitra
of every single human being. When they deviate
from that fitra, they leave a hole right
here. And anyone who's not a Muslim has
been not a Muslim or is there any
converts here today? No? I'm the only convert?
Okay. Ask any convert you meet and they
will tell you they had that home. They
felt it. Nothing made them happy. Nothing brought
them peace. But when they accepted Islam,
it's not as if their life came easier,
became easier. It's a lot harder because then
you become an enemy of Shafan.
But they had peace,
And that is worth more than gold. That
is worth more than gold because people are
gonna have all the money in the world
and not have peace. And they would give
you all of it if they could have
a bit of the peace that you have.
So remember that inshallah, lieutenant. It's not how
we start the race. It's how we finish
it. Let everybody see the beauty of Islam
that you have in your heart. Let them
see. No matter what you're going through, smile.
No matter what you're what what's happening to
you, try to be helpful to other people.
No matter how people have treated you, always
have hope in them inshallah.
Always leave room for them to to to
come back to righteousness, insha'Allah.
Let no one ever be written off.
Because if Allah wrote us off, we'd be
in big trouble, insha'Allah.
Okay. Now the announcements insha'Allah.
My programming.
I know we started Dara programming and then
the incident my father happened, we we we've
gotten off track.
This weekend, I'll be traveling with brother Adam
and brother Ekram. We are going to Michigan
on behalf of Masjid Saladin, so I won't
be here. Next weekend I will be in
Tampa for for a program that I've already
been committed to, so I won't be here.
So I don't want to do
start the program and then stop it for
2 weeks, and then we have Eid coming
up, so that that could be on Sunday
inshallah, so we wouldn't be able to do
it then. So the plan, the goal,
the last week of June, which is the
26th,
I think is the Wednesday, the very last
weekend of June, I will officially
fully robustly start my programs, Insha'Allah.
On Wednesday, the last Wednesday of June, we
will start the series called The Promised Ones.
This will be on the Companions Promised Paradise,
their life, their story, their attributes, and then
we will add a few more companions in
before we go to another,
another series, Insha'Allah. Please bring the youth. This
is for the youth. This is for the
whole community, but especially for the youth. They
need to know that the people they should
be looking up to are these
people. These are the people whom they should
idolize and and look up to and try
to emulate. Not these celebrities and and sports
stars and and and musicians and all of
this. This is especially for the youth but
it's for the whole community. That's on Wednesdays
between Maghrib and Isha.
On Wednesdays between Maghrib and Isha, and we'll
keep this going throughout the year. And when
the time changes, we'll just make it after
Isha, when when Isha becomes very early. Then
on Sunday mornings, we will get back into
our robust Dawah programs
inshallah
because I will be here for an entire
5 weeks after that. And then I go
to the UK for one weekend, then I'm
back for another 4 or 5 weeks. So
there'll be some consistency to the program inshallah.
So we will start that at the end
of,
the last week of June, inshallah. I'll keep
announcing it because I know you're gonna forget,
but we'll keep announcing it. The flyers will
go out, etcetera, so on and so forth.
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