Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

Mirza Yawar Baig
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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

Thought share about the application of Islamic belief and ethics in our modern pluralistic society. The "How", for those who understand "Why". And the "Why" for those who need to understand the reason.

  1. 11 HR AGO

    Culture of Islam

    --- *This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. * --- Alhamdulillah, O Lord of the worlds and peace and blessings be upon the most honored of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions, and he has accepted many many. So, we looked at the first of the elements of change that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, implemented in order to transform his community from being the most oppressed, the weakest to becoming the strongest and the rulers of their world of the time. And that first element was to change how we view ourselves. The reason for that obviously is that everything comes from the individual. All change has to begin with me. Anyone who thinks that the way to change the world is to change somebody else and I remain the same way, no, doesn't work. Doesn't work in any field. If I want change to happen in my environment, that change has to begin from me. And therefore, my identity, do I see myself as within quotes a ruler or a king? And I don't mean that literally, I mean in the terms of an attitude of like a king, meaning that I don't obey anyone, but everyone else must obey me. But this doesn't work because this is not who we are. Allah, the Almighty sent us as His Ibad, as His slaves. We are here in this world to obey Allah in the way of the Rasul, peace be upon him, who showed us how to obey Allah. Just think about that. Think about this. We just prayed Salatul Maghrib. We prayed three rakat. If I ask you, why did you pray three rakat? Why not four? Why not two? Why not one? What is the answer? If I ask you, why did you pray in this way? Why do you start the Salah with Tagmir, the Harimah? Why do you recite Surah Al-Fatihah first? Why do you recite Surah Al-Fatihah in every rakat? Isn't it enough to say it once? The answer to all of these questions is only one. Because this is the way Rasulullah A.S. prayed, period. Why, why, why, why, why? Because this is how Rasulullah A.S. did that. Actually, I remind myself is the same principle applies for everything in life. It is not restricted to Salah. Salah is the example which shows me how I should do business. Salah shows me how I must handle my family. Salah shows me if I'm a ruler of a country, how I must rule my country. If I'm a judge in a court, Salah shows me how I must give my rulings and my judgments in the court and so on and so on. If I'm a business person, business man or woman, Salah shows me how to do business. And that's the reason for studying the Seerah. The Salah is the example. We do it the way of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Then it becomes accepted by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Then it becomes full of Khair and Malakha for all concerned, including myself. We go to the second part of the transformation that Rasulullah A.S. brought about, and that is a transformation in culture. We start with the individual, then we go into the surrounding of the the surroundings in which the individual lives and works and functions. And that surrounding is called the culture. The culture was to move from discrimination, from high and low to equality, genuine equality. Everyone equal before Allah. This is what Islam brought in Islam. There is no superior or inferior to the extent the Sahaba came to the Prophet, some of them were people in their travels. They had gone to the courts of different kings and so on. And they said, yes, if you permit us, we would like to make such that to you as the way of greeting you, because this is how the kings of Rome and Persia and other places. This is their way that when people come into the court, they are there, the demand there, they are commanded to make such that to put their hand on the ground in front of the king. So some of them just lie down flat on their face. And you deserve it more than any of them, because you are not only our ruler,

    26 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    Stopping the Dhikr of Allahﷻ

    --- *This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. * --- In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. May His peace and blessings be upon His honored messengers. Muhammad was the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and upon his family and his companions, peace and blessings be upon them. My brothers and sisters, Abu Ghulayr reported in a hadith which we have all heard many times that Rasulullah said, Allah has caravans of angels who have no work but to follow gatherings of remembrance, gatherings of Zikr of Allah. When they find such gatherings in which there is remembrance, they sit with them and some of them surround the others with their wings until the space between them and the heavens is covered. When they disperse, they ascend to the heavens and Allah asked them, although He knows better than them, from where have you come? They say, we came from your slaves on the earth who are glorifying you, declaring your greatness and oneness, praising you and asking from you. Allah says, what do they ask from me? The angels say, they ask for your paradise. Allah says, have they seen my paradise? They say, no. Allah says, what if they were to see my paradise? They say, they seek your protection. Allah says, from what do they seek my protection? They say, from your hellfire, our Lord, our Rabb. Allah says, have they seen my hellfire? They say, no. Allah says, what if they were to see my hellfire? They say, they ask for your forgiveness. Allah says, I will pardon them, give them what they request and grant them protection. They say, our Rabb, there is one among them, a simple slave who happened to pass by and sit there along with them. Allah says, I will also grant him pardon for whoever sits with these people will not suffer misery. And this is in Bukhari, Sayyid Bukhari and Sayyid Muslim, Muttafakoon Aalayh. May Allah have mercy on us and may Allah grant us the tawfiq to do what benefits us and to save us from what does not benefit us. And grant us to do what pleases Allah and save us from what does not please Allah. My brothers and sisters, think about this. If you want to learn swimming, what do you need? You need a place to swim. You need a swimming pool. You need a lake. You need a river. You need a body of water. If you want to learn to play cricket, what do you need? You need a cricket field. If you want to learn tennis, you need a tennis court. Right? If you want to learn golf, you need a golf course or at least minimum you need nets for practice and then of course you need a course. If you want to become a doctor, you need a hospital. You can be anything, to prepare yourself for anything. You need a place. Where do you go if you want to learn to become a human being? In insan. Insaniyat in Arabic and Urdu is not a term which is biological. Insan does not mean the mammal who walks on his hind legs. Insan is somebody with a character, somebody with the qualities which bring him close to Allah. Now, where do you go to become an insan? This is what Prophet Muhammad did with Masjid and Abu Ayyub Sharif. People like to talk about the Jamia Muhammadiyya. They say the sofa was a university. But my submission is that there was no such thing as Jamia Muhammadiyya. There was no sofa, was not a university. Rasulullah was not teaching a curriculum with a syllabus for a certain period of time. He did not do any dastarbandi, did not qualify people and call them alims or something. The people who came to Rasulullah and benefited the most from him were the people who spent time in his sohba, in his company. And they did not just spend time in his company by just being bodily present and their minds somewhere else. They were there consciously. They were there with great shaukh, with great love. They were there with great desire to learn and to imbibe from him every little thing which seemed,

    19 min

  3. 2 DAYS AGO

    Advice to students – #2

    ---*This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. *--- My brothers and sisters, second advice is to be thankful, is to express gratitude. How many people here? When you go home, you know that there is going to be a good tasty hot meal ready for you. Yes? Who cooks your, who cooks the meal? You? Your dad or your mom? Fantastic. Who cooks the meal for you? Your mom, alright. The older ones? Who cooks the meal? Your wife. Now let me ask you a question. How many of you thank your mom and say thank you very much for this food? How many of you thank your wife? You thank your wife? You understand what I am saying? It's very important to thank. And that is why Rasoolullah SAS said, The one who has not thanked Allah, who has not thanked the people. The one who has not thanked the people, has not thanked Allah. Sometimes we feel, oh but why do I have to say thank you, thank you, thank you all the time? Don't they know? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in surat Ibrahim, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, the announcement was made and said to them that, the one who thanks me, I will increase my blessing. So if you say about your wife or about your mother, why do I need to thank, why do I need to thank my dad? Doesn't he know? But doesn't Allah know? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Who knows me is the best of all. He even knows what's in your heart. So why is he saying the one who thanks me, I will... Why? Because he doesn't know? Allah is showing us that to thank Allah, to thank is our job. It's not because they know or they don't know. To thank is my position as the recipient of the blessing that I must thank. Whether the other person knows or does not know is not my concern. My concern is I must thank. So make this an absolute wonderful thing for yourself and say I will thank. Gratitude is a fantastic thing. They did a study in the University of California with people, patients of chronic depression. So these are people on anti-depressant medicine and they are like suicidal almost. They are so deep into depression. The experiment they did was the control group, they gave them what they call the gratitude diary. They gave them a notebook and they said every morning when you wake up, write down 10 things that you are grateful for. 10 things. And they said you can write the same 10 things every day, doesn't matter, but write 10 things. So for example, I am grateful that I have eyesight. Do we think about this sometimes? Did you thank Allah, say, Alhamdulillah, I have eyesight? Did you say, Alhamdulillah, when I stand up, get up from my bed and I go to the bathroom, I am not... I can walk steadily, I don't fall down? We don't even think about that because Allah is made us strong. But you know this is a major problem, you know this is a problem which if you live long enough when you get older, this is one of the first things that happens to you, you lose balance. Doctors who do geriatric care, doctors who care for elderly people, you know what they tell them? They say do whatever you want but don't fall. Don't fall, make sure you don't fall. So don't try and... When you put on your trousers, don't stand and put... sit down, sit down and then put your trousers on. Don't stand. You say, I did it all my life. Yes, all your life you did that, but all your life you were not 70, you were not 80. Now you are 70 and 80. Sit down. Do not fall. Don't stand and wear your shoes. Sit down and wear your shoes. Yes? So when you are now in a stage where you are not 70 and 80, Abdullah you are strong, you can stand on one leg and do stuff, should you not thank Allah for this? We race up and down stairs because the knees are good. You live long enough, a day will come when arthritis will come. And with arthritis the cartilage in the between the knees, between the... in the joint will go. And then you have bone on bone. Should we not thank Allah? Alhamdulillah, my knees are okay. Alhamdulillah,

    21 min

  4. 3 DAYS AGO

    Advice to students – #1

    ---*This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. *--- My brothers and sisters, the way I propose to deal with our session this evening is, I want to speak to you a few minutes about the purpose, why do we exist, why are we there in this world, what are we here to do? And then some advice and the advice is titled, Advice to Students, but it's not necessarily restricted to students. It's advice to anyone who wants good advice. And then we'll open the floor to questions and you are welcome to ask me anything you like and I will answer anything I like. I remind myself and you that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala created us for two reasons, two purposes. One, He mentioned that as an individual purpose for each individual human being, man or woman. And the second one, He mentioned it as a collective purpose for the Muslim Ummah. The individual purpose, which is a purpose for every single man or woman, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala said, وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْوُدُونَ Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala said, I have not created the jinn or the insan, the human beings, for anything other than my worship. He told us, Jalla Jalaluhu, that He created us only and only to worship Him. Now worship is the formal worship, Salatul Isha for example, like what we did. And worship also is in the meaning of obedience. So when we say our purpose is only to worship Allah, it does not mean that we have to spend twenty-four hours in the masjid, in salah. It means that we spend twenty-four hours of our life in obeying Allah, in every aspect of our life. So just like I worship Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala in the salah, how do you worship? How do I worship in the salah? Why did we pray four rakats of salah in Isha? Why not three? Why not twenty? Why? Why four? Why did we pray three rakats in Nahr? Yes. Because Allah wanted us to pray four, how do you know that? Yes. Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, this is called a virtual handshake, shake my hand. Say that, say that, like this. Correct, okay. From the sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Rasulullah sallahu alaihi wa sallam said, sallu kamara ayatumun i'usalli, he said, pray as you have seen me pray. These four rakat of Isha we prayed just like Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam prayed. Now please understand that this prayer and this methodology and this philosophy of following Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam exactly as he did it is not restricted to the prayer. The prayer is the example which shows us what we must do in every aspect of our lives. So just like I prayed Isha the way Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam prayed Isha, how must I eat my food, the way Rasulullah sallalahu alaihi wa sallam ate his food, how must treat my parents the way Rasulullah sallaw office treated his parents and his elders, how must I treat my children the way Rasulullah sallaw house treated his children, How must I treat my friends and my brothers and sisters? How must I do business? If I'm the ruler of a country, how must I rule the country? If I'm the commander of an army, how must I command the army? If I'm working for somebody as an employee, how should I work? And that is the reason Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam A life which is so comprehensive that it covers every aspect of human life So whatever is in your life, if I want to search for an answer, look in the life of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam So individual purpose, Allah said I have not created the human beings and the jinn for any purpose other than to obey me, other than to worship me Then Allah gave us a collective purpose And the collective purpose Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Why? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, You are the best of people Not because you are Hyderabadi or you are Sudanese or you are Somali or you are Masri or something, no You are the best of people because you have bee

    25 min

  5. 4 DAYS AGO

    [Urdu] Why will more go into Jannah from the earlier times

    ---*This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. *--- Allah says in the Quran... . First of all the consciousness is drawn on the Shoulders of our rejecters. Allah says that all the companions of the Prophet, go to heaven. Yes, that's right. MashaAllah, everyone will go. And those who are after him, those who follow him, those who follow him, So that if a pharise is made of all the people of that time, then the world, as it is getting bigger and bigger than the time of the Prophet, then the people will go further and further from that pharise. So that the number of people will increase, the number of people will decrease, and then the number of people will decrease, and so on. So that if we reach one point, then it is enough. So, God willing, the people who go will go, but comparatively. And the reason for that is that, although the concept has been given since the time, but since the time there is no year or saint. That is because it happens that the people who were close to the time of the Prophet, they were going to walk on the religion with the same determination. Yes, that's right. And as we are getting further away, the world is getting more and more attached to us. Now see, you talk, I will think about it myself. Yes, of course. That one day you are taking, in 24 hours, that who do we talk more about, the world or the religion? It's a dumb question. We talk about the world day by day. How much did you earn, how much did you lose, what happened in politics, what happened to Donald Trump, he came, he didn't come, what is happening in the share market. And this is happening, that is happening. And we don't think that how much did the Prophet talk about in the religion, how many people were present in it, how many times did he ask for forgiveness, how many times did he ask for prayers, did the prayers get answered or not, and after that, did we read the Sunnah or not, then we say, did we read it or not, how much was our recitation of the Quran today, and how much is our average today, first it was average, and today it is average, so did it get fulfilled or not, nobody asks all this. Similarly, mention about heaven, mention about hell, so that we are afraid of heaven, so that it is cultivated, so that we are trained, and mention about the day of judgement, so that we are afraid of it and we can live our lives. All this mention, these days, it has become a tradition, that if there is an event, a function, then we call someone, then the scholar, the scholar comes, we say, we listen, otherwise it doesn't happen. So that the services in the mosques, after Isha prayer, after the prayer of the Holy Quran, after the prayer of the Holy Quran, the service that is done, we sit in that service with so much care, and care, that after 5-7 minutes, your brother has done a lot, today he has done a lot of work. After 10-15 minutes, oh, oh, how can we say 15 minutes is the remembrance of Allah? And the one who is complaining about the 15 minutes, he sits for 2 hours, and after the basketball match, he watches the match very easily, and he watches it at 2 in the night. And after a soccer match, he is losing in Qatar, the world cup is being played, here in America, he sits at 2-3 in the night, and watches the match for 2 hours very easily. No one complains that why don't you finish the 5 minutes? Take the ball, put it inside the goal, finish it, and go home. We sit, it is a useless thing, and there is no point in watching it. We sit, and take the name of Allah, in 10 minutes, the back starts aching, in 15 minutes, their senses start to go off. And these people, this is a curse, a curse of evil, we don't consider it that, we consider it normal. We consider that the one who makes statements, and doesn't get tired of it, he is mad. What disease do you have that you are talking about Allah? No one thinks that, why did you say that? Who is he talking about?

    14 min

  6. 5 DAYS AGO

    Focus on the purpose

    --- *This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. * --- It is a great pleasure and honor to be here. The first time I met them was I think almost 22 years ago. When they were studying in the Al-Humza Karia. And Alhamdulillah we is their father. Dr. Mirza Baudin is a friend of mine. I am also from Al-Haidur. So we go back many years. Alhamdulillah. And may Allah enable me and through me whoever this message reaches to participate in this work of this deen. Because this is not a work for anybody else. It's for ourselves. And Alhamdulillah Allah gives us this understanding that it's for us that inshallah we will try and do it to the best of our ability. What I want to say is basically I am reminding myself. I don't think any of you would need reminders from me. I want to begin with a question. My question to myself and to you is what is Islam? How would you discuss Islam? If somebody comes to you who does not know anything and says what is Islam? What is the answer? What is Islam? What is it? One word one... What is Islam? It is the truth. Alhamdulillah. Good answer. Reveal way of leading one's life. Reveal way of leading one's life. Right? It is the truth of course but this is a way of leading your life. Islam is not a philosophy. Islam is not a theory. Islam is a practice. There is only one way of learning Islam by doing Islam. Obviously I am not saying don't read the book. How to do you read? That's how you know. No, that is not necessary. But unless I practice... The reason I am saying this is... Allah SWT said... So my question is as an ustad or as myself, I am reading Quran. And I am teaching Quran to the children. Right? So what is my focus? What is my focus when I am teaching the Quran? What is the focus when I am reading Quran? My focus will be the Tajbees of the student. Maqari Sahib... He is not able to do it. He is deciding it from the correct place. In terms of if there is a... Is it visible? Meaning audible in the sound. If I am teaching some Qiraat then is it... You know, is it harsh or is it tough or whatever it is. But... For example, if the child is reciting... So as the ustad and listening to that, did he say Rahman or did he say Rahman? Was it Ha or Ha? Everything is correct. It should be done. But did we stop for a second and say, very good. Now tell me, when you recited this, what happened to your heart? Can we ask? Do we reflect on it ourselves? I just recited Ayatul Kursi. What was the effect on my heart? Now if you are not doing that, then this Ayatul Surah Al-Anfal which I recited for you... Who will do it? Allah did not say about Tajweed. That doesn't mean Tajweed is not important. My point is Allah is putting the emphasis and telling us what is really important is that when Allah is mentioned, something must happen to your heart. When Allah's Kalam is recited and when you see the Ayat around you, something must happen to your heart. There should be a reflection in your heart. Is it happening or not? Is it happening or not happening? Trey? I am saying that what we teach, the orientation of that teaching. What is your purpose? So which is my second question. You are teaching here in this... May Allah bless all of you and all those who are associated with Darussalam. May Allah bless you. My first visit here and Alhamdulillah this is for me in terms of what I have been dreaming and talking for now literally 25 years. I am seeing that here happening in action. Alhamdulillah. So all of you are here. My question is very simple. What describes for me your product? The product of this comes out. What is that product? Quickly. What are you making here? I come from a corporate background. I am a corporate consultant. I work with many multiple corporations. The corporations, multinational corporations rule the world. Not politicians, not Donald Trump. It is the multinational corporations and the billionaires who own them who run this world. As we speak,

    31 min

  7. 6 DAYS AGO

    Purpose of knowledge

    --- *This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. * --- In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the Universe. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and upon his family and companions. Tasliman kaseem kaseeha. Many years ago, I was in Saudi Arabia in Dammam, and I went to meet a very famous alim there, who I had been following and learning from for many years. So I met with Maziz, I met him, and it was about Salat al-Isha, so you know around 8, 7, 8 p.m. And he said to me, if you're free after Salat al-Isha, please come home to meet, it is a great honor, the alim is inviting me to his house. I went to meet him, and then guess what time I left? After Salat al-Fajr. And as we left, he gave me a parting advice. And his advice he gave me was, the next time you meet an alib, shake his hand and rub. So I came here to do a door of Darussalam, and then we spent an hour with the teachers. Now I am here with you, and Allah knows best what is ahead of me. Hande Allah. I'm delighted to see all of you, maashada, may Allah bless all of you, and grant you his khashiyya in your heart. The hasil of ilm, please understand this very clearly, because when we are in madrasah, we get stuck with the books, kitab, kitab, kitab, kitab, kitab. And we forget, not deliberately, but we forget the purpose of all that. Imam Ahmad bin Hambal Ram to Lali had a friend called Bishar al-Hafi. Now Imam Ahmad himself was so tremendously rigorous about knowledge, that one day somebody asked him to do istambadul akhkam, how many ahadis, and we are here talking about the dakhri, the ilm-ul-rijal, the whole works, right? How many ahadis should a person know? Imam Ahmad did not reply. So the man started to push him, and guess what number he started with? Did he say, is it enough to know ten ahadis, enough to know a hundred? No, he said, is it sufficient to know ten thousand ahadis? Ten thousand ahadis memorized with the huchens of the writers. Imam Ahmad said no. He said twenty, he said no. He said thirty, he said no. He said forty, he said no. The man went all the way to a hundred and twenty thousand ahadis memorized, and Imam Ahmad says maybe, right? Same deed. So one day somebody asked Imam Ahmad, he said, you have this great rigor with regard to how many ahadis a person should have memorized and so on and so on, but your friend Bishr al-Hafi, Rahatul alaih, you call him your ustad. But he does not know hundred and twenty thousand ahadis. How is he a uttab? Imam Ahmad said something which I want to leave with all of you, and I ask Allah to put in my heart. Imam Ahmad said Bishr has the husul, he has the hassle of the ilm. He has the essence of the knowledge, he has the purpose of knowledge. He said what is that? He said khashyatullah. He said khashyatullah. Right? So remember this, khashyatullah. Purpose of your learning here is not to become an alin, not to become a fazil, not to get a bachelor's, a master's, not to make heads of the foran, not to be an expert in usul al-ahadis or whatever. All of these are zimn and all of these are things that will happen to you in matter of course as you go through the curriculum, your purpose to be here is to have the khashya of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in your heart. Now question is, how do I know if I have the khashyat of Allah or not? Wait, she agrees, I should have khashya of Alhamdulillah. So now do you have it or not? Do I have it or not? One of the things that I teach is six sigma quality and six sigma is a quality standard. For example, if I ask you, I'm doing a business, I'm manufacturing something that is 99% perfect. Is that good or bad? 99% perfect, good, right? 99% is 10,000 mistakes per million. Six sigma is 3.4 mistakes per million. That is the difference from 10,000 to 3.4. The man who invented that, he said,

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  8. 20 NOV

    How to keep yourself safe from challenges of society

    --- *This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. * --- In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honor of the Prophets and Messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and upon his family and companions, and he has accepted many, many. Let's read the next one. We have this challenge in this society, that challenge in this society, there is this temptation, this fitna, that fitna, and so on and so on and what shall I do? How can I keep myself safe from the different fitna, different tests, different temptations in this society? So I remind myself in you to keep yourself safe is very simple. It is not, not difficult. So first of all, stop, stop saying it is difficult. It is not difficult. Right? You hear this all the time, oh it is so tough, so difficult. No, it's not difficult. Who told you it is difficult? Very easy. It is very easy as long as I remember and remind myself that one day if I live in this place, Rockford, and I die here, then they will bring my body to this Masjid, and Sheikh Harah, abidullah, he will read my Janaza. Yes? If I am not here, if I am somewhere, some Masjid somewhere or some place, somebody will read my Salatul Janaza and I will be in my cover. And I will be alone before Allah. If I remember that, then there is no fitna which is so difficult that I cannot overcome, with fitna. I have to ask myself, see that's why Allah SWT mentioned something in Suratul Alaq at the end, one small ayah. Alam ya alam bi an la Allah ya ra. The Azbab and Nuzul of this ayah, this ayah came for Abu Jahl. Allah said does he not know that Allah is watching? Alam ya alam bi an la Allah ya ra. Does he not know that Allah is seeing? But we know the Kalamullah, Azbab and Nuzul, alhamdulillah, it comes for a reason there, but that applies to all of humanity till the end of time. So Alam ya alam bi an la Allah ya ra is not only for Abu Jahl, it's for me, it's for you, for everyone. I must remind myself, am I not aware that Allah is watching? So if I am doing something good, I am doing Tilawatul Quraar, am I aware Allah is watching? Yes, Allah is watching, alhamdulillah. But if I am committing some sin, may Allah protect us from committing sin, but if I am committing some sin, I am doing some gheeba, I am doing some namim, I am doing something, whatever it is. Alam ya alam bi an la Allah ya ra. Am I not aware that my Rabb is watching Jalla Jalaluh? Then how can I do gheeba about my brother? How can I play some politics and try to put this one down and that one up? How can I do that? When my Rabb is watching Jalla Jalaluh? This religion of ours, the Islam, this is not the name of a philosophy. This is not hadhi, laisa falsafa, laisa nazariya. It is the religion, the way, the way of Muhammad ﷺ. This is not a philosophy, it is not something that you know. And that is why this deen is about practice, amal. Like I gave you the example yesterday, I think, there is somebody who knows about Judo. He knows everything, how Judo started, who was the first, and so on and so on. And maybe he has a whole book of Judo which he memorized completely. Then he goes on the street, somebody holds him up, he gets into some fight and he is flat on the floor, gone. You say, Asif Khan, you know so much about Judo. That is the problem. He knows about Judo, he does not know Judo. He does not know how to fight, he knows about it. Same thing, if I know about Islam, but I never practice Islam, I never pray, but you ask me about Salah, I will give you a three-hour lecture on Salah. All the principles, all the rules, and the Sunnah, and the Fadha, and everything else, if you leave it, this happens, that Alhamdulillah, MashaAllah, you know all this about Salah. But the most important is, I am going this way. Where are you going? No, I have got some work, by shop.

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