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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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  • This is honor

    This is honor
    Nov 30 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, just met my dear friend, Tamur, from California. He teaches… he's a software engineer, worked for Verizon all his life, senior professional, also teaches Arabic grammar. I've been here in Basin-Zabu Sharif, and so on and so on, he said something wonderful. He said that, trillions of people who live in this world, the time Allah created this world, trillions of people, and out of all those trillions, Allah honored one. And that one is here, in these beautiful mercies. Muhammad Rasool Allah. SubhanAllah. And I said to him, I said, look, this is honor. Because for the last 1500 years, and it so happens that this is the 1500th year of, from the beginning of the revelation, 2025. He said, for 1500 years, people are coming here. Look at these people here. They're coming here. All of these people, thousands upon thousands of them, not one is related to him, not one knows him, not one has seen him, but they all love him. Now this is honor. This is honor in a lifetime. And this honor comes for one reason only, and that is, that the person lives his life for one reason only. That reason is to please Allah . And that is, that the person lives his life for one reason only. This is the lesson we learn from Rasool Allah life. To simplify our lives. People say, declutter your life, declutter your mind, simplify your life. You know what's the best decluttering? The best simplification is to understand that there is only one thing to do in life. And that is? To make pleasing Allah your only goal. No other goal. Have only one goal. And that goal is to please Allah . Just one goal. To please Allah . And if you have this one goal, everything else falls into place. Allah provides us. We get stuck with rizq. We get stuck with, you know, how's my job and I'm making so much money and I have, my needs are expanding and I need to make more money and what will happen to me and this and that and the other. None of that matters. Because Allah promised. If He created you, He will fulfill your needs. And if you don't, then you will be in a state of ! not created the jinn and the insan for anything other than my worship. Allah did not create us to run around behind food and this and that and shelter. Allah created us to worship you. All the rest will come. We make reasonable effort. I'm not saying don't do anything. But do something. the Torah decrees it. It is happening because Allah decreed. If you got sustenance based on the amount of effort you make, then the head-loading coolie, the illiterate neighbor who was carrying stones and bricks on his head at a construction site would be the highest paid person in the land. If you got sustenance based on your education, the president of a university probably would be the highest paid person in the land. And I can go on endlessly with this. You will find that that's not the case. That is not the case. Yes, you effort, you make some effort, but Allah gives. Allah said that He gives and all the people need to take sustenance but most people don't understand. Let's just say, it is my Lord, my Lord, who expands your sustenance or constrains it but most people don't understand. Let us be among the people who do understand. Because we have been told this. What is there not to understand? Because we have been informed. We have been informed in the best possible way, which is by the Kalam of Allah SWT himself. How do we know this? Because Allah said so. Let us look to that. And let us make that our creed in life. That I will work to please Allah. That everything I do, there is only one question I need to answer. Does it please Allah? Because if you do the thing for the right reason, believe me, everything else follows. Do it for the right reason and everything else follows. That is the whole thing. Make sure the right reason, the reason is right. The rightest of right reasons is to please Allah SWT. We ask Allah SWT to be pleased with us and never to be distressed. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
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  • Uhud is witness

    Uhud is witness
    Nov 29 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ala al-sharafi al-anbiya wal mursaleen, Muhammadun Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibu salam. Sashliman kaseeran kaseeran. My brothers and sisters, I am seeing and looking at a view which, Allah grant all of us, is the view that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam himself used to see when he was in his masjids, when he was in his home, when he was in his city of Badin al-Barawarah, and that is the site of the Mount Ravaad. The Mount Ravaad is a very important historical place in Islam. This is Mount Ravaad. This is the mountain which has been mentioned in the hadith many, many times. It is the mountain about which Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, the mountain of Ravaad loves us and we love Ravaad. This is the mountain which gave shelter to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the battle of Ravaad when he was injured and he fell and they took him up the side of the mountain into a little defile where he was sheltered from the enemies. This is the mountain which, was witnessed to the reason for the defeat after the victory. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had commanded a set of sahaba to, a set of archers from the sahaba to be on a small hillock that is adjacent to the Mount Ravaad to cover a passage that is between that hillock and the mountain, and prevent the enemy from entering the mountain. And prevent the enemy forces, especially enemy cavalry from attacking the Muslims through that passage because that would have brought them right at the back of the Muslim army. But unfortunately the sahaba who were there disregarded the instruction and command of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Because Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had commanded them very clearly and said, do not leave your post even if you, whether you see us winning or losing, even if you see the crows and vultures eating from our bodies, do not leave your post. What happened was that with the initial victory, the Muslim forces were even into the camp of the disbelievers and the enemy, and they were collecting booty. When these archers on the hill, they saw that, their intention changed and they said, well, the instruction of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, his command does not apply anymore because we have won the battle, the battle is over. The command applied only while the battle was happening and now that the battle is over, we don't need to obey the command. And they left. And when they left and they came down to collect booty, they left. And when they came down to collect the booty, that was exactly the time that Khalid bin Walid bin Al-Ahmad bin waiting for. And he came and he, he came and he, he attacked the Muslim army from behind. And the worst nightmare of any infantry is to be caught between the enemy in front and the enemy cavalry behind. And that's exactly what happened. The result of all that was of course disastrous. And the Muslims lost the battle. And in that battle, more than 70 of the Sahaba, the blessed companions of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, were Shaheed. They were killed. And among them, some of the greatest of them, Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib radhiallahu anhu, Musa bin Umair radhiallahu anhu, Abdullah bin Rawah radhiallahu anhu, and others who were among the greatest of the Sahaba. All of them. And the rest of them died in that, in the battle of Arhat, thanks to this one act of disobedience of the Sahaba. As I mentioned, the Sahaba had not rebelled. They didn't rebel. They were not, they had not left Islam. They had not stopped believing in Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. All they did was, they took a command of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and interpreted that in the light of their own convenience. They interpreted that in the way that was convenient for them to interpret it. And that was the biggest mistake they made it, that that they made, and which resulted in this great calamitous defeat of the Muslims. My brothers and sisters, the reason for saying this is, I remind myself and you, this is exactly what we do today. We take the command of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we take his blessed sunnah, and then we take the liberty which we don't have of interpreting that to suit ourselves. And we say, oh, but you see, this is, doesn't apply anymore. We are living in the 21st century, and that was 7th century, and we are living in America or Canada or somewhere, and that was in medieval and pre-medieval Arabia. And all sorts of taweelat and all sorts of taweelat, and all sorts of taweelat, and all sorts of taweelat, and all sorts of ridiculous explanations, none of which pay attention to the fact that this was the command of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. It is not open for us to interpret it and to change it, and to choose to follow and not to follow. I ask Allah ...
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  • Sunrise in Madina

    Sunrise in Madina
    Nov 28 2025
    https://youtu.be/v2Wa6C1cdgM Auto-generated transcript: As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Muhammadu Rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Faham abadu. Brothers and sisters, my dear brother and friend Atif. Atif Nasir from Kuwait. He told me, do go to the top of the roof after fajr. The sunrise is amazing. I didn't realize how true, what exactly he meant. Because when I come here, it's like being on another planet. Suhara is so incredibly beautiful. I cannot even imagine. I cannot even describe it. The roof is beautiful. It has carpets everywhere. And I was hoping to get a sighting of the Mount Rakhud. But that looks like it might not happen because in the direction of Ahud, there is a, the roof is not completely open. They have a sort of wall and a roofed veranda all around. So, on the roof you are open to the sky for part of it, part of it, but you can also shelter under the veranda if you need to. But okay, alhamdulillah. What I can see is so incredibly beautiful. It's cold. Madina is cold in the morning. So, but it's not badly cold. It's not bitterly cold. It's a very, very beautiful scene. Suha Allah. Waiting for the sun to rise. Inshallah. And it is unbelievable. I was going to talk about Mount Rakhud with the picture. But I guess that is not the case. I guess that is not to be in this particular video. But Inshallah. I can still talk about the mountain. I guess without the mountain being in the picture. I'm literally within sighting distance of the Mount Rakhud. And I will take a picture of the Mount Rakhud and show it to you. Before I go there, you can see here, this minar, which is a pointed one, which you can see there. Oops. That went off quite fast. Okay, that one. That pointed one is the minar, which is the one that is in front of me. And that is the one that is in front of me. And that is the one that is in front of me. This is the minar, which is next to the Gubbat Al-Hudra, the green dome of the best brother of Rasul Allah . So that is the minar of the dome. Now, this is the roof. So I was talking about the mount of Ahad. The mount of Ahad is, The Mahantra Vahad is, as I said, I'm literally sort of a very short walk away from the Mahantra Vahad. From where I'm standing, if the built-up area was not there, I would be able to see the Mahantra Vahad very, very clearly. That is actually my intention of coming up here. But, khair inshaAllah. The Mahantra Vahad is the Mahantra of history. It's the Mahantra which knows the history of the Muslims. It is the Mahantra about which Rasulullah said, the Mahantra of Vahad loves us and we love Vahad. And so that is the importance of Vahad is clear from many, many Ahadiths where Vahad is mentioned both literally as well as allegorically. For example, goodness, like the goodness of the, as much as the Mahantra Vahad, good deeds, the size of the Mahantra Vahad, a date seed, given in sadaqa by somebody who is poor. And that one date, so that one date seed, all that this person has and gives that sadaqa, Allah will make it grow like the mountain of Vahad made of gold and so forth. Many Ahadith, alhamdulillah, which are, which talk about the fazilat and the position, the prominence of this mountain in the seerah of Rasulullah . The mountain of Vahad is the mountain which gave shelter to Rasulullah in the battle of Vahad. When the Muslims had lost the battle, the mountain of Vahad was witness to the reason they lost the battle. After having won it, the mountain of Vahad, those that Rasulullah had given this instruction, this command, that nobody must leave, that the archers must not leave their post, until he commanded them to do that. But they left their post. And they left their post not because they had suddenly become bhaagi or rebels, or they stopped believing, in Islam and believing in Rasulullah . None of that. They left their post for a, for a reason, may Allah forgive us, the kind of reason that we give ourselves, which is that we take, we take one of the Ahadith, we take one of the command of Rasulullah , and we say that, oh you see, but logically that command is not valid anymore, because the reason for the command is, gone, and therefore I need not obey that command. And that's exactly what the archers said. Those among them who saw the others, the other Muslims collecting booty, they said, well, the command of not giving the mountain really applied while the battle was going on. But now the battle is over, and the booty is being collected by people, and if we don't go, and if we don't exert ourselves, and we ...
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